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Fincantieri to Build New Fleet Tanker for the Indian Navy

October 30, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

On the occasion of the international exhibition Euronaval – the most important trade fair for the defence industries currently in progress in Paris-Le Bourget – Fincantieri has announced the company has gained an order to build a fleet tanker for the Indian Navy. Following previous orders to Russian industries, this is the first order for a surface vessel for which India has chosen a foreign company, Fincantieri, which competed to win the order against leading international players, especially from Russia and Korea
Israel Aerospace Industries Announces Delivery of the 1st Heron UAV to Canada

October 30, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) delivered today the first Heron UAV system to the Canadian Air Force. IAI and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd
Australian Super Hornet Facilities Project Given the Go-Ahead

October 23, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

The Minister for Defence, the Hon Joel Fitzgibbon MP, and the Federal Member for Blair, Shayne Neumann MP, announced today that the $117.1 million facilities project to support the introduction of the new F/A-18F Super Hornet has received Parliamentary approval
Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) Receives Milestone C Approval for Entry Into...

October 22, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

MINNEAPOLIS --- The AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) program has successfully completed a Milestone C review and received approval for entry into Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP). Mr
FLIR Systems Announces $28.9 Million Order From Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

October 21, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

PORTLAND, OR --- FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today that it has received a $28
Finmeccanica and Mubadala Create Industrial Partnership

October 21, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

ROME and ABU DHABI --- Finmeccanica, the Italian leading aerospace, defence and security company, and Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), an Abu Dhabi-based business development and investment company, today announced an agreement - signed at the presence of the Cabinet Undersecretary Gianni Letta - for a hi-tech industrial partnership.>> The Italian company will partner with Mubadala to manufacture aerospace composite components for civil aircraft at the recently announced Abu Dhabi-based composites plant
Navantia Launches the First Patrol Boat for Venezuela

October 20, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

San Fernando-Puerto Real shipyard, in Southern Spain, launched on 16th October the first of the series of four BVL patrol boats for the control of the coast that Navantia is building for the Venezuelan Navy.>> The ship was named Guaicamacuto and her godmother was Mari Carmen La Riva de Quintana
Jet crisis shrouds India Aviation show in Hyderabad

October 18, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

After a break of six months, the airport at Begumpet in the heart of Hyderabad has come alive as it is to be the venue of the civilian air shows. India Aviation 2008 exposition, spread over four days, is the first in the series of such shows, to be held once every two years that offers high drama with a wide range of aircraft on the ground
2008, a year of helicopters: Tyagi

October 18, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

The last one year has witnessed several developments in helicopter services, so much so that 2008 has come to be known as the Year of Helicopters in India. This was stated by R
Raytheon Receives $24.3 Million for Production of Towed Decoys

October 17, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

GOLETA, Calif. --- Raytheon Company has received a $24

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