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Lockheed Martin Wins Order for Paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bombs
2017-10-27 Read More...
Lockheed Martin received a $131 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for follow-on production of Paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bomb (LGB)

Orbital ATK to Supply New Components for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
2017-10-27 Read More...
Orbital ATK announced it has received an initial $24 million contract from Lockheed Martin to produce additional composite components for the F-35 Joint Strike

Roketsan Participates at 3 Major Exhibitions in October
2017-10-27 Read More...
Roketsan attended, for the second time, the ADEX 2017 fair held in Seoul, South Korea from 17 to 22 October. Roketsan displayed its innovative and solution oriented systems and products at the show where various delegations from many countries

SRC, Inc. Wins Orders for Counter-UAS Technology
2017-10-26 Read More...
SRC has been awarded a $12.7 million contract to provide the Air Force with Counter-Unmanned Aerial (UAS) Systems to meet an urgent requirement to detect and defeat

MBDA Appoints Chris Allam as UK Managing Director
2017-10-25 Read More...
MBDA announced the appointment of Chris Allam (photo) to the role of MBDA UK Managing Director and to MBDA’s Group Executive Committee. The appointment will become effective on 1 January 2018. He replaces Dave Armstrong who is leaving MBDA at the

New Buyan-Class Corvette to Join Russian Navy
2017-10-25 Read More...
Russian Navy reported that the new corvette is about to finish state sea trials and is going to be commissioned to the Navy by the end of the

Germany Approves Deal to Sell 3 Submarines to Israel
2017-10-24 Read More...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government approved a deal to sell the Israeli Navy three submarines costing up to $1 billion each, overcoming reservations about dealing with Israeli officials closely connected to Prime Minister Benjamin

Raytheon’s SM-3 Intercepts Ballistic Missile in NATO Exercise
2017-10-24 Read More...
A Raytheon-built Standard Missile-3 intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile target at sea as part of a multinational operational exercise off the coast

Saab to Deliver Subsystems for MBDA’s Meteor
2017-10-23 Read More...
Defense and security company Saab has signed a contract with MBDA for deliveries of subsystems for the Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM) missile system. The order value amounts to approximately SEK 150 million and deliveries

North Korea Building “Sinpo-C-Class” Submarine
2017-10-23 Read More...
US military intelligence assesses that North Korea has started building a “Sinpo-C-Class” submarine at the Sinpo shipyard on the country's east coast, the outlet reports. The sub's specifications include a displacement of 2,000 tons,

Volvo Group Not to Divest Governmental Sales
2017-10-19 Read More...
Volvo Group has decided to discontinue the process to divest the Governmental Sales business

Aegis Runs Air, Missile Defense Tests During NATO Exercise
2017-10-19 Read More...
The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency, supported by Lockheed Martin, successfully conducted a series of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) tests in the Atlantic Ocean during Formidable Shield 2017 (FS-17) from 24 September to 17 October 2017. Naval

Raytheon Opens New Engineering Facility in Albuquerque
2017-10-18 Read More...
Raytheon Company has opened a new facility in the Sandia Science and Technology Park, expanding its operations to develop and produce range monitoring and telemetry systems for the U.S. and its allies. The expansion will bring 60 new high-tech

Harris Wins 5-Year Contract from US Department of Navy
2017-10-17 Read More...
The U.S. Department of Navy has awarded Harris Corporation a five-year, $765 million ceiling, single-award IDIQ contract to provide tactical radios and ancillary devices to the Navy and Marine

Boeing, U.S. Air Force Complete 1st KC-46 to KC-46 Refueling
2017-10-16 Read More...
A Boeing-U.S. Air Force test team recently refueled a KC-46A tanker from another KC-46A tanker for the first

U.S. Army Receives First New Generation Abrams Tank
2017-10-13 Read More...
The U.S. Army took delivery of the first of six newly-upgraded MIA2 SEP v3 Abrams Main Battle Tanks. The first MIA2 SEP v3 tank, built by General Dynamics Land Systems, is slated to arrive as soon as this month - as part of a delivery of initial

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