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Australia Orders 211 Boxer Armored Vehicles Worth Over €2 billion
CANBERRA --- The Turnbull Government has signed the contract with Rheinmetall for the delivery of 211 armoured combat reconnaissance vehicles which will provide vital mobility, lethality and protectio

Lockheed, MBDA Receive Second RFP to Develop TLVS for Germany
SCHROBENHAUSEN and DALLAS --- The German Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) has issued a second Request for Proposal (RFP) to the TLVS bidd

F-35 Joint Program Office to Continue Working with Turkey
ANKARA --- F-35 Joint Program Office on Thursday said it will continue to execute current program plans with all partners and to abide by any future policy directions. "The F-35 Joint Program Offic

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Australia Orders 211 Boxer Armored Vehicles Worth Over €2 billion
CANBERRA --- The Turnbull Government has signed the contract with Rheinmetall for the delivery of 211 armoured combat reconnaissance vehicles which will provide vital mobility, lethality and protectio...

Lockheed, MBDA Receive Second RFP to Develop TLVS for Germany
SCHROBENHAUSEN and DALLAS --- The German Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) has issued a second Request for Proposal (RFP) to the TLVS bidd...

F-35 Joint Program Office to Continue Working with Turkey
ANKARA --- F-35 Joint Program Office on Thursday said it will continue to execute current program plans with all partners and to abide by any future policy directions. "The F-35 Joint Program Offic...

Bulgaria Mulls Refurbished Israeli F-16 Netz Fighters
Israel is in the running to replace Bulgaria’s aging MiG-29s after Sofia gave the green light to replace its Soviet-designed jets. Bulgaria’s parliament approved the plan to buy the jets in June in...

GAO: Availability of HH-60G Helicopters Declining Fast
The material condition of the Air Forces' aging HH-60G fleet has declined and maintenance challenges have increased, in part due to extensions beyond the designed service life of the helicopters. Abou...

UK Purchases Rafael's Counter-UAS System
TEL AVIV -- The United Kingdom has ordered six counter - unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. The British Army is the first customer for the Drone Dome anti-drone syst...

Korean Navy Mulls Operating F-35B Aboard New Amphibs
SEOUL --- South Korea's Navy has put up a public notice of tender for a research project to explore the possibility of operating F-35B stealth aircraft aboard its amphibious landing ship, officials sa...

RAF Chinook Helicopters Ready to Support French in Mali
Three RAF Chinook helicopters from RAF Odiham, supported by around 90 British troops, are now fully operational and are supporting French counter-terrorism operations in Mali. The helicopters, from...

CBO Releases Interactive Tool for Analyzing Military Forces
Yesterday, CBO released an interactive tool for analyzing the military's force structure—a new method for examining an important aspect of defense spending. The tool is one of the many products CBO ha...

Landing Gear RFP Issued for Chinese-Russian CR929 Airliner
China-Russia Commercial Aircraft International Co., Ltd (CRAIC), a joint venture of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC) and Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), released Requ...

Antarctic Airlift Overcomes Polar Hurdles
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. --- For the first time in the 63-year history of Operation Deep Freeze (ODF), members of the 304th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron flew six daily missions in a row, maki...

Sales of Advanced Periscope Systems Seen Rising
The U.S. Navy has recently awarded $20 million in contracts to L3 KEO for production and support of non-penetrating periscopes (NPPs). Work on the first NPPs will be performed in Bologna, Italy and N...

P-8A Poseidon Training Commences in South Australia
Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, and the Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, today announced the handover of the P-8A Poseidon simulator and training systems...

Russia Mulls New Naval Base in Caspian Sea
Being on a working meeting to Dagestan, at present, a harbour for the Russian Navy is being extended, and infrastructure is being developed on the ground. In his address, General of the Army Sergei Sh...

Canada to Conduct NATO Air Policing In Romania
OTTAWA --- The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is sending approximately 135 CAF personnel and five CF-18 Hornets to Constanta, Romania, to participate in NATO enhanced Air Policing from September to Decem...

GA-ASI Expands UAV Flight Test and Training Center in N. Dakota
GRAND FORKS --- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) announced last week that it will be expanding its Flight Test and Training Center (FTTC) at the Grand Sky Unmanned Aircraft System (...

Boeing to Acquire Small-Sat Maker Millennium Space Systems
ARLINGTON, Va. --- Boeing will acquire Millennium Space Systems, a provider of agile, flight-proven small-satellite solutions, under an acquisition agreement that will expand Boeing's satellite and sp...

Three Rostec Units In World's Top 50 Defense Companies
Russian Helicopters, Uralvagonzavod and KRET have been included on the list of the world's leading defense companies of 2017 compiled by the renowned American magazine Defense News. All three of the R...

Royal New Zealand Air Force Orders CAE NH90 Simulator
MONTREAL -- The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has awarded CAE a contract to provide the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) with a CAE 700MR Series NH90 flight training device (FTD). The contrac...

Rostec to Present a Record Number of Exhibits at Army 2018
State Corporation Rostec will present more than 450 models of weapons and new developments at the Army 2018 Forum that is due to take place on August 21–26 in Kubinka in the Moscow Region. The models ...

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