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Japan Likely To Develop Stealth Fighter Detecting Radar System

August 17, 2017 @ 01:40 PM

Japanese Defense Ministry has requested 19.6 billion yen ($178 million) budget funding in 2018 for developing a next generation new radar system that has increased capacity to identify Russia and China designed advanced stealth fighter jets
US Marine Corps Requests Additional 50,000 M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles

August 16, 2017 @ 10:37 AM

The US Marine Corps has requested additional 50,000 M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles to replace the M4 carbine that infantry and other units currently use. Earlier in March, the marine had requested to produce and deliver 11,000 IARs, Marine Corps Times reports
Lockheed Martin Wins $8B Special Ops Global Logistics Support Services Contract

August 12, 2017 @ 07:57 AM

Lockheed Martin has won $8 billion Special Operations Forces Global Logistics Support Services (SOF GLSS) contract. The SOF GLSS contract shall provide non-personal, global logistics support services and expertise to maintain program support and Enterprise management functions for Program Executive Office of the Special Operations Forces Support Activity, US department of defense said in a statement Friday
Russia’s T-50 Stealth Fighter Jet Designated As 'Su-57'

August 11, 2017 @ 01:39 PM

Russias T-50 (PAK FA) fifth-generation stealth fighter jet has received the serial index designation of 'Su-57' from the Russian Aerospace Forces, its Commander-in-Chief Colonel General Viktor Bondarev said. The nomenclacure change indicates that the development phase is nearing completion and that the aircraft is soon to enter serial production
Chinese Y-8 Military surveillance plane Found Flying Near Taiwan

August 10, 2017 @ 11:03 AM

A Chinese military Y-8 surveillance aircraft was spotted while flying over international waters east of Taiwan Wednesday. The flight path of the Y-8 aircraft as over the Western Pacific Ocean, through the Miyako Strait between Japan's Miyako and Okinawa islands, and into the East China Sea east of Taiwan, the Japan ministry of defense said
Russia's Mi-28UB Combat Helicopter To Be Tested in Syrian Turbulence

August 7, 2017 @ 12:58 PM

Russia is planning to test its newest helicopter Mi-28UB (with dual controls) in Syria. "Currently the Mi-28N helicopter has a crew of two - the pilot and the operator
Pakistan Navy Commissions Third Azmat-class Fast Attack Craft

July 31, 2017 @ 05:44 PM

Pakistan has commissioned its third Azmat-class fast attack craft (FAC), PNS Himmat, which will join the Naval service PNS Azmat and PNS Dehshat acquired from China Shipbuilding and Offshore Company (CSOC) as part of an order for four FACs in 2010. The PNS Himmat has an indigenously built missiles system
Portugal’s Council of Ministers Green Lights Embaer KC-390 Transport Negotiation Talks

July 28, 2017 @ 03:21 PM

The Portuguese Council of Ministers on July 27 authorized the defense ministry to open negotiations to buy five Embaer KC-390 twinjet tanker-transports with an option for a sixth aircraft. Along with five aircraft purchase, The Cabinet resolution, now published in the Portuguese government gazette, Diário da República, also mentions logistics support and a Category-D full-flight simulator to be installed and operated in Portugal,
South Korean Surion Helicopter To Undergo Formal Tests Again

July 27, 2017 @ 10:47 AM

The Surion chopper, developed by South Korea's sole aircraft-maker Korea Aerospace Industries, will be undergoing anti-icing system tests again after countrys audit agency deemed KUH-1 helicopter to be unfit for flight missions. The nation's arms agency Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said Thursday that it's preparing for a test on Surion's anti-icing system in the United States
Airbus Tests Unmanned Jet-Propelled Demonstrator, Sagitta

July 19, 2017 @ 10:52 AM

Airbus has successfully tested an unmanned jet-propelled demonstrator with the project name Sagitta. The UAV flew autonomously for around seven minutes over the test site in Overberg, South Africa, on a pre-programmed course

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