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SIA to Finalize $14bn Order for 39 Boeing Airliners Next Week
SINGAPORE --- Singapore Airlines Ltd. said on Friday it will finalise an order for 39 Boeing Co aircraft worth $13.8 billion at list prices when Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong visits Washi

China Southern to Buy 38 Boeing Jets in $5.65 Billion Deal
SHANGHAI --- China Southern Airlines has signed a deal to buy 38 aircraft from U.S. plane maker Boeing Co with a combined price tag of $5.65 billion, the Chinese carrier said on Friday. China’s lar

Four Bidders Left As Japan, Spain Pull Out of Indian Sub Competition
NEW DELHI --- Japan and Spain have opted out of India's long-pending proposed project to build six advanced stealth submarines+ for an estimated Rs 70,000 crore ($10.9 billion) through a collaboration

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SIA to Finalize $14bn Order for 39 Boeing Airliners Next Week
SINGAPORE --- Singapore Airlines Ltd. said on Friday it will finalise an order for 39 Boeing Co aircraft worth $13.8 billion at list prices when Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong visits Washi...

China Southern to Buy 38 Boeing Jets in $5.65 Billion Deal
SHANGHAI --- China Southern Airlines has signed a deal to buy 38 aircraft from U.S. plane maker Boeing Co with a combined price tag of $5.65 billion, the Chinese carrier said on Friday. China’s lar...

Four Bidders Left As Japan, Spain Pull Out of Indian Sub Competition
NEW DELHI --- Japan and Spain have opted out of India's long-pending proposed project to build six advanced stealth submarines+ for an estimated Rs 70,000 crore ($10.9 billion) through a collaboration...

Having Cut Too Deep, Boeing Woos Retirees to Come Back to Work
Boeing has been shedding jobs for five straight years in the Puget Sound region, but this year the cuts seem to have gone too far. Now, the jetmaker finds it’s short of people and is scrambling to ...

US Pacific Fleet Assessing If Ships Ready for Return to Sea
SAN DIEGO --- Vice Adm. Tom Rowden, commander of Naval Surface Forces has ordered Ready For Sea Assessments (RFSA) for all surface warships. Surface combatants forward deployed to Japan are being asse...

Raqqa Close to Liberation as ISIS 'Caliphate' Crumbles
WASHINGTON --- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is on the run around the globe, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said today at news briefing. White, speaking to the Pentagon press corps...

Japan May Add SM-6 to Aegis Ashore
The government is considering equipping planned ground-based Aegis Ashore systems with the capacity to intercept cruise missiles, in addition to the ability to defend against ballistic missiles. Wi...

Russia Developing Upgraded Mil-26T2V Heavy Helicopter
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia --- Russian Helicopters Group will modernize the Mil Mi-26 helicopter for Russia’s Defense Ministry and is now developing a prototype of a new Mi-26T2V rotorcraft, the company’s ...

F-35 Program Office Responds to “Concurrency Orphan” Report
On October 12, 2017, the Project On Government Oversight published a report detailing a proposal floated by Vice Admiral Mat Winter, the F-35 Joint Program Executive Officer, to leave 108 Air Force F-...

More on Maiden Flight of Airbus A330neo
TOULOUSE, France --- The first of three A330neo Family development aircraft to fly – MSN1795, an A330-900 variant – has landed at Toulouse-Blagnac, France at 14:10 hrs local time after successfully co...

French, German Defense Chiefs Sign MoU on Joint C-130J Squadron
Germany and France want to set up a joint air transport unit, and 10 Lockheed C-130J Hercules transport aircraft -- four French and six German -- are to be stationed at the French air base at Évreux, ...

Lockheed Flies Second LM-100J Commercial Freighter
MARIETTA, Ga. --- Lockheed Martin's LM-100J commercial freighter program recently marked yet another successful achievement with the first flight of the second production LM-100J aircraft Oct. 11. ...

Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike Group Taking Shape
An aircraft carrier will take aircraft to where you need them to operate them – with the added benefit that the ship remains UK sovereign territory and that it can carry everything needed to sustain i...

Argentina Takes Delivery of 20 ex-Italian AB-206 Helicopters
The Argentine Ministry of Defense acquired 20 Augusta-Westland AB 206 military helicopters that will be assigned to the Army Aviation Directorate as part of the military capabilities expansion and rec...

Squaring Britain’s Naval Ambitions, Priorities & Resources
The British Armed Forces are in trouble as the realities of an over-ambitious defence strategy, an underfunded equipment plan and a constrained economy bite. A closed session National Security Capabil...

Lockheed Wins Contract for Next Gen Missile Defense Radar
SYRACUSE, N.Y. --- The Department of Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the technology maturation of Lower Tier Air & Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) ...

IAI to Set Up Joint Venture in S. Korea for Drone Helicopters
Israel Aerospace Industries and Hankuk Carbon from Korea signed this morning an agreement for establishing a joint venture company in the Republic of Korea. The signing ceremony was held during the In...

Exercise Ruska 17 “Successfully Tested” Finland’s Air Defense
Ruska 17 Air Operations exercise, which took place in from 9 to 13 October, focused on all aspects of the air defense of Finland. In terms of the amount of troops participating Ruska 17 was the larges...

Safran Details Role in Airbus A330neo Program
TOULOUSE, France --- Safran is celebrating today the first flight of the Airbus A330neo, the latest member of the Airbus A330 widebody twin-engine family. Safran is a major supplier on this new jet...

US Navy Releases RFP for Heavy Polar Icebreaker
The U.S. Navy, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) under an Integrated Program Office (IPO), released a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) Oct. 19 for the detail design and construction of...

Lockheed to Upgrade IRST Sensor for US Navy
ORLANDO, Fla. --- Lockheed Martin recently received two contracts to upgrade its IRST21 sensor system for use on the U.S. Navy's F/A-18E/F fleet. Lockheed Martin's IRST21 sensor system is mounted i...

US Navy to Christen Fourth Expeditionary Sea Base Ship
WASHINGTON --- The Navy will christen the Expeditionary Sea Base future USNS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB 4) during a 10 a.m. PDT ceremony Saturday, Oct. 21, at General Dynamics NASSCO, San Diego. ...

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