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France to Order 12 More Rafale Fighters, 10 NH90 Special Forces Helicopters
PARIS --- France will order "by the end of the year" 12 additional Rafale fighter jets to replace the twelve aircraft that will be taken from the French Air Force inventory and supplied to Greece, Fre

Russia Says Zircon Missile Attains Mach 8, 450km Range During First Firing Test
Russian President Vladimir Putin has already praised the successful test launch of a Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, describing it as an important event for the country contributing to the nation's

Status of US Air Force’s Next-Gen Air Dominance Fighter Program
On September 15, 2020, U.S. Air Force acquisition executive Dr. Will Roper announced that the Air Force had flown a full-scale flight demonstrator as part of the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) p

Status of US Air Force’s Next-Gen Air Dominance Fighter Program
On September 15, 2020, U.S. Air Force acquisition executive Dr. Will Roper announced that the Air Force had flown a full-scale flight demonstrator as part of the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) p...

France to Order 12 More Rafale Fighters, 10 NH90 Special Forces Helicopters
PARIS --- France will order "by the end of the year" 12 additional Rafale fighter jets to replace the twelve aircraft that will be taken from the French Air Force inventory and supplied to Greece, Fre...

Russia Says Zircon Missile Attains Mach 8, 450km Range During First Firing Test
Russian President Vladimir Putin has already praised the successful test launch of a Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, describing it as an important event for the country contributing to the nation's ...

Esper Calls for 500-Ship Navy to Counter China
The U.S. Navy will need more than 500 ships in its fleet to ensure maritime superiority over China in coming decades, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Oct. 6. That conclusion is based on the lo...

Taiwan Prepares Arms Shopping List for US
Officials and military experts from Taiwan and the United States will meet via video conference to discuss which weapons would be best for the island’s self-defence as tensions escalate between the tw...

Boeing Forecasts First-Ever Drop in Aerospace Market Boeing Forecasts Challenging Near-Term Aerospace Market with Resilience in Long Term
CHICAGO --- Boeing today released its annual forecast for the commercial and defense aerospace market, reflecting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and Boeing's view of near-, medium- and long-term ...

China’s Navy Begins Fielding New J-15 Carrier-Capable Fighters
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has likely received a new batch of J-15 carrier-based fighters. Recent video footage released on “Military Express” shows a J-15 with a tail number of “31” and...

Australia Earmarks A$270Bn to Upgrade Defense Force to 2030
The Morrison Government remains committed to keeping Australians safe, while protecting the nation’s interests as part of Australia’s COVID-19 Economic Recovery Plan, in a rapidly changing global envi...

German Shipyard Lays Down Eighth K130 Corvette
On Tuesday, October 6th, 2020, the keel-laying of the eighth corvette will take place during a ceremony at the Wolgast Peene shipyard. The corvette will be named "Karlsruhe". Due to the corona pandemi...

GE Gas Turbines to Power Pakistan's New MILGEM Corvettes
EVENDALE, Ohio --- GE Marine announced it has signed a contract with STM (Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik Ve Ticaret A.Ş.), Ankara, Turkey, to provide LM2500 marine gas turbines to power the Pakis...

US ‘Deeply Concerned’ As Turkey Begins Testing Russian S-400 Missiles
Turkey is planning to conduct a comprehensive test of the S-400 missile-defense system it purchased from Russia next week, according to people familiar with the matter. The air force isn’t activati...

RBSL Wins £16M to Upgrade British Army’s Fox NBC Recce Vehicles
RBSL has won a UK MoD contract to upgrade and sustain the British Army’s fleet of Fuchs/Fox CBRN reconnaissance vehicles and training simulator. The order is worth over £16m/€17.5m. The Fuchs is a ...

Understanding Egypt’s Military Expenditure
Egypt has one of the largest military forces and inventories of major weapons in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). However, based on the official figures provided by the government, Egypt’s mil...

Lockheed Wins $78M for Littoral Combat Ship Design Services
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Baltimore, Maryland, is awarded a $78,530,376 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-18-C-2300 to exercise options for the a...

Airbus Wins First Six Orders for A220 Corporate Jets
TOULOUSE, France --- Airbus Corporate Jets has won its first orders for the ACJ TwoTwenty totalling six aircraft following its launch. While Comlux has revealed an order for two aircraft, four further...

Brazil Begins Final Modernization of Tucano Training Fleet
The first T-27 Tucano aircraft of the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) is in the final stage of the modernization process. The plane is used for cadet instruction flights at the Air Force Academy (AFA), loca...

Elbit Wins $50M US Army Contract for Helicopter Systems
HAIFA, Israel --- Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that its U.S. subsidiary, Elbit Systems of America, LLC, was awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (ID/IQ) contract with a maximum val...

US Army Readies Charging Ports for Autonomous Drone Swarms
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. --- A swarm of hundreds of unmanned air vehicles will soon descend on unmanned ground vehicles to autonomously recharge, thanks to U.S. Army-funded research now underway a...

GD Wins $100M Defense Intelligence Agency IT Contract
FALLS CHURCH, Va. --- General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics, announced today it was awarded an IT system modernization contract by the Defense Intelligenc...

US, Bulgaria Sign 10-Year Military Cooperation Agreement
Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper and Bulgarian Minister of Defense Krasimir Karakachanov signed a 10-year road map charting defense cooperation between the two countries over the next decade. Bu...

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