Russia To Receive Second Nuclear Submarine By Year End
The Russian Navy is likely to receive a second Borey-class nuclear-powered submarine, the Alexander Nevsky, around the end of November or early December this year. “The Alexander Nevsky has completed...
Northrop Grumman To Build Three More USAF Global Hawks
Northrop Grumman has won a $114 million advance procurement contract in preparation to build three more high-flying RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and associated sensors. The combat-proven intelligence, surveillance...
General Dynamics Completes US Army Combat Vehicle Design Review
General Dynamics completed a successful Preliminary Design Review with the U.S
Alenia Aermacchi Begins Israeli M-346 Trainer Jet Assembly
Alenia Aermacchis plant in Venegono has begun assembling Israel's first M-346 advanced jet trainer which will replace the TA-4 Skyhawks currently in service. The three major components of the first...
Thales Acquires XPI Simulation To Strengthen Training And Simulation Capability
Thales today announced that it has acquired XPI Simulation Ltd – in order to strengthen its position as a global training and simulation provider within the land market. XPI Simulation specializes...
Iraq Receives First Four Mi-35 Russian Helicopters
Iraq takes delivery of the first four Russian-made Mi-35 helicopter gunships as part of a multibillion dollar weapons deal. Iraq expects to receive a consignment of around 40 Mi-35 and Mi-28NE attack helicopters by the end...
Vietnam To Get Two More Russian Submarines Next Year
Russia will deliver the two more Varshavyanka class diesel-electric submarines to Vietnam in 2014, a Russian official was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti. The Varshavyanka-class (Project 636) is an improved version of the Kilo-class submarines...
Ricardo To Build Thai Black Widow Armored Vehicles
Ricardo has been selected to work on the next phase of its Black Widow Spider 8x8 armoured vehicle programme in support of the Royal Thai Army. The Defence Technology Institute (DTI) – the Thai ministry of...
Northrop Grumman Wins $178 Million E-8C JSTARS Contract
Northrop Grumman has won a $178 million contract to continue sustaining the service's entire E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft. The contract awarded by the U
Rolls-Royce To Continue Servicing US Navy T-45 Trainer Aircraft Engines
Rolls-Royce has won a $50.7 million contract to provide continued support for the F405 (Adour) engines that power the US Navy's T-45 training aircraft
BAE Systems To Develop Next Generation Guided Projectile
BAE Systems has won a $33.6 million contract to develop and demonstrate a Hyper Velocity Projectile (HVP), with its initial phase to be completed by June 2014
DynCorp Wins $86.6 Million Aircraft Logistics Support Contract
DynCorp International (DI) has won a subcontract to provide contractor logistics support in Afghanistan, as part of the Multi Sensor Aerial Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (MAISR) Operations and Sustainment program. The subcontract has a one-year base period...
One Month Since U.S., Israeli War Against Iran: Who Is Gaining?
One month after the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran on February 28 the conflict has expanded...
Modern Tank Showdown: T-90MS, Leopard 2A7, M1E3 Abrams Compared
Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) have shown their mettle in recent conflicts such as in Ukraine despite being increasingly vulnerable to...
European Nations Prioritizing Europe-made IRIS-T & SAMP-T over American Patriot Air Defense Systems?
European nations looking to procure new air defense systems appear to be giving the much-vaunted American Patriot a miss in...
Russian T-90MS Crew Discuss Future Upgrades
Defense Mirror spoke with the crew members of the Russian T-90MS main battle tank, produced by UralVagonZavod
China's Mass-produced J-35A Aircraft Set to Disrupt Global Stealth Fighter Market
China is aiming to disrupt the global stealth fighter market by mass-producing its fifth-generation J-35A at a pace comparable to...
The Future of Combat: Miniaturized Laser Weapons Set to Replace Bullets and Missiles
Lasers may soon replace bullets, and drones could disable enemy UAVs with beams of light instead of missiles