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Bahrain Orders F-16V Fighters for $3.8Bn
MANAMA --- Bahrain on Tuesday announced it had signed a $3.8 billion deal with Lockheed Martin for 16 upgraded F-16 fighter jets. The Bahrain Defence Force signed the agreement with the US company

UK Defense Chiefs Unable to Answer MPs’ Questions on F-35
The cost of the next generation of fast jets is unknown and Britain has yet to work out how they will talk to other aircraft and remain hidden from the enemy, it was revealed yesterday. Harriett Ba

US Clears $2.4Bn Upgrade of Greek F-16s But Opposition Wary
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Greece for an upgrade of F-16 aircraft to an F-16 Block V configuration. T

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Bahrain Orders F-16V Fighters for $3.8Bn
MANAMA --- Bahrain on Tuesday announced it had signed a $3.8 billion deal with Lockheed Martin for 16 upgraded F-16 fighter jets. The Bahrain Defence Force signed the agreement with the US company ...

UK Defense Chiefs Unable to Answer MPs’ Questions on F-35
The cost of the next generation of fast jets is unknown and Britain has yet to work out how they will talk to other aircraft and remain hidden from the enemy, it was revealed yesterday. Harriett Ba...

US Clears $2.4Bn Upgrade of Greek F-16s But Opposition Wary
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Greece for an upgrade of F-16 aircraft to an F-16 Block V configuration. T...

China’s Xi Wants World-Class Armed Forces By Mid-Century
BEIJING --- Xi Jinping said Wednesday the Communist Party of China (CPC) will strive to fully transform the people's armed forces into world-class military by the mid-21st century. By the year 2020...

F-35B Cleared for Take Off from British Carrier Ski-Jump
The UK’s cutting-edge F-35 fighter jet is now cleared for take-off from HMS Queen Elizabeth following successful trials using the ski-ramp design featured on the UK flagship. The UK’s cutting-edge ...

Lockheed Wins $11M to Support F-35B Trials on UK Carrier
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded $11,566,000 for cost-plus-fixed-fee undefinitized delivery order 0144 against a previously issued basic orde...

Irkut MC-21-300 Airliner Flies Non-Stop to Moscow
On 17 October 2017, a flight from the test airfield of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant to Zhukovsky Airport (owned by the Rostec Corporation) was performed by test aircraft MC-21-300 in order to continue t...

Doubts Growing US Will Always Defend Asian Allies
SEOUL --- In South Korea and Japan there is increasing support for the deployment of nuclear weapons to defend against the growing North Korean threat, and due to public concern that the U.S. may no l...

S. Korean President Stresses Defense Capabilities for Peace
South Korea needs to develop its own aerospace and defense capabilities to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula, President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday. Moon also said the country should deploy advan...

Russia to Offer Anti-Torpedo Systems for Export
MOSCOW --- Russia’s manufacturers will offer anti-torpedoes for export. It became known after the Indian Navy had started to prepare the acquisition of 12 anti-torpedo kits and support equipment. New ...

Volvo Group Drops Plan to Sell Governmental Sales Unit
Volvo Group has decided to discontinue the process to divest the Governmental Sales business area. 1860x1050-news-common-volvo-sign “Our Governmental Sales operation has a positive development and...

Rockwell to Deliver Terminal Control Simulators to Australia
The battlefield training of our soldiers has been given a major boost with eight new Digital Terminal Control System simulators coming online next year. Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Chris...

Bulgarian AF Chief Chronicles Service’s Slow Decline
The decision by a Bulgarian parliamentary committee to ask the Defence Ministry to re-start the fighter jet acquisition process had negative consequences for the motivation of people in the Air Force,...

Georgia Provides Buk SAM Missile to Help Dutch MH17 Probe
TBILISI, Georgia --- The Dutch military has received from Georgia an actual Buk anti-aircraft missile system to use in the investigation of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) downing, Dutch televi...

Leonardo, Hanwha Team for Airborne Targeting Systems
SEOUL --- At a ceremony held during the 2017 edition of the Seoul ADEX exhibition, Leonardo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hanwha Systems, one of South Korea's leading aerospace s...

Boeing Renews QinetiQ Wind Tunnel Testing Contract
Boeing has renewed its commitment to evaluating its aircraft designs in QinetiQ’s five-metre wind tunnel in Farnborough, Hampshire, UK. The £25m contract is awarded under an existing 40-year agreem...

Aegis Interception Tested in Multinational Exercise
HEBRIDES, Scotland --- 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 For...

Terma Unveils Improved Self-Protection Suite for Korean T-50
AARHUS, Denmark --- During ADEX 2017, Terma will introduce its concept of bringing the aircraft self-protection capability of the F-16 to the T-50 family of Light Combat Aircraft. At Terma’s booth...

AFRL, Harvard Researchers Invent New Hybrid 3-D Printing Method
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio --- It is often said that ‘two heads are better than one;’ for the Air Force, leveraging the expertise and insights of academia has led to advances in materials development ...

USAFE, Nordic Air Chiefs Sign LOI for “Nordic Flag” Exercise
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany --- Defense officials from four Nordic countries signed a letter of intent alongside Gen. Tod D. Wolters, U.S. Air Forces in Europe Air Forces Africa commander, Oct. 16, 201...

Cobham Awarded Contract for KF-X Antenna Suite
Cobham Antenna Systems has been awarded a contract from Korean Aerospace Industries Ltd (KAI) to design and supply the fully conformal antenna suite for the future KF-X, next-generation indigenous mul...

UK, Croatian Defense Ministries Talk Cooperation
The Assistant Defence Minister for Defence Policy Petar Mihatov and the Director of International Security Policy of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom Nick Gurr on 16 October 2017 held sec...

Australia’s DST Working to Fix Spatial Disorientation
DST scientists have been working with a US expert in spatial disorientation to enhance the safety of pilots. Angus Rupert, the 2017 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Advanced Science and Technology ...

Lockheed to Develop Next-Gen Sensor Fusion Testbed
ORLANDO, Fla. --- Lockheed Martin received a $12 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion (MMSF) testbed for rotary-wing aircraft. Under the service's Night Vision...

Raytheon Supports International Naval Missile Defense Exercise
HEBRIDES RANGE, Scotland --- 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 of Scotland. ...

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