| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases Turkey, Pakistan Close to Finalizing Sale of 30 T-129 Attack Helicopters
ANKARA --- The deal to export 30 ATAK helicopters is expected to be finalized soon and is considered a boost for the morale of the domestic defense industry and a promising project for Turkish-Pakista... US Clears $1Bn Package for Saudi, Including 6,600 TOW Missiles
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Saudi Arabia of TOW 2B (BGM-71F-Series) missiles for an estimated cost of $670 million. The ... China Provides Tracking System for Pakistan’s Missile Program
China has sold Pakistan a powerful tracking system in an unprecedented deal that could speed up the Pakistani military’s development of multi-warhead missiles. News of the sale – and evidence that ... France Proceeds with Optical Spy Sat as Pan-European Plans Stall
NEWTOWN, Conn. --- As delays continued with the European-wide MUSIS program, France decided to proceed with the development of a new satellite reconnaissance system alone. Paris was fearful that furth... Saudi Arms Buyers Won a $3.5Bn Discount from the Pentagon
President Donald Trump says the Saudis are a “big purchaser” of American arms. A $3.5 billion discount they won from the Pentagon last year in buying an anti-missile system for $15 billion shows they’... India Test-Fires Brahmos with Indigenous Seeker
BrahMos, the formidable supersonic cruise missile with indigenous seeker was successfully flight tested at 0842 hrs today at the Pokhran test range in Rajasthan. The supersonic cruise missile and the ... US Army Orders 16 Additional UH-72A Helicopters
Airbus Helicopters Inc., Grand Prairie, Texas, was awarded an $116,903,994 modification (P00001) to contract W58RGZ-18-C-0007 for the procurement of 16 UH-72A aircraft. Work will be performed in C... Harris Wins $161M for F-18 Electronic Warfare System
MELBOURNE, Fla. --- Harris Corporation has been awarded a $161 million contract modification to supply the next production lot of electronic jammers to protect U.S. Navy and Australian F/A-18 Hornet a... Airbus Navigated A Challenging 2017 and Lands with More Stable Outlook
Airbus had quite the tumultuous year, with corruption investigations, aircraft delivery delays due to engine issues, doubts over the A380’s future, and financial penalties associated with its A400M ai... China’s Liaoning Aircraft Carrier Enters Taiwan Strait
BEIJING --- "The aircraft carrier from the Chinese mainland is coming again," the Taiwan media exclaimed on Mar. 21 at a time when the situation in the Taiwan Strait is particularly sensitive due to t... French Air Force C-130J Flies First Logistic Mission to Mali
Only three months after its service introduction at Air Base 123 at Orléans, the first C-130J took off on March 20 for N'Djamena, then Niamey, for its first short-term logistic mission outside metropo... US Marines Increase Rotational Force in Northern Australia
Elements of the 2018 Marine Rotational Force–Darwin (MRF-D) will begin arriving in the Top End this month to prepare for the seventh and largest rotation to date. The rotation will include 1,587 US Ma... US Set to Sign Patriot Missile Deal with Poland Next Week
WARSAW --- Poland and the United States are set to agree the sale of Raytheon Co’s Patriot missile defence system to Warsaw next week, three sources told Reuters. Poland has previously said it was ... Airbus Helicopters Strengthens Position as UK Market Leader
OXFORD, UK --- Airbus Helicopters UK has defied market conditions with a new high of 14 civil aircraft booked in 2017, demonstrating a year-on-year average growth in the civil market of 36% since 2013... Naval Group Picks Subcontractors for French Navy Frigate Program
In the framework of the execution of the contract awarded by the French Defence Procurement Agency in April 2017, Naval Group initiated its process of selecting the programme's industrial suppliers fo... China, Russia and US Should Act to Prevent Hypersonic Missile Proliferation
Hypersonic missiles — specifically hypersonic glide vehicles and hypersonic cruise missiles — are a new class of threat because they are capable both of maneuvering and of flying faster than 5,000 kil... UK MoD Needs to Increase Competition In Procurement
The Public Accounts Committee report urges the MoD to do all it can to ensure UK suppliers are not disadvantaged by Brexit. Non-competitive procurement Around 50% of the Department’s procurement... Rheinmetall, Raytheon Team for Ground-Based Air Defense
Successful air defence demands a holistic approach. This is why Rheinmetall – Europe's foremost maker of military systems and equipment – wants to supply the German armed forces with a path-breaking s... Pentagon: US Must Keep Pace with Adversaries in Missile Defense
WASHINGTON --- The fiscal year 2019 budget request for ballistic missile defense seeks to ensure the United States stays ahead of adversaries that are advancing their capabilities, defense officials s... Leap-Ahead Technology to Increase Soldier Readiness
WASHINGTON --- For Soldiers, survival depends on out-maneuvering the enemy. While the Army's current fleet of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and aircraft can protect Soldiers against near-peer thre... Pentagon Is Forced to Buy $6.8 Bn Worth of Projects It Never Requested
When you’re awash in money, as the Pentagon is these days, you just might have a hard time spending it. So many greenbacks, so little time! No problem, though. Congress is happy to step in and mandat... US Navy to Commission New Guided-Missile Destroyer
The Navy will commission its newest guided-missile destroyer, the future USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114), during a 10:00 a.m. EDT ceremony Saturday, March 24, at Columbus Street Pier in Charleston, South ... Amnesty International Slams Western Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
The rights group said selling weapons to Saudis had a devastating effect on civilians in Yemen. Germany announced it would not backtrack on the sale of patrol boats to Saudi Arabia. Amnesty Interna... Exercise “Juniper Cobra” 2018 Has Ended
“Juniper Cobra” 2018, the largest training exercise ever held by the IDF in cooperation with international forces, has ended. Americans and Israelis practiced operational orders and live fire in prepa... EU COSME Funds Transnational Defence Cluster Partnerships
BRUSSELS --- For the first time ever, the EU COSME Programme is awarding grants to clusters partnering in the defence and security sector. Two transnational defence-related cluster partnerships, wh... US Navy Establishes Mobile SESEF Capability on Guam
NEWPORT, R.I. --- Naval Sea Systems Command's Shipboard Electronic Systems Evaluation Facility (SESEF) program established a mobile electromagnetic (EM) test and evaluation capability at Naval Base Gu... Ukraine to Set Up Defense Research Agency
General Advanced Research & Development Agency (GARDA), adopting the best American DARPA solutions, will be created at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI). This was stated by UKROBORONPROM ... Indian Shipyard Delivers Large OPV to Sri Lanka
Continuing with its unparalleled track record of delivering Ships ahead of contractual schedule in last 4 years, Goa Shipyard Ltd has once again delivered 2nd SL AOPV to Sri Lanka Navy ceremoniously o... Canadian Submarine Completes 200-Day Cruise
Her Majesty’s Canadian Submarine (HMCS) Chicoutimi has piled up a lot of firsts on its lengthy deployment to the Asia-Pacific region. It’s the first time a Victoria-class submarine has deployed fro... New Terahertz Technology Sniffs Out Explosives in IED
The Innovation Fund Denmark has decided to fund the project between the physicists at Aalborg University and the MyDefence R&D team, with 6.1 million Danish Kroner (0.8 million EUR). “Explosives li... Thales Exhibits at India’s DefExpo 2018 Exhibition
Thales is all set to participate in the upcoming 10th edition of Defexpo 2018—India’s premier biennial Land, Naval and Internal Homeland Security Systems Exhibition—from 11-14 April 2018 in Chennai. ... | 