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UK Looks to Reduce Order for Boeing E-7 AEW Planes As Costs Explode: Report
PARIS --- Britain’s Ministry of Defence has opened talks with Boeing to reduce its order for E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft, less than 18 months after signing a $1.98 billion contract t

Airbus CEO Warns Compulsory Layoffs May Follow
PARIS --- European planemaker Airbus will do its best to cut costs without resorting to compulsory redundancies, but it cannot guarantee they won’t happen, CEO Guillaume Faury told French radio statio

US and UAE Aim to Agree on F-35 Deal by December: Report
WASHINGTON --- The United States and the United Arab Emirates hope to have an initial agreement on the sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to the Gulf state in place by December, as the Trump administra

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UK Looks to Reduce Order for Boeing E-7 AEW Planes As Costs Explode: Report
PARIS --- Britain’s Ministry of Defence has opened talks with Boeing to reduce its order for E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft, less than 18 months after signing a $1.98 billion contract t...

Airbus CEO Warns Compulsory Layoffs May Follow
PARIS --- European planemaker Airbus will do its best to cut costs without resorting to compulsory redundancies, but it cannot guarantee they won’t happen, CEO Guillaume Faury told French radio statio...

US and UAE Aim to Agree on F-35 Deal by December: Report
WASHINGTON --- The United States and the United Arab Emirates hope to have an initial agreement on the sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to the Gulf state in place by December, as the Trump administra...

Japan to Seek Record Defense Budget Under Suga's Continuity Policy
TOKYO --- The Defense Ministry will seek a budget of over ¥5.4 trillion for fiscal 2021 — another record — government sources said Monday, as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed to continue with his p...

Swedish Government Decides to Further Boost Defence Spending
The Swedish government has proposed to parliament that the defence sector should be allocated an additional SEK 5 billion in 2021. The decision also concludes that the previous decisions of additio...

Austria MoD Officially Confirms Order for 18 AW169 Helicopters
VIENNA --- The decision has been made: the Ministry of Defense is buying 18 Leonardo AW169M helicopters. The procurement is carried out in cooperation with Italy and amounts to around 300 million euro...

ECA Group Wins Major Contract for Belgian-Dutch Minehunter Program
ECA Robotics, a French subsidiary of ECA Group, has recently signed a contract worth several hundred million euros. This contract comprises the outsourcing to its Belgian subsidiary ECA Robotics Belgi...

Chinese Air-Defense System Seen in Operation with Kyrgyz Military
BISHKEK -- Kyrgyzstan appears to have acquired a Chinese short-range air-defense system. Recent footage of the Kyrgyz military indicates that Bishkek imported the "Flying Leopard 6C," a Chinese-made m...

First Four Super Tucanos Arrive in Philippines
MANILA --– Four out of the six new Embraer Defense and Security A-29 "Super Tucano" close-air support aircraft, which are intended to beef up the Philippine Air Force (PAF)'s close-air support capabil...

Mitre Wins $463M US Air Force R&D Support Contract
The MITRE Corp., Bedford, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $463,002,062 cost reimbursement option contract for support to the Air Force from MITRE as the administrator of the National Security Engine...

HII Wins $355M for SSN Engineered Overhaul of USS Boise
Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, Virginia, is awarded a $351,810,277 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-18-C-4314 for the USS Boise (SSN 764) early production...

BAE Wins Systems Secures Major US Navy Mine Neutraliser Contract
BAE Systems has been awarded a contract worth up to £87 million by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to manufacture and deliver Archerfish mine neutralisers for the US Navy. This is the fourth con...

Airbus Wins €300M Contract for ESA’s New Polar Topography Mission
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany --- The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Airbus to develop and build the Copernicus polar ice and snow topography mission (CRISTAL). With two satellites the CRISTAL mi...

Hill’s F-35 Wings Test Combat Capability
HILL AFB, Utah --- The active duty 388th Fighter Wing and Reserve 419th Fighter Wing participated in a rigorous training exercise this week aimed at testing their combat capability. Pilots and maintai...

Israeli Air Force’s Air-Defense Division Completes Exercise
Last week, the IAF held a "Wargame" exercise with the participation of the Aerial Defense Division commander, Brig. Gen. Ran Kochav, and the division's battalions. The exercise that takes place annual...

Union Blasts Boeing for Closing Down Customer Flight Training
SEATTLE --- On Friday September 18, The Boeing Company delivered layoff notices to its remaining seven Flight Training Airplane (FTA) pilots and will instead send the critical work of providing on-sit...

DOD Half-Way Through Destruction of Stockpiled Chemical Weapons
This month, the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant team at the Army's Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado completed the destruction of nearly 300,000 155mm projectiles, which each contained 1...

NATO Military Committee Gets Virtual Check on Alliance Missions
The NATO chiefs of defense met virtually for the alliance's Military Committee meeting last week. Under the leadership of Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, the chairman of the committee, the chiefs ...

Esper Says New Sanctions on Iran Will Disrupt 'Malign Activities'
President Donald J. Trump today signed an executive order imposing new sanctions on Iran as well as triggering a "snap back," or resumption, of U.N. sanctions on Tehran. Defense Secretary Dr. Mark ...

German Military Launches Space Junk Tracking System
The German armed forces want to keep a closer eye on space in the future. A new system to track space junk orbiting Earth and send out early warnings about potential threats has begun work. German ...

Rolls-Royce Upgrades Facility to Support Canadian Frigate Program
An expansion to the Rolls-Royce Centre of Excellence for Naval Handling Equipment in Canada, has recently completed. The 7,500 sq-ft expansion of the facility based in Peterborough, Ontario will fa...

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