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Greece Orders Three French Frigates in €3Bn Deal But No Corvettes
PARIS --- Greece has agreed to buy three FDI Belharra-class frigates from France, with an option for a fourth, the two countries’ leaders announced here today. French President Emmanuel Macron and

Czechs Pick Israel's Spyder Ground-Based Air-Defense Missile in €903M Deal
On Monday, September 27, 2021, the Minister of Defense Lubomír Metnar informed the government about the acquisition of a new ground air defense missile system SPYDER from the production of the Israeli

Boeing Wins $756M Order for Five German P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft
The Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington, is awarded a $756,634,580 fixed-price-incentive-fee modification (P00203) to a previously awarded contract (N0001914C0067). This modification exercises an opti

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Greece Orders Three French Frigates in €3Bn Deal But No Corvettes
PARIS --- Greece has agreed to buy three FDI Belharra-class frigates from France, with an option for a fourth, the two countries’ leaders announced here today. French President Emmanuel Macron and ...

Czechs Pick Israel's Spyder Ground-Based Air-Defense Missile in €903M Deal
On Monday, September 27, 2021, the Minister of Defense Lubomír Metnar informed the government about the acquisition of a new ground air defense missile system SPYDER from the production of the Israeli...

Boeing Wins $756M Order for Five German P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft
The Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington, is awarded a $756,634,580 fixed-price-incentive-fee modification (P00203) to a previously awarded contract (N0001914C0067). This modification exercises an opti...

Lockheed Lowers F-35 Production Goal for 2021 As 700th Aircraft Is Delivered
FORT WORTH, Texas --- The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) and the Lockheed Martin industry team have agreed on an F-35 production re-baseline that ensures predictability and stability in the productio...

US Tests Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon
DARPA, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force, completed a free flight test of its Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) last week. The missile, built by Raytheon Technologies, was released f...

China Complains As British Frigate Sails Through Taiwan Strait
BEIJING --- The British Royal Navy frigate HMS Richmond sailed through the Taiwan Strait on September 27 and openly hyped it up. The Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PL...

Boeing Wins $23.7Bn for C-17 Sustainment Through 2031
The Boeing Co., Long Beach, California, has been awarded a $3,464,266,341 firm-fixed-price, fixed-price incentive (firm target), cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursement-no fee...

Boeing Tanker Hit New Setback on Stray Plastic Cap in Fuel Line
Deliveries of Boeing Co.’s troubled KC-46 tanker were halted for about a month earlier this year after Air Force and company inspectors found a red plastic cap lodged in a fuel valve that caused the u...

India Tests Improved Akash Air-Defense Missile
A new version of the Akash Missile – ‘Akash Prime’ - has been successfully flight tested from Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur, Odisha on 27 September 2021. The missile intercepted and destroyed...

Navantia Shortlisted to Provide CMS for Polish Frigates
Navantia has moved to the next stage in the tender for the supply of the combat management system (CMS) for future frigates of the Polish Navy, along with three other contenders. Navantia has been ...

MD Helicopters Hit With $36 Million Verdict in Fraud Case
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. --- A Huntsville federal court jury verdict Friday could result in a defense contractor having to pay more than $100 million to whistleblowers and the federal government after jurors ...

Canada Confronts Replacement of Submarine Capabilities
OTTAWA, ON --- If Canada wants to respond to the threat posed by a rising China’s naval power, contribute to the defence of itself and its allies, and acquire the patrol and surveillance capabilities ...

Pentagon Awards $214M for New V-22 Flight Control System
Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $214,394,944 cost-plus-incentive-fee order (N0001921F0327) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001917G0002). Thi...

Pentagon Says Missile Defense from Space “Got More Affordable”
The Defense Department hopes, within the decade, to have a meshed network of low Earth orbit satellites — linked together and to warfighters — providing real-time global awareness of missile threats a...

Danish Minister Promotes Defense Exports in Paris
Minister of Defense Trine Bramsen travels to Paris on 27-28. September 2021 to participate in an export promotion for the Danish defense industry in Paris. The Minister, in company with Defense Att...

China to Speed Up Research into New Air Force Strategic Weapons: Report
Yang Wei, chief designer of China's J-20 stealth fighter jet, said that during the country's 14th Five-year Plan (2021-25), Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) will develop the capability of...

Atlas V Rocket Launches Landsat 9 Mission
VANDENBERG SFB, Calif. --- Designed and manufactured by Northrop Grumman Corporation Landsat 9, the latest satellite in the Landsat series was successfully launched today aboard a United Launch Allian...

Production Kicks Off for New Zealand Bushmaster Vehicles
Steel, not ribbon, is cut as the New Zealand Army’s new fleet of 43 multi-purpose armoured Bushmaster vehicles hit the production line in Australia. Production is underway for the first of New Zeal...

Piaggio, Safran Helicopter Engines Partner on Ardiden 3 Engine
BORDES, France and VILLANOVA d’ALBENGA, Italy --- The Italian aircraft and engine-parts manufacturer Piaggio Aerospace and the French company Safran Helicopter Engines have announced today that they s...

US Navy Begins Training with Next-Gen Air Combat Training System
PATUXENT RIVER, Md. --- The Navy's Naval Aviation Training Systems and Ranges program office’s (PMA-205) Tactical Combat Training System Increment II (TCTS Inc. II) and Advanced Naval Technology Exerc...

First Czech AF Pilot Logs 2000 Flight Hours on Gripen
Lieutenant Colonel Michal Daněk is the first Czech Air Force pilot to pass 2000 flight hours in Gripen, which he reached during a flight between Linköping, Sweden and Čáslav in the Czech Republic. ...

Raytheon Opens High-Tech ‘Factory of the Future’ in North Texas
The new factory was months away from being finished, but its designers needed to know right away how the workers would like the new layout. So, they let them in – not to the construction site, but ...

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