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China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter Takes Part In First Combat Exercises
The Chinese Air Force has deployed its best combat plane - the J-20 stealth fighter jet - to conduct exercises with other advanced jets. The Air Force of the People's Liberation Army said in a news

Belgian NH90s Indefinitely Grounded
The new NFH-90 Gray Caiman helicopters will be grounded from next week. The Gray Caiman is the successor of the old Sea King helicopter, and will perform rescue operations at sea. But, due to problems

Airbus Delivered 718 Airliners in 2017, Booked 1,109 Net Orders
TOULOUSE, France --- Airbus' Commercial Aircraft deliveries in 2017 were up for the 15th year in a row, reaching a new company record of 718 aircraft delivered to 85 customers. Deliveries were more th

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China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter Takes Part In First Combat Exercises
The Chinese Air Force has deployed its best combat plane - the J-20 stealth fighter jet - to conduct exercises with other advanced jets. The Air Force of the People's Liberation Army said in a news...

Belgian NH90s Indefinitely Grounded
The new NFH-90 Gray Caiman helicopters will be grounded from next week. The Gray Caiman is the successor of the old Sea King helicopter, and will perform rescue operations at sea. But, due to problems...

Airbus Delivered 718 Airliners in 2017, Booked 1,109 Net Orders
TOULOUSE, France --- Airbus' Commercial Aircraft deliveries in 2017 were up for the 15th year in a row, reaching a new company record of 718 aircraft delivered to 85 customers. Deliveries were more th...

Airbus Ordered to Pay €104M to Taiwan Over Missile Sale
Airbus SE is providing an update on two unrelated legacy legal cases. The first legal legacy case concerns a commercial dispute, previously mentioned in the company’s Financial Statements, between ...

Hawaii Missile Alert Was False Alarm: PACOM
WASHINGTON --- U.S. Pacific Command has detected no ballistic missile threat to Hawaii, Pacom officials said in a statement today after Hawaii residents received an emergency notification at 8:07 a.m....

German UH-1D Rescue Helicopters to Fly Until 2020
Bad news for the troops: According information obtained by Der Spiegel, the modernization of Bundeswehr’s rescue helicopters is being massively delayed. Until 2020, only aircraft dating back to the 19...

Turkey Steps Up Arms Sales to Asia
ISTANBUL --- Turkey is stepping up defense industry exports to South and Southeast Asian countries such as Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines in a drive to diversify beyond traditional ...

Greece Opens Talks to Buy Two Fremm Frigates from France
A request for the opening of talks to acquire two FREMM frigates is expected to be sent by the Greek government to Paris within the next month. Contacts between Greece and France will begin initially ...

Pakistan Delivers Final Trainer Batch to Nigeria
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) today, 14 January 2018, took delivery of the second batch of Super Mushshak trainer aircraft that the Federal Government had since ordered from Pakistan. The Ilyushin ...

Russia to Complete Il-78M-90A Flight Tests by 2019
MOSCOW --- Tests of Russia’s advanced Ilyushin II-78M-90A tanker aircraft may be completed by late 2018 or early 2019, the Ilyushin Bureau’s Chief Designer Nikolai Talikov said in an interview with TA...

China In Talks to Sell Jet Engine Technology to Germany
China is in talks to sell Germany state-of-the-art machinery and technology critical in the manufacture of high-performance jet engines, a senior government scientist has revealed. The machinery pr...

Australia Deploys Hawkei to Iraq for Military Trials
Australia’s new Hawkei Protected Mobility Vehicles have deployed into a warzone for the first time. Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, and Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Ch...

Johns Hopkins Wins $934M Missile Defense Contract
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, a university affiliated research center, Laurel, Maryland, is being awarded a $933,798,332 non-competitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. U...

Raytheon Wins $641M to Test Missile Defense Radars
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Woburn, Massachusetts, is being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-award-fee line items with a ...

China Launches Twin Beidou-3 Nav Satellites
XICHANG, Sichuan Province --- China on Friday sent twin satellites into space on a single carrier rocket to help its BeiDou system provide navigation and positioning services to countries along the Be...

Northrop Wins $173M for BACN Operations
Northrop Grumman, San Diego, California, has been awarded a $172,669,763 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN). This contract provides BACN payload oper...

Leonardo CEO Visits Israel to Woo US Air Force
The company is one of three contenders for US tender for a new-fighter trainer program. With the US Air Force’s hunt for a next-generation military trainer aircraft narrowed down to three top conte...

USS Wasp Arrives in Japan; First F-35 Patrol Due This Year
SASEBO, Japan --- Amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) arrived to Sasebo, Japan on Jan. 14, completing a 28,400-mile journey from Norfolk, Va. that began in late August. Wasp, which has undergo...

Korean AF Chief Visits Turkey, Indonesia for Arms Sales Talks
SEOUL -- South Korea's top Air Force commander will soon visit Turkey and Indonesia to promote mutual defense cooperation and support Seoul's arms exports, his unit said Wednesday. The two countrie...

South Korea's Arms Sales Grow 25% in 2017
SEOUL --- South Korea's exports of weapons jumped to US$3.19 billion last year amid efforts to diversify products, customers and marketing methods, the country's state arms agency said Monday. It r...

Germany Delivers €18M in Military Equipment to Jordan
German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen oversaw the delivery of €18 million ($22 million) worth of military equipment to the Jordanian armed forces on Sunday in a move designed to improve the cou...

US Air Force F-16 Squadron Deploys to Estonia
AMARI AIR BASE, Estonia --- Twelve F-16 Fighting Falcons from the Ohio Air National Guard landed at Amari Air Base, Estonia, Jan. 14, as part of a Theater Security Package in support of Operation Atla...

US Air Force Tests Virtual Reality Adaptive Flight Training
COLUMBUS AFB, Miss. --- A team of student researchers from Air Command and Staff College, Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, conducted an Adaptive Flight Training Study Jan. 9-12, 2018...

French Air Force Retires Harfang Unmanned Aircraft
On Monday, January 8, 2018, a Harfang drone belonging to the 1/33 "Belfort" Drone Squadron landed for the final time on Cognac-Chateaubernard Air Base (BA 709), before its withdrawal from active servi...

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