| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases UK to Invest Initial £1.3Bn to Start Building New Successor SSBNs
Construction work will start on the UK’s new nuclear submarines, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has announced, as he unveiled nearly £1.3 billion of new investment with BAE Systems. The Successor... United Launch Services Wins $861M for Space Launchers
United Launch Services LLC, Centennial, Colorado, has been awarded an $860,782,114 modification (P00142) to previously awarded contract FA8811-13-C-0003 for Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle launch ca... Pentagon Paid British PR Firm $500M for Top Secret Iraq Propaganda
The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda programme in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Bell Pottinger’s output... Swiss Super Pumas Resume Flights
BERN --- The Air Force has authorized the resumption of Super Puma flights. Early findings made after yesterday's accident do not indicate any technical failure. Major excavation work began this mo... China Masters Steam Catapult Technologies for New Carriers
BEIJING --- Chinese military expert Li Jie said on September 28 that China had basically grasped the main technologies of steam-powered catapult, but what kind of catapult will be used on China's seco... Philippines Looks to Acquire 36 More FA-50s, 12 Attack Helos
The Philippine Air Force is looking to acquire 36 additional South Korean-made FA-50PH “Fighting Eagle” and 12 more AW-109Es, IHS Jane’s 360 reports. This was revealed by a senior Air Force officer sp... Royal Air Force Typhoons Land in Malaysia for Exercise
Royal Air Force Typhoon Aircraft flown by 1(Fighter) Squadron from RAF Lossiemouth have landed at Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) Butterworth in Malaysia for Exercise Bersama Lima 16, the first leg o... Iran Touts New Combat Drone 5 Years After Capturing US Prototype
Iranian news reports say Tehran has built a new aerial attack drone similar to a U.S. military aerial vehicle captured five years ago after it entered Iranian airspace from the country's eastern borde... Russia Delivers Over 100 MiG-29K Engines to Indian Navy
MOSCOW --- More than 100 Russian-made RD-33MK turbojet engines have been delivered to India’s Navy, the press office of Russia’s United Engine Corporation (UEC) said. The engines were manufactured ... Mitsubishi Denies New Delays In MRJ Jet Deliveries
NAGOYA, Japan --- News reports on October 1 cited a delay in the delivery schedule for the MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet). However, no such announcement has been made by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation... Polish F-16s Deploy to Estonia for Air Policing Exercise
RAMSTEIN, Germany – Baltic Air Policing quick response aircraft from the deployed German and French detachments, along with NATO and Partner aircraft and ground crews from Poland, Finland, Sweden, Est... France Awards Contract for Mid-Life Upgrade of Mirage 2000Ds
The French defence procurement agency, the Direction Générale pour l’Armement (DGA) has awarded the contract for the Mid-Life Update of the Mirage 2000D fighters to Dassault Aviation and MBDA. The ... BAE Wins $249M for Common Missile Warning Systems
BAE Systems, Nashua, New Hampshire, was awarded a $249,401,819 modification (P00029) to contract W58RGZ-13-D-0245 for the purchase of Common Missile Warning Systems and associated spare parts; and sys... Sikorsky Wins $92M for 8 Helicopters for Saudi Arabia
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Connecticut, was awarded a $91,832,211 modification (P00384) to foreign military sales contract W58RGZ-12-C-0008 (Saudi Arabia) for exercising an option for eight u... Lockheed Wins $149M for SEWIP Program
Lockheed Martin Corp., Mission Systems and Training, Liverpool, New York, is being awarded a $148,905,000 firm-fixed-price contract for full rate production of Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement P... Lockheed Wins $106M for Trident II (D5) Sub-Launched Missiles
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, California, is being awarded $106,157,252 for fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-incentive-fee, and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification PZ0001 to a previously ... Northrop Wins $49M for MQ-4C Long Lead Items
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is being awarded $49,400,000 for fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification P00010 to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive contract (... Lockheed Wins $37M for F-35 Block 3F Software Upgrades
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded $37,249,243 for modification to delivery order 5503 previously placed against basic ordering agreement N0001... Dassault, Reliance Group Form Indian JV for Rafale Offsets
PARIS / MUMBAI --- Dassault Aviation Chairman & CEO Eric Trappier and Reliance Group Chairman Anil Dhirubhai Ambani announced today the creation of a Joint Venture in India. This new joint venture ... US Military Is Building a $100 Million Drone Base in Mali
From high above, Agadez almost blends into the cocoa-colored wasteland that surrounds it. Only when you descend farther can you make out a city that curves around an airfield before fading into the de... Royal Australian Navy Evaluates Scan Eagle UAV, New Sensor
A team from the Navy Unmanned Aircraft Systems Unit have deployed to Christmas Island to test their ability to conduct long term Unmanned Aircraft System operations without support. The six-member ... Colombia Deploys Full UAV Squadron for Referendum Security
For the first time, the Colombian Air Force deployed its full squadron of Hermes 450 remotely-piloted aircraft in order to fully monitor the vote for the October 2 referendum as part of the Democracy ... Fincantieri Delivers Italy’s Fifth Fremm Frigate, ALpino
TRIESTE, Italy --- The frigate “Alpino” was delivered today at the Muggiano (La Spezia) shipyard. It is the fifth vessel of the FREMM program - Multi Mission European Frigates - commissioned to Fincan... Egypt Receives Second MRAP Shipment from US
Egypt received on Thursday a second shipment of mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles from the United States that it claims would boost the fighting abilities of the armed forces, a statemen... US Air Force Preparing No-Bid Purchase of Spy Planes
Last year, the U.S. Air Force tried to retire most of its EC-130 Compass Call spy planes, worn from years of flying over Iraq and Afghanistan. Now service officials say replacements are needed urgentl... After Repairs, USS Coronado Resumes Voyage to Western Pacific
HONOLULU --- Littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) departed the waters surrounding Hawaii to continue its 16-month rotational deployment to 7th Fleet in support of the Indo-Asia-Pacific rebalance,... US Air Force Stops Dependents on Tours In Turkey
SAN ANTONIO, Texas --- Air Force assignments to Turkey are now unaccompanied, 12-month tours, effective Sept. 21, Air Force officials said Sept. 29. The decision was made taking into account the re... Raytheon on Longest Range Surface-to-Air Intercept In Naval History
POINT MUGU NAVAL STATION, Calif. --- In the longest range surface-to-air intercept of its kind in naval history, a Raytheon Company Standard Missile-6 successfully destroyed an over-the-horizon, threa... Raytheon Gets OK for Gallium Nitride Part for AN/TPY-2 Radars
TEWKSBURY, Mass. --- The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Company a contract modification to develop a transition to production process to incorporate Gallium Nitride, or GaN, componen... RUAG Markets Digital Turret to UK
Between the 7th – 8th of September RUAG Defence demonstrated its Main Battle Tank (MBT) capabilities at DVD in Millbrook, UK. As part of RUAG Defence’s ongoing bid to upgrade the UK’s Challenger 2 ... First B-52H Returns to Active Service from Storage
TINKER AFB, Okla. --- The first B-52H Stratofortress to be resurrected from long-term storage at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) to rejoin the active strategic bomber fleet so... Pentagon Touts Capabilities of Service Research Labs
WASHINGTON --- World-class scientists and engineers have been creating cutting-edge technologies for warfighters at military laboratories for nearly 100 years, and a Sept. 28 hearing on Capitol Hill f... EDA Receives 21 Proposals for Pilot Project On Defence Research
BRUSSELS --- The European Defence Agency (EDA) has received so far 21 submissions in response to the “Call for Proposals for the Pilot Project on defence research” closed on 23 June.* The objective of... Turkey’s FNSS Exhibits at Manila Defense Show
Following the opening ceremony on 28th September, visits from local and foreign delegations still continues with great interest. FNSS had supplied number of ACV15 AAPC' to Armed Forces Philippines ... | 