The Ministry of National Defence Republic of Poland has placed an additional order for 200 AMV 8x8 vehicles from Patrias Polish partner Rosomak S.A
The Philippine military signed a pact with the US Navy last Friday to buy two secondhand C-130 transport planes for territorial defense and humanitarian operations. “The United States is helping us pay for these two aircraft”, said Colonel Restituto Padilla, a spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Philippines was quoted as saying by Reuters
The US Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk and other variants of Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NGC) High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) series have set a record by flying more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) mission hours in one week than ever before. The UAS series flew 781 hours from 10-16 September 2014
Indian defense ministry is likely to come out with a new “simplified and time-bound” defense procurement policy (DPP) by March this year. Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar speaking at a seminar during the Vibrant Gujarat summit on Sunday said that he has been trying to decode the DPP 2013 for the past two months after he assumed office in November 2014
Dassault has offered the latest version of the Rafale fighter, the F3R for nearly double the price of the F3 version it originally bid with in the Indian fighter aircraft competition. The company is reportedy insisting that India take the latest version as the French company is upgrading aircraft in the French Air Force to the F3R version and all future aircraft manufactured will be of the latest version
The US may offer some of its latest defence products for joint production in India under the Defence Trade and Technology Initiative (DTTI) as part of a new 10 year defence framework pact. The pact is expected to be signed during the visit of US President Barak Obama to New Delhi later this month
According to Strategic Defence Intelligences (SDI) latest report, the US C4ISR market is estimated to value US$65 billion in 2014, and is anticipated to increase at a CAGR of 1.34% to reach US$74
North Korea has possibly gained the ability to strike the U.S
The US Army is considering upgrading the Iraqi armys M1A1 tanks with rotating, remotely operated machine guns to attack snipers as well as to detect roadside or suicide-bomb vehicles. The tank upgrades built by General Dynamics could also include belly armor; lightweight reactive armor tiles; improved night-vision sensors from Waltham, and Raytheon Co
China officially launches a new website on military weapon procurement which facilitates the defense procurements of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Launched yesterday under the PLAs General Armament Department, weain