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US Deploys B-1Bs, F-35s to S. Korea In Warning to Pyongyang
CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii --- The United States’ newest and most advanced fighter, the U.S. Marine Corps’ F-35B Lightning II, joined U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers for the first time in a sequenced bilater

Japan's Military Seeks Funds to Boost Missile Ranges, Speed In Record Budget
TOKYO --- Japan’s defense ministry on Thursday sought $160 million in a record budget request to develop swift, longer-range missiles to extend its military punch in East Asia, countering growing Chin

Russia to Sign First Su-57 Contract Next Year
MOSCOW --- Russia’s Defense Ministry expects to sign a contract for a pilot batch of fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jets next year and troops should receive these cutting-edge aircraft in 2019, Deputy

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US Deploys B-1Bs, F-35s to S. Korea In Warning to Pyongyang
CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii --- The United States’ newest and most advanced fighter, the U.S. Marine Corps’ F-35B Lightning II, joined U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers for the first time in a sequenced bilater...

Japan's Military Seeks Funds to Boost Missile Ranges, Speed In Record Budget
TOKYO --- Japan’s defense ministry on Thursday sought $160 million in a record budget request to develop swift, longer-range missiles to extend its military punch in East Asia, countering growing Chin...

Russia to Sign First Su-57 Contract Next Year
MOSCOW --- Russia’s Defense Ministry expects to sign a contract for a pilot batch of fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jets next year and troops should receive these cutting-edge aircraft in 2019, Deputy...

A-10 Hits ISIS Targets Three Times More than Reaper UAVs
The slowly circling Air Force A-10 jet has dropped 18,796 weapons, or 19.3 % of the total, in Iraq and Syria in support of Iraqi troops since Aug. 2014 when operations began, Air Forces Central Comman...

US Refuses to Send F-16 Trainers to Turkey, Blocks Pakistan from Doing So
WASHINGTON --- The United States has refused to send F-16 warplane trainers to Turkey after Ankara requested them in order to fill the gap in the number of Turkish jet pilots. The Turkish Armed Fo...

What Stopped Japan from Intercepting North Korean Missile?
The altitude and speed of Hwasong-12 would have made it very difficult to destroy missile in flight, while failure would have been embarrassing for Japan and encouraging to North Korea. Julian Ryall r...

Russia to Begin MiG-35 Production In 2018
MOSCOW --- The Sokol plant in Nizhny Novgorod will start the assembling of the newest MiG-35 fighter jets in 2018, according to the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Valery Shantsev. "Within a...

Pentagon Admits to Having Hidden True Afghan Troop Numbers
PENTAGON --- The Pentagon said Wednesday that about 11,000 U.S. troops are serving in Afghanistan, not 8,400 as the Defense Department had previously reported. The higher number emerged following D...

Raytheon Wins $119M for Naval Tomahawk Block IV
Raytheon Co., Tucson, Arizona, is being awarded an $119,021,912 cost-plus-incentive-fee delivery order (N00019-17-F-2001) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-15-G-0003). ...

Northrop Wins $117M to Support US Army ELINT Aircraft
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded a $116,916,350 cost, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, and fixed-price-incentive contract for logistics support services for go...

Coalition Strikes Block Highway Used by Fleeing Terrorists
SOUTHWEST ASIA --- The coalition to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria was not party to an agreement between the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Syrian regime and ISIS, Combined Joint Task Force Opera...

MDA Comments Latest Missile Defense Test
KAUAI, Hawaii --- The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy sailors aboard USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) successfully conducted a complex missile defense flight test, resulting in the intercept of...

General Dynamics Awarded Hydra-70 Rocket Program Contract
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. –-- General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, was recently awarded a $60 million contract modification by the U.S. Army Contracting Comm...

CSBA Looks at Evolution of RDT&E Funding
The CSBA continues its analysis of the FY 2018 Defense Budget with this fifth in a series of related briefs. The U.S. military faces substantial difficulties in maintaining its current technologi...

Chroming Adds 50% to Barrel Life of M-777 Howitzer
WATERVLIET ARSENAL, N.Y. --- The Watervliet Arsenal has efforts underway to leverage a newly-tested manufacturing process that will improve Soldier and Marine readiness. A recent Army contract requ...

Canadian Navy Unveils Interim Auxiliary Oiler
The Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) interim Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment ship was unveiled to the public in its nearly-completed state during an open house at Davie Shipbuilding’s Quebec shipyard on July...

USAF Describes EC-130H Role In Anti-ISIS Operations
SOUTHWEST ASIA --- Often, when we think about how air power is used in the fight against ISIS, we think about cargo aircraft delivering critical supplies and personnel to the frontlines or bombs being...

Belarus Has Made No Payment for 2015 BTR-82 Order
MOSCOW --- Belarus so far failed to remit an upfront payment for the delivery of 32 BTR-82A armored personnel carriers according to a contract signed with Moscow in September 2015, a source in the mil...

Dream Chaser Undergoes Captive Carry Test at Edwards
EDWARDS AFB, Calif. --- Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser underwent a captive carry test at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center here Aug. 30. The test was part of the spacecraft’s Phase Two...

Japan MoD, Media Differ on Cause of Osprey's Emergency Landing
TOKYO --- A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft that made an emergency landing at a commercial airport in southwestern Japan may have done so due to an instrument malfunction, Japanese Defense Minister ...

Japan Makes PAC-3 Training Deployment to Iwakuni
YAMAGUCHI, JAPAN --- The Japan Air Self-Defense Force 2nd Air Defense Missile Group conducted Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) deployment training at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Aug....

Analysis of Latest FoI Figures on UK Air and Drone Strikes
New figures released to Drone Wars UK in response to Freedom of Information requests shows a dramatic increase in the number of RAF operations in Syria in the first six months of 2017. According to t...

German Pilot Project Tracks Arms Exports
Where do German guns sold all over the world end up? The government is now checking that arms exports stay where they're supposed to - but only if the country that bought them agrees. Critics ask: wha...

GE Wins More US Orders for LM2500 Marine Gas Turbines
GE’s Marine Solutions announces that its reliable LM2500 family of aeroderivative marine gas turbines have been selected to power two newbuild surface combatants for United States Navy and Coast Guard...

Australian DoD Opens More Opportunities for Local Industry
Local industry will have more opportunities to participate in major Defence infrastructure projects as part of a pilot program announced by Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, today. ...

Ukraine Replaces Russian Components on Its Helicopters
UKROBORONPROM SE Konotop Aircraft Repair Plant "Aviakon" – together with scientific institutions of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine – diversifies components of Russian production, modernizing Mi he...

ARMY 2017: Russia Sees ‘Great International Interest’ in Its Weapons
JSC Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has successfully accomplished its business program at the ARMY-2017 International Military-Technical Forum held at the Patriot Congress and E...

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