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  1. Kuwait's defence minister has said that buying Rafale fighter aircraft was worth 'serious consideration', the official Kuwait News Agency reported.
  2.    Ottawa, June 3, 2009 - Thales has been awarded a $12.5 million Persistence Surveillance Towers System contract by the Government of Canada. The Thales Deployable Integrated Sensors for CompoUnd Security (DISCUS) system, will provide the Canadian...
  3. OC Oerlikon and RUAG today announced that RUAG will acquire 100% of Oerlikon Space AG. The undisclosed purchase price will be paid in cash. Closing of the transaction is expected mid 2009, following clearance from the relevant merger control...
  4. RUAG’s new CEO, Dr. Lukas Braunschweiler, will take over the operational management
  5. On 26th May 2009, at the Capo Teulada firing range, Oto Melara, a Finmeccanica Company, and the Israeli Rafael, respectively designer and manufacturer of the 25mm HITFIST® PLUS turret integrated with the SPIKE kit the former,  designer and supplier...
  6. Iran successfully launched an advanced surface-to-surface missile with a range of around 2,000 km (1,200 miles) on Wednesday, President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying.
  7. During his visit to the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to open a new French base on the banks of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important waterway between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf.
  8. France is finalizing the sale of 60 Rafale combat jets made by France's Dassault Aviation to the United Arab Emirates in a deal worth 6-8 billion euros ($8-11 billion), a newspaper reported on Saturday.
  9. Because of the update to the JIS90 Kanji font, specification to JISX 0213:2004 (JIS2004), the following display issues may occur in when you run Microsoft Dynamics CRM on the Windows Vista operating systems:
  10. ITEC 2009 — Europe’s premier event dedicated to defence, training, education and simulation — will be held in Brussels from 12 to 14 May. For the first time, DCNS will present its Simultim range of simulators to the naval defence community.
 



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