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After T-X and LRSAM, Northrop Also Pulls Out of MQ-25 Drone Competition
WASHINGTON --- Northrop Grumman will not put forward a bid for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 unmanned tanker aircraft, its CEO announced Wednesday. While the specific reasoning underpinning the decision wa

Britain Mulls Warships Sale As Military Cuts Deepen
Britain is considering selling frontline warships and has axed two mine-hunting vessels amid a funding crisis. Military chiefs met yesterday to discuss a new round of cuts as they grapple with a ga

US Orders Six More A-29 Super Tucanos for Afghanistan
SPARKS, Nev. --- Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and its partner Embraer Defense & Security have received orders from the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) A-29 Afghanistan Program for six more A-29 Super Tucan

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After T-X and LRSAM, Northrop Also Pulls Out of MQ-25 Drone Competition
WASHINGTON --- Northrop Grumman will not put forward a bid for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 unmanned tanker aircraft, its CEO announced Wednesday. While the specific reasoning underpinning the decision wa...

Britain Mulls Warships Sale As Military Cuts Deepen
Britain is considering selling frontline warships and has axed two mine-hunting vessels amid a funding crisis. Military chiefs met yesterday to discuss a new round of cuts as they grapple with a ga...

US Orders Six More A-29 Super Tucanos for Afghanistan
SPARKS, Nev. --- Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and its partner Embraer Defense & Security have received orders from the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) A-29 Afghanistan Program for six more A-29 Super Tucan...

Lithuania Orders Kongsberg NASAMS Air-Defense System
Kongsberg has today signed a contract worth 109 MEURO (approx. 1.000 MNOK) with the Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania to supply a NASAMS air defence system. Lithuania announ...

US Army Readies Final RFP for Lightweight Armored Vehicle
WASHINGTON --- The Army will ask industry next month to provide proposals for a lightweight armored combat vehicle known as the Mobile Protected Firepower or MPF vehicle, and plans call for fielding t...

China Sees Navy Climbing to Global 'Front Rank'
Chinese military shipbuilding technology will leap to the front rank globally in the near future, a senior ship designer said on Tuesday. Ships, such as aircraft carriers, are "instruments of natio...

Netherlands Delivers Final Surplus F-16s to Jordan
THE HAGUE --- The sale of fifteen surplus F-16 fighter aircraft to Jordan will generate revenues of over 76 million euros for the Netherlands Ministry of Defense. The government is in agreement with t...

USAF Orders Paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bombs
ARCHBALD, Pa. --- Lockheed Martin received a $131 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for follow-on production of Paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) kits. The contract represents the nint...

Lockheed Introduces Hercules Upgrade Options
MARIETTA, Ga. --- Lockheed Martin is introducing a series of post-production enhancements for the C-130 Hercules known as Aeronautics Capabilities Solutions. Aeronautics Capabilities Solutions impr...

US Warns UK of “Damaging” Cuts But MoD Calls It “Speculation”
Cuts to the Royal Marines could be very "damaging" according to senior US military officers. Colonel Dan Sullivan warned that the relationship between the US Marine Corps (USMC) and its British cou...

US Army Deploys Its Own Kestrel Eye Imaging Satellite
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. --- While the Army has long been considered America's land force, many of the Army's soldiers and civilians depend upon space to perform their missions. One of the U.S. Army ...

Bombardier “Strongly Disagrees” with Moody Rating Downgrade
MONTREAL --- Bombardier strongly disagrees with Moody’s rating action. It does not accurately reflect the value of our partnership with Airbus and is completely disconnected with the market reaction, ...

More About China’s Submarine Permanent Magnet Motor
BEIJING --- China successfully tested its first permanent magnet propulsion motor for vessels recently, according to the State-owned China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), which is known for ...

Chiefs of Defense of Counter-ISIS Countries Meet ‘Historic’
FORT BELVOIR, Va. --- Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford said the meeting here of more than 70 chiefs of defense at the Counter-Violent Extremist Organization Conference was a historic occasion. The cha...

Pratt Says F135 Engine’s Cold Section Demos Full-Life Capability
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. --- Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp., today announced that the F135 engine, which powers the fifth generation F-35 Lightning II, has successfully demonstra...

US Navy Details USS Nimitz Role in Operation Inherent Resolve
ARABIAN SEA --- The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) has performed a vital role in Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) since July 25, having launched 1,322 sorties and dropping 903 pieces of ordnance...

Exercise Provides Venue for Unmanned System Demonstrations
NEWPORT, RI --- From Aug. 15-16, the Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) 2017 Battlespace Preparation in a Contested Environment (BPCE) took place at both the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Divis...

India MoD Says Indigenisation Vital in Defence Sector
The Raksha Rajya Mantri Dr. Subhash Bhamre has said that the quest for indigenisation must be the foremost concern of any organisation as it is even more important in Defence sector as it leads to sel...

Sikorsky CHR Training Systems Pass Critical Design Review
STRATFORD, Conn. --- Lockheed Martin today announced the successful conduct of the Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) Program Training Systems Critical Design Review (CDR). This event prepares the CRH pro...

Singapore, US to Advance Regional Maritime Cooperation
Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen met United States (US) Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer in Washington D.C. yesterday. Dr Ng is in Washington D.C. from 25 to 26 October 2017 as part of the Sing...

Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board Sees Advances
WASHINGTON --- Defense Innovation Board members yesterday discussed four potential new recommendations for the Defense Department and DIB Chairman Eric Schmidt, executive director of Alphabet Inc., sa...

UK Hosts Nuclear Disarmament Verification Exercise
The UK has successfully hosted an innovative international nuclear disarmament verification exercise between nuclear and non-nuclear weapons states. Experts from Norway, Sweden and the United State...

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