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Taiwan Cabinet Approves $990M to Buy M-1A2 Abrams Tanks
PARIS --- Taiwan's defense ministry has obtained approval to buy 108 M-1A2 Abrams main battle tanks from the United States at a cost of NT$30 billion (US$990 million) to replace its aging M60A3 and CM

China Sees India’s S-400 Purchase Changing Geopolitical Situation
Indian media reported the postponement of the “2+2” US-Indian dialogue of defense and foreign ministers scheduled in Washington on July 6, citing “unavoidable reasons” on the American side. The dialog

Trump Says Allies Agree at Emergency Session to Raise Defense Spending
BRUSSELS --- U.S. President Donald Trump says NATO allies have agreed to speed up increasing their defense spending following criticisms he made at a NATO summit in Brussels. Speaking after his cri

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Taiwan Cabinet Approves $990M to Buy M-1A2 Abrams Tanks
PARIS --- Taiwan's defense ministry has obtained approval to buy 108 M-1A2 Abrams main battle tanks from the United States at a cost of NT$30 billion (US$990 million) to replace its aging M60A3 and CM...

China Sees India’s S-400 Purchase Changing Geopolitical Situation
Indian media reported the postponement of the “2+2” US-Indian dialogue of defense and foreign ministers scheduled in Washington on July 6, citing “unavoidable reasons” on the American side. The dialog...

Trump Says Allies Agree at Emergency Session to Raise Defense Spending
BRUSSELS --- U.S. President Donald Trump says NATO allies have agreed to speed up increasing their defense spending following criticisms he made at a NATO summit in Brussels. Speaking after his cri...

US Navy Awards $13 Billion Contract for Nuclear Propulsion Work
Fluor Marine Propulsion LLC, Arlington, Virginia, is awarded a $1,223,529,973 cost-plus-fixed fee contract for naval nuclear propulsion work at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory. This contract include...

Airbus Team Wins EU Contract for Satellite-Based Coverage
TOULOUSE --- The European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) have awarded an Airbus-led consortium a contract for the provision of satellite-based seamless coverage of the whole of Europe ...

Turkey Expects First S-400 Deliveries by End 2019
BRUSSELS --- Turkey expects to receive the first batches of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems before the end of the next year, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a NATO...

Russia 'Most Complex Threat to UK Life Since Cold War:' Defense Chief
The head of Britain's Armed Forces says Russia's subversive tactics pose the biggest 'threat to our way of life since the end of the Cold War.' Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) General Sir Nick...

Italian Customs Orders ATR-72MP Maritime Patrol Aircraft
ROME --- Leonardo has signed a contract to supply an ATR 72MP aircraft to the Italian Customs Police and provide associated logistics support and training services. The contract, valued about 44-milli...

SACEUR: Baltic Presence 'Necessary' to Stop Russian 'Aggression'
NATO's deployment of additional resources to the Baltic region despite Russia's opposition was a "necessary step" based on Moscow's "aggressive actions," the Western military alliance's supreme comman...

Australia to Support Afghan Blackhawks
Australia will assist the Afghan National Air Force to establish its UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter capability. Minister for Defence Senator the Hon Marise Payne made the announcement while attending ...

Artificial Intelligence Is ‘Strategic Priority’ for Pentagon
WASHINGTON --- Artificial intelligence is a strategic priority for the Defense Department that could transform the way the department operates, the head of machine learning at the Defense Innovation U...

Airbus to Unveil Its Bid for Next-Gen Sky Military Satcoms
FARNBOROUGH, U.K. --- Airbus will unveil its secure networked airborne military communications solution, Network for the Sky (NFTS), at the Farnborough International Airshow 2018. NFTS combines differ...

China Questions Japan’s Motives for Attending NATO Summit
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit [took place] in Brussels, capital of Belgium. The news that the Japanese government will establish a representative office to NATO in Brussels attr...

Future US Warships Will Use Flight III DDG-51 Combat System
ARLINGTON, Va. --- The Navy’s vision of what its next large surface combatant will look like still remains unclear, but that future hull will almost certainly run the DDG-51 Flight III’s combat system...

US Army Fields First Unit with Expeditionary Network
FORT GORDON, Ga. -- The Army formally fielded the first unit with the new small form factor Terrestrial Transmission Line Of Sight radio, known as TRILOS, along with several other expeditionary networ...

Airbus Begins Final Assembly on First H160 Next-Gen Helicopter
MARIGNANE --- The first pre-serial H160 has been fitted with its rear fuselage, the first major component assembly having been pre-assembled in Albacete, Spain according to the site specialisation str...

NATO Burden-Sharing Needs Plans, Not Meaningless Percentage Goals
This report updates a previous version to reflect the developments at the July Summit and the fact NATO issued a new set of defense spending data on the day before the Summit that cover FY2018. This d...

Royal Navy Merlin Squadron Prepares for Carrier Operations
820 Naval Air Squadron (NAS), the Aircraft Carrier’s dedicated maritime helicopter squadron, is making its final preparations to embark onto HMS Queen Elizabeth for the autumn and winter of 2018. S...

JetBlue Selects P&W GTF Engines to Power 60 Airbus A220s
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. --- Pratt & Whitney congratulates JetBlue Airways on its selection of 60 firm Airbus A220-300 aircraft, which are powered exclusively by Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan (GTF) engi...

Growing Demand Pushes PAC 3 Production Increase
ORLANDO -- Demand for the Patriot Advanced Capability - 3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors is growing. To meet this demand, Lockheed Martin is increasing production. The U.S. ...

Sukhoi SSJ100 Prototype Damaged During Hard Landing
On July 12, 2018 at the Flight Test Institute airport named after Gromov, during the flight tests aimed at SSJ100 winglets aerodynamics performance evaluation, after the end of the planned flight prog...

Northrop Delivers Software for Critical UH-60V Black Hawk Testing
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. --– Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered software to the U.S. Army for the UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter to enter Limited User Testing (LUT) ― a critical milestone leading ...

Thales Unit’s Holographic Radar to Track Flight Displays At RIAT Show
The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT), which takes place at Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford in Gloucestershire from 13-15 July and is staging the worldwide celebration of the RAF’s centenary this y...

RIMPAC Mine Warfare Operations Underway in SOCAL
SAN DIEGO --- Commander Task Force (CTF) 177, led by U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Dave Welch, commander, Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) and the Navy's Global Mine Warfare Command...

FI Releases List of Top 100 US Government Contractors
The General Services Administration’s U.S. Federal Procurement Data System – Next Generation released its annual Top 100 Federal Contractors report – Fiscal Year 2017. The top 100 federal contrac...

Australia Comments Airbus Automatic Air-to-Air Refueling
Automatic Air-to-Air Refuelling (A3R) has been demonstrated to the RAAF during a trial in Spain. A3R allows a tanker aircraft to autonomously guide the boom into contact with the receiver aircraft. ...

Rostec Says Kazan Demos Advanced Flight Security Systems
Experts of the Kazan Helicopters (KVZ), an affiliate of the Russian Helicopters holding company of the Rostec State Corporation, has showcased a demonstration stand with an installed system for active...

EDA Releases Report on 3D-Printing and Final Video
BRUSSELS --- The outcome of EDA’s project on Additive Manufacturing (AM, better known as 3D printing), launched in 2016, is now available: a report on the impact of AM on the defence and a video cove...

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