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Lack of Growth Potential Scuttled F-16 Sale to India
NEW DELHI --- Despite the overdrive by the US-based aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, no agreement for the F-16 Block 70/72 production was inked during the recently concluded visit of Prime Minister Na

Austria Looks for New Fighter As Eurofighter Retirement Looms
VIENNA --- Austrian Defense Minister Doskozil is looking for a cheaper alternative to the Eurofighter. In the Ministry of Defense, they will tell you nothing on the subject. No wonder: the SPÖ Defe

Successful First Launch of the French-British ANL Missile
Teams from France’s Directorate-General of Armaments (DGA) and MBDA successfully completed the first launch of the AntiNavire Léger (ANL) lightweight anti-ship missile on 21 June 2017 on the Mediterra

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Lack of Growth Potential Scuttled F-16 Sale to India
NEW DELHI --- Despite the overdrive by the US-based aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, no agreement for the F-16 Block 70/72 production was inked during the recently concluded visit of Prime Minister Na...

Austria Looks for New Fighter As Eurofighter Retirement Looms
VIENNA --- Austrian Defense Minister Doskozil is looking for a cheaper alternative to the Eurofighter. In the Ministry of Defense, they will tell you nothing on the subject. No wonder: the SPÖ Defe...

Successful First Launch of the French-British ANL Missile
Teams from France’s Directorate-General of Armaments (DGA) and MBDA successfully completed the first launch of the AntiNavire Léger (ANL) lightweight anti-ship missile on 21 June 2017 on the Mediterra...

India Tests QR-SAM Mobile Air-Defense Missile
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)-developed Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) was successfully flight tested from ITR Chandipur, off the Odisha Coast at 11.30 AM tod...

“Failed” North Korea Missile Test Validates Some ICBM Traits
South Korea's military says North Korea has launched another ballistic missile Tuesday morning. It wasn't immediately clear if this was a routine firing of a short-range missile or an attempt to pe...

Rheinmetall to Modernize Bundeswehr’s Boxer Command Vehicles
Rheinmetall has been tasked with modernizing 38 Boxer multipurpose armoured transport vehicles for the Bundeswehr, all of them configured for a command role. On 28 June 2017, OCCAR, the European procu...

Beijing Slams US Destroyer's Intrusion into “Chinese Waters”
The Foreign Ministry has called the trespassing of a US missile destroyer in China's territorial waters a "serious political and military provocation", and the Ministry of National Defense said the mo...

Turkey Launches Final Milgem Corvette, Cuts Steel on First Frigate
Turkey’s flourishing indigenous arms industry has defied a “hidden embargo” on the country for the last 15 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on July 3, signaling new projects in the sector. ...

Lockheed Wins 2 More Contracts for F-35 Lots 11 and 12
-- Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $43,974,520 modification P00001 to a previously awarded advance acquisition contract (N00...

LPD 27 Successfully Completes Builder's Trials
PASCAGOULA, Miss. --- The Navy's future amphibious transport dock, USS Portland (LPD 27), successfully completed Builder's Trials Jun. 30. The ship returned to the Huntington Ingalls Industries' ...

Merlin Helicopter First to Land on New Royal Navy Carrier
A Merlin helicopter has landed on HMS Queen Elizabeth's enormous flight deck - the first aircraft to ever touch down on Britain's biggest warship. It fell to 26-year-old pilot Lieutenant Luke Wrait...

UK MoD Touts Defence R&D and Arms Exports As Supporting UK Jobs
Defence’s contribution to the UK economy was on show today as Defence Minister Harriett Baldwin visited the south west to hear how Ministry of Defence (MOD) research and industrial partnerships are su...

Airbus Helicopters’ H215 Kicks Off its China Demo Tour
ZHUHAI, China --- The heavy twin H215 helicopter, a member of the world-renowned Super Puma family, is demonstrating its multi-mission capabilities for firefighting, power line missions, law enforceme...

Turkish Aerospace Reveals New T625 Multi-Role Helicopter
TAI-Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc., is proud to reveal "T625 Multi-Role Helicopter" at Paris Air Show 2017, a new generation, twin engine, 6 ton class helicopter developed in response to the growin...

Hürkuş Turboprop Trainer In Paris Air Show Flight Display
Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI) is pleased to announce the completion of the first international demonstration flight of its Basic Trainer Aircraft – HÜRKUŞ on the opening day of the 52nd Int...

Airborne Retrofit & Modernization Highlights
This blog post briefly highlights recent Airborne Retrofit & Modernization news. More in-depth news can be found in Forecast’s E-Market Alerts. Sign up here to receive our World Aerospace and Defense ...

Royal Australian Navy Lauds New EC135T2+ Training Helicopter
The aircraft set to train Australian Defence Force aviators is an impressive piece of kit. The Airbus EC135 T2+ offers the performance and safety of a twin-engine helicopter and will replace the Na...

India MoD Signs MoU with Mazagon Docks on Year’s Orders
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL), a Miniratna Schedule ‘A’ DPSU under the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the financial year 201...

Lithuanian Soldiers Deployed to in Afghanistan and Iraq
On July 4 deployment ceremony will be held at the Joint Staff HQ for Lithuanian Armed Forces soldiers leaving for the NATO-led multinational Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan and the U.S.-led mu...

Russian Strategic Missile Units Get Yars ICBMs, New Simulators
Strategic missile forces units, rearming with Yars missile complex, received about 100 newest simulators. These training simulators emit the combat anti-sabotage vehicle Typhoon-M, remote demining ...

Russia Introduces New Air Defense Radars
New radar stations Nebo-U and Nebo-M were introduced into the 14th Air Force and Air Defence army of the Central MD. The stations reinforced the district’s radio-technical units, located in the Vol...

Dutch Aerospace Lab NLR Advances 3D Metal Printing
NLR has more than 50 years of experience of metals, which according to Marc de Smit, NLR project leader at the Metal Additive Manufacturing Technical Centre (MAMTeC) is incredibly important for additi...

Study Finds Basing Soldiers Overseas Cheaper Than Rotations
The downsizing of the Army overseas has cost more money than expected because of a reliance on expensive rotational forces when forward-based units can perform the same roles more cheaply, according t...

Avio Aero to Produce 3D-Printed Parts for ATP
RIVALTA DI TORINO, Italy --- Avio Aero, a GE Aviation business that designs, builds and maintains aviation engines, will produce, at its Brindisi plant, the additive-manufactured components of the Gen...

Focus On Defense Symposium on Sustaining the Nuclear Triad
OGDEN, Utah --– The 2017 Focus on Defense Symposium was held June 21 at the Ogden Eccles Center and was co-hosted by the Air Force Sustainment Center and Utah Air Force Association. This year’s the...

On July 4, A Lesson on Pentagon’s “Soft Earmarking” Excesses
Sometime on Sunday the House Appropriations Committee released its “Chairman’s Mark” of the Fiscal Year 2018 spending bill for the Pentagon. And late Monday night, the Defense subcommittee met in c...

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