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Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner and P-8A Poseidon at Farnborough
2014-07-14 Read More...
Boeing’s new 787-9 Dreamliner and the P-8A Poseidon is participating for the first time in flying displays at the Farnborough International Airshow, which runs July 14-20. This year's airshow marks the 40th anniversary of Boeing's participation at

Raytheon at Farnborough International Airshow
2014-07-14 Read More...
Precision weapons, advanced gunfire detectors, tiny jammers and a bus-size radar that tracks missiles as they hurtle through space will all be part of Raytheon Company's technology showcase at the July 14-20 Farnborough International Airshow in

Textron AirLand’s Scorpion Makes 1st Trans-Atlantic Flight
2014-07-11 Read More...
Scorpion took to the sky on July 1 from its home base in Kansas, flying a northern route and arriving in Edinburgh on July 5. Scorpion’s first trans-Atlantic flight covered 4,600 nautical miles in 15 flight hours.

Oshkosh Defense's JLTV Solution Completes Net-Ready Test
2014-07-11 Read More...
Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, reached a milestone in the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD's) Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program by completing Net-Ready testing with the Oshkosh Light Combat Tactical All-Terrain

Raytheon: Information Key to National C4I System
2014-07-10 Read More...
All seeing and all knowing is the perfect situation for any Commander. Especially given that the decisions can have tremendous and long term impact. For a Commander, accurate, reliable and immediate information is what is needed to make the best

Aegis Combat System’s Newest Baseline 9 Completes 3 Tests
2014-07-10 Read More...
The Lockheed Martin and U.S. Navy team’s Baseline 9 Aegis Combat System recently completed multiple exercises including the longest-range engagement ever tested with a Standard Missile-6 (SM-6).

HAVELSAN, Lockheed Sign Global Training Agreement
2014-07-08 Read More...
HAVELSAN signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin on June 11, 2014 to collaborate on global and local opportunities. The partnerships were confirmed at the Annual Conference on U.S.-Turkish Relations.

Raytheon Wins New AMRAAM Contract
2014-07-07 Read More...
Raytheon Company was awarded a $163,223,113 fixed-price/fixed-price-incentive/cost-plus-incentive contract for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) Program Support and Sustainment

Textron AirLand’s Scorpion to Make 1st Flight to Europe
2014-07-07 Read More...
Textron AirLand, LLC, a joint venture between Textron Inc. and AirLand Enterprises, LLC, has announced that its Scorpion aircraft is progressing on schedule toward a July departure from McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas.

Boeing Completes 14th P-8A Poseidon Delivery to US Navy
2014-07-04 Read More...
Boeing recently helped expand the U.S. Navy’s maritime patrol capabilities with delivery of the 14th P-8A Poseidon

NGC to Supply 25 New E-2D Advanced Hawkeye to US Navy
2014-07-02 Read More...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) a $3.6 billion fixed price, incentive fee multiyear contract to deliver 25 new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft, bringing the total number of aircraft on contract to

Small Diameter Bomb II Closer to Production Phase
2014-06-30 Read More...
Raytheon Company and the U.S. Air Force concluded a series of flight tests for the Small Diameter Bomb II culminating in direct hits on stationary land

Sikorsky to Develop New Combat Rescue Helicopter
2014-06-30 Read More...
Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract to develop new combat search and rescue helicopters. Sikorsky will develop a derivative of the UH-60M BLACK HAWK model for the Air Force’s

Lockheed Martin Launches LV-2 Target For Defense Test  
2014-06-25 Read More...
Lockheed Martin successfully flew an LV-2 intermediate-range ballistic missile target for a test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system conducted by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.

Oshkosh Unveils New MRAP Variants at Eurosatory
2014-06-24 Read More...
Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, unveiled its new MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) variants to military leaders and dignitaries from around the world at last week’s Eurosatory 2014 in

MBDA Unveils its Vision for the Future of C2
2014-06-24 Read More...
Drawing on its unique air defence systems experience in Europe, MBDA is unveiling the future direction it is considering for Command and Control (C2) systems via an interactive demonstrator called MiC2 (MBDA innovative C2).

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