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Lockheed Martin to Upgrade PAC-3 Missiles for US, Allied Forces
2018-12-26 Read More...
The United States and allied military forces will upgrade their missile defense capabilities under a $1.8 billion contract for production and delivery of Lockheed Martin Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) and PAC-3 Missile Segment

First M-345 Production Aircraft Performs Maiden Flight
2018-12-26 Read More...
The first M-345 HET (High Efficiency Trainer) production basic/advanced trainer aircraft successfully performed its maiden flight at Venegono Superiore airport (Varese, Italy) with pilots Quirino Bucci and Giacomo Iannelli

Russian Army Received Over 1,800 UAVs in Past 6 Years
2018-12-24 Read More...
- The Russian army has received over 1,800 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) of different types over the last six years, the Russian Defense Ministry’s official newspaper “Krasnaya Zvezda” (Red Star)

Harris to Support US Army’s Wideband Satellite Sites
2018-12-24 Read More...
The U.S. Army has awarded Harris Corporation a nearly $218 million follow-on contract to support wideband satellite operations centers and management sites that deliver critical communications to warfighters around the

FLIR to Supply Surveillance Sensors for USAF’s UH-1N Replacement
2018-12-24 Read More...
FLIR Systems, Inc. announced it has been selected by Boeing Co to provide the FLIR Star SAFIRE 380-HDc EO/IR surveillance sensor for the USAF UH-1N replacement

ARQUUS Sponsors 2020 Year of ENSTA ParisTech Engineering School
2018-12-24 Read More...
Leader of land mobility, which is one of ENSTA ParisTech’s fields of expertise, ARQUUS officially becomes the sponsor of the 2020 year. The partnership was launched on December 19, 2018, on the School’s campus, in Palaiseau,

Northrop Grumman Demos AQS-24B Mine Warfare Capability
2018-12-21 Read More...
The Northrop Grumman Corporation AQS-24B mine hunting system demonstrated the benefits of performing mine warfare from a high-speed, unmanned surface vessel (USV) at the Royal Australian Navy-sponsored Autonomous Warrior 2018 exercise in Jervis Bay,

Nexter Named CaMo’s First Capacity Industrial Contractor
2018-12-21 Read More...
As part of the Strategic Partnership between Belgium and France in the field of land mobility (CaMo), the first Steering Committee (CODIR) was held on Wednesday, December 12 in Paris in the presence, for France, of the corps general Eric Bellot des

Boeing Completes NATO AWACS Upgrades
2018-12-21 Read More...
Boeing delivered the final Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft modernized with avionics and a digital cockpit to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Manching,

Turkey to Get 80 Patriot MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced Missiles
2018-12-20 Read More...
The U.S. State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Turkey of eighty (80) Patriot MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced Missiles (GEM-T) missiles, sixty (60) PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles and

Iran to Build New Generation of Heavy Submarines
2018-12-20 Read More...
Production of indigenized heavy submarines has been put on agenda of Iran’s Defense Industries after successful launch of different types of subsurface

Russian Strategic Tu-160 Bomber Test-Fires 12 Missiles
2018-12-20 Read More...
The strategic Tu-160 missile-carrying bomber test-fired 12 Kh-101 missiles at the Pemboi practice range in November, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at the Ministry’s year-end board meeting attended by President Vladimir Putin on

ARQUUS Delivers 500th VT4 Vehicle to French Army
2018-12-19 Read More...
On Monday, December 17th, 2018, the 500th VT4 vehicle has been delivered to the Army. Thanks to this delivery, the delivery targets – 500 Standard 1 vehicles - are met for 2018. Designed for liaison and command, the VT4 is a light vehicle which is

Boeing, Embraer Approve Terms of Strategic Aerospace Partnership
2018-12-19 Read More...
Embraer and Boeing have approved to the terms of a strategic partnership that would position both companies to accelerate growth in global aerospace

Russia Completes Infrastructure for Deploying Sarmat ICBMs
2018-12-19 Read More...
The infrastructure for deploying Russia’s most advanced Sarmat Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) has been fully prepared, Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov said in an interview published in the business daily

Rohde & Schwarz Wins Airbus Helicopters “Best Performer” Award
2018-12-19 Read More...
Airbus Helicopters honored Rohde & Schwarz as “Best Performer” with the Supplier Relationship Management Award which stands for special satisfaction with Rohde & Schwarz as a

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