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Boeing Wins $1.5 Bn for F-18 Family Upgrades
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded a $1,517,403,626 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for system configuration sets and associated services in support of the life cycle upg

Poland Again Scraps Tender for Combat SAR Helicopters
WARSAW --- In what has become a recurring ritual for Polish helicopter acquisition programs since April 2015 when its previous government down-selected the Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracal to meet a m

Belgium Ignores French Offer for Rafale
The French strategic partnership offer for the replacement of F-16 fighter-bombers with Rafale aircraft has never been studied in detail by Belgium, whereas the complete file has never been received b

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Boeing Wins $1.5 Bn for F-18 Family Upgrades
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded a $1,517,403,626 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for system configuration sets and associated services in support of the life cycle upg...

Poland Again Scraps Tender for Combat SAR Helicopters
WARSAW --- In what has become a recurring ritual for Polish helicopter acquisition programs since April 2015 when its previous government down-selected the Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracal to meet a m...

Belgium Ignores French Offer for Rafale
The French strategic partnership offer for the replacement of F-16 fighter-bombers with Rafale aircraft has never been studied in detail by Belgium, whereas the complete file has never been received b...

Watchkeeper UAV Crash Is Third in Past Year
A [Watchkeeper] drone launched from West Wales Airport at Aberporth crashed in a lane close to the airstrip at around 5pm yesterday afternoon. Police and firefighters were called to the scene near Cyt...

Participants Mull Lessons Learned at Ex. Saber Strike 18
BEMOWO PISKIE, Poland --- As this year's U.S. Army Europe-led Saber Strike 18 cooperative training exercise comes to an end, soldiers from NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Poland reflecte...

Airbus Warns Governments Not to Interfere In European Fighter Program (excerpt)
BERLIN --- European efforts to develop a next-generation military combat jet will end in disaster if individual governments insist on dictating specific suppliers or sites, the chief executive of Euro...

Two Koreas Agree to Restore Military Communications
PANMUNJOM, Korea --- The two Koreas agreed Thursday to completely restore their military communication lines during their first general-grade military talks in more than a decade, their joint statemen...

Afghan AF’s New UH-60s Not As Capable As Earlier Mi-17s: Pentagon IG
WASHINGTON --- The U.S. Army’s Black Hawk helicopters are less capable for some missions conducted by Afghanistan’s Air Force than the Russian-made ones they’re replacing, according to the Pentagon’s ...

The World May Soon Be Awash In Advanced, Lethal Drones
U.S. military forces face a growing threat from sophisticated and often deadly drones, due to the broad proliferation of related weapons and surveillance technologies that until recently have largely ...

US Air Force Completes Tests of Kongsberg Joint Strike Missile
EDWARDS AFB, Calif. --- A team of U.S. Air Force engineers, test pilots and Norwegian government and industry personnel recently completed a large phase of testing for the Joint Strike Missile. The...

Rolls-Royce Outlines Five-Year, £400M Recovery Plan
Rolls-Royce is today hosting its 2018 Capital Markets Event with investors and financial analysts at which we will be providing further details of our fundamental restructuring and our mid-term financ...

Keel Laid for Swedish SIGINT Ship at Polish Naval Shipyard
The keel-laying ceremony for the new Swedish signals intelligence ship took place today at the Naval Shipyard, located in Gdynia, Poland. The event was attended by representatives from Saab, the Polis...

Indra ESM Manpack Allows Soldiers to Gather Intel on Enemy Radars
Indra has finished developing an innovative, lightweight and portable electronic defense system (manpack), which equips soldiers with the most advanced radar-band analysis capacities to determine the ...

Large UAVs Seen Proliferating As Foreign Producers Bypass Controls
Section 1276 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017 requires an independent assessment, directed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of the impact that certain...

BAE Wins $348M to Produce Bradley M2A4 Combat Vehicles
BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P., York, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $347,999,966 fixed-price-incentive-fee contract for production of up to 473 Bradley M2A4 and M7A4 vehicles, and procurement of auth...

Thales to Upgrade Sonar of Australia’s Collins Class Submarines
Australia’s strategic priority on enhancing its submarine capability will be supported by Thales through major upgrades of the sonar systems on all six Collins class submarines. The A$230million contr...

UN Says Iran Made Missile Parts Fired at Saudis from Yemen
The United Nations has determined that debris from five ballistic missiles launched from Yemen into Saudi Arabia since July contained components manufactured in Iran and shared key design features wit...

USAF to Upgrade SAR radars on Reaper UAVs
General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $22,907,561 firm-fixed-price modification (000105) to a previously awarded contract (FA8620-15-G-4040) for MQ-9 Reape...

Barzan, Safran Team for Electro-Optics and Navigation
EUROSATORY --- Barzan Holdings and Safran Electronics & Defense announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop the foundations of a partnership in the def...

Safran Wins Dutch MoD Thermal Imaging System
EUROSATORY 2018 --- The Defense Material Organization (DMO) of the Netherlands announced the selection of Safran Vectronix AG, Switzerland (a subsidiary of Safran Electronics & Defense) as part of the...

NRL Increases UAV Endurance with Solar Technology
WASHINGTON --- Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are developing technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that has given them the ability to fly for more than 12 hours by har...

India Slowly Builds Success with GSLV Space Launcher
NEWTOWN, Conn. --- For years, India struggled with its GSLV. Unlike the PSLV, the GSLV has not been established as a major player in the international launch market. The GSLV was plagued by a lack of ...

Oshkosh Wins $160M Order for FMTV Trucks
OSHKOSH, Wis. --- Oshkosh Defense, LLC announced today that the U.S. Army Contracting Command has placed four additional orders for a total of 771 Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV), valued at ...

Seoul to Carefully Consider Suspending Korea-US Military Drills
President Moon Jae-in said that the government will cautiously consider suspending joint military drills with the U.S. as a follow-up action to the NK-U.S. summit. “If North Korea sincerely impleme...

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