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Did Sweden's State-Run Defense Research Institute Break China Arms Embargo?

September 4, 2014 @ 02:39 PM

Swedish Defence Minister Karin Enström has demanded an explanation from the general director of the state-run FOI defence research institute, over an alleged weapon's co-operation with China, according to Radio Sweden."Sweden should not get around the weapon's embargo on China and therefore I have called on the general director to...

Saab To Provide Norwegian Army With New Gen Simulators

August 29, 2014 @ 03:33 PM

Saab has been awarded a contract from the Norwegian Army for development and serial deliveries of the new generation GAMER vehicle simulators (a dual-simulator training system). The total order amounts to SEK 142 million

UAE To Buy Ground Tactical Data Link Systems

August 28, 2014 @ 02:35 PM

Tactical Communications Group (TCG) won a contract to provide its Ground Tactical Data Link Systems (GTS) hardware and software components, as well as engineering and operational TDL services, training, and system maintenance, to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces. The award is the first Direct Commercial Sale between the...

Post US, EU Sanctions, Russia Looks to China for Defence Components

August 28, 2014 @ 11:22 AM

China may supply components required for Russias defence industry following US and EU sanctions against Russia. Although Russia does not buy many weapons from foreign sources it does procure a lot of electronic and mechanical components to be used in its weapons systems

Northrop Grumman, Partners Win $2.5 Billion CANES Shipboard Networks Contract

August 22, 2014 @ 09:09 AM

Northrop Grumman has won a contract along with four others to upgrade cybersecurity, command and control, communications and intelligence (C4I) systems for the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) of the US Navy. The contract is valued at $2

Indonesian Air Force To Procure Airbus Radar, Surveillance Equipments

August 19, 2014 @ 02:34 PM

Airbus Defence and Space has won a contract from Indonesia to provide its Air Force with the latest aircraft identification and air surveillance equipment, thus improving the air traffic control and air defence capabilities over the country's more than 15,000 islands. The company has been awarded a contract by SBL Star Technology Pte Ltd

Bulgaria Announces Weapons Upgrade Program

August 19, 2014 @ 10:54 AM

Bulgaria has announced a $680 million program to upgrade its weapons in an effort to minimize its dependency on Russia by 2020. Defense Minister Velizar Shalamanov said that the ministry aims to ensure that Bulgarias defense industry takes part in the designed program

QinetiQ Unveils Airborne Communications Surveillance Systems

August 11, 2014 @ 09:06 AM

QinetiQ has unveiled a new range of airborne communications surveillance systems. The ASX system is modular with a range of configurations allowing it be used on large, medium and small manned or unmanned aircraft

Raytheon To Study Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar For US ONR

July 3, 2014 @ 02:44 PM

Raytheon has been awarded a $6 million study and demonstration contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to further develop an Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR). Raytheon's EASR concept leverages proven Radar Modular Assembly (RMA) architecture matured on Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR)

Honeywell's Inertial Measurement Unit Improves Guides Control For Missiles, UAVs

June 19, 2014 @ 01:01 PM

Honeywell has announced the latest addition to its tactical guidance technology product line with a smaller, higher performing and more efficient Inertial Measurement Unit for missiles, smart munitions and unmanned aerial vehicles. This device improves the measurement for guidance, control, stabilisation and pointing applications, adding even more precision where GPS is not available

Exelis Acquires Next-Gen Data Sharing Solutions Company Celestech

June 13, 2014 @ 10:16 AM

Exelis has completed the acquisition of Celestech, a privately held technology development and engineering firm, with locations in Chantilly, Virginia and Phoenix, Arizona. Celestechs acquisition does not materially impact Exelis financial results for the second quarter of 2014

US ONR Developing Laser Weapon For Marines

June 12, 2014 @ 02:19 PM

As the Navy prepares to deploy its first laser weapon on a ship later this summer, Office of Naval Research (ONR) officials announced June 11 that they have finished awarding contracts to develop a similar weapon to be used on ground vehicles. The Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy On-the-Move program, commonly referred to as GBAD, aims to provide an affordable alternative to traditional firepower to keep enemy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from tracking and targeting Marines on the ground

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