US Navy Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Conducts Initial...
More than 2,000 PCU Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Sailors participated in the ship's first fast cruise exercise, May 3-5, in Newport News, Virginia. A fast cruise is a simulated underway, designed to...
View ArticleAirbus Helicopters to overhaul French Sécurité Civile's EC145 fleet
Airbus Helicopters has been awarded a contract by the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) to retrofit the avionics suite of the 35 EC145 helicopters operated by the Sécurité Civile, an agency of...
View ArticleGermany's TKMS Offers Type 214 Diesel Electric Submarines to India for P75I
Germany is offering TKMS Type 214 submarines to India on government-to-government contract, according to Economic Times of India newspaper. The latest offer is for the P75I (Project 75 India)...
View ArticleThailand could procure four more Gripen fighter jets
According to Chinese media Xhinua, Thailand might probably buy four more Swedish jet fighters to add to a current squadron of 12 fighters of the same type, said Deputy Prime Minister Prajin Juntong on...
View ArticleU.S. Navy Delivers First MH-60R Seahawk Helicopters to Danish Defense
Three MH-60R Seahawk helicopters departed Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation’s William P. Gwinn Airfield May 10, aboard two C-17 aircraft to join their new home with Air Squadron 723, Karup Air Base in...
View ArticleSouth Korea to deploy 100 more K2 tanks against North Korea
According to the Korea Herald, South Korea's military is pushing to field some 100 additional units of the locally built K2 Black Panther tanks to strengthen frontline defense against North Korea, a...
View ArticleIndia’s Defense Acquisition Council approves S-400 system purchase
India’s Defense Acquisition Council has approved the purchase of five S-400 Triumf (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler) air defense missile systems from Russia, Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar...
View ArticleIran equips M60 Main Battle Tanks with anti-TOW jamming sytems
Iranian Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Ahmadreza Pourdastan announced that the Iran has equipped its M60 tanks with jamming systems to disturb performance of TOW and other anti-tank guided...
View ArticleParamount Group's Mwari light multirole aircraft officially enters defense...
Paramount Group, the African-based global defence and aerospace company, today announced the launch of Mwari, a military variant of its Advanced High Performance Light Aircraft (AHRLAC) that comes with...
View ArticleFrench Air Force pilots get a feel of the C-130J airlifter at Ramstein air base
Representatives of the French Air Force visited with US Air Force airmen at the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein air base, for a presentation on aircraft features and capabilities after recently...
View ArticleTwo new C-130J Super Hercules delivered to USAF and US Coast Guard
The US defense giant Lockheed Martin recently delivered two C-130J Super Hercules aircraft: one HC-130J long range surveillance/search and rescue aircraft to the U.S. Coast Guard and an MC-130J...
View ArticleFrench Navy E-2C Hawkeye and Rafale M in Tiger Meet Livery
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) released pictures of an E-2C Hawkeye and Rafale M fighter painted in a special livery for the 2016 NATO Tiger meet to be held next week in BA Zaragoza, Spain. Read More
View ArticleU.S. delivers armored MRAP vehicles to Egyptian military
On Thursday, May 12, the first shipment of MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicles from the United States arrived in the port of Alexandria for delivery to the Egyptian military. The heavily...
View ArticleRussian Helicopters' Future High-Speed Helicopter development program...
The Russian Helicopters Holding is creating a scientific and technical groundwork for the production of combat helicopter on the basis of perspective high-speed helicopter (PSV) in order to be ready...
View ArticleRussian Navy Caspian Flottila Project 11661 Frigate Tatarstan Completes...
The Russian Gepard-class frigates (Project 1166.1) Tatarstan which is the flagship of the Caspian flotilla has completed modernization, the press service of the Southern military district said.Read More
View ArticleFormer US Navy KC-130R tanker delivered to Chilean Air Force
United States' Tactical Airlift Program (PMA-207) foreign military sales (FMS) team delivered a KC-130R Hercules May 2, from the U.S. Navy fleet to the Chilean Air Force (Fuerza Aérea de Chile:...
View ArticleAT&T receives a $74m contract from US Defense Department
AT&T announced Wednesday May 11, it has been awarded a U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency contract worth up to $74.6 million over five years.The telecom company AT&T has been awarded a...
View ArticleU.S. Navy Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System At NSF Deveselu in Romania Now...
U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th (CNE-CNA/C6F), recognized a key milestone to complete Phase II of the European Phased Adaptive Approach by deeming the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System in...
View ArticleBelgium's F-16 fighters will start bombing Daesh in Syria from July
Six F-16 fighter jets from the Belgian Air Force will start bombing missions in Syria from next July, the belgian minister of Defense Steven Vandeput announced today on the local radio VTM. According...
View ArticleRussian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to go to sea in late June after...
Russia’s Project 11435 aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov will go to sea in late June after repairs, a source in the Russian defense and industrial sector told TASS on Thursday. "There are plans to...
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