Nammo has won a $48 million contract from the US army single Manager for conventional Ammunition (SMCA) to provide shoulder launched Multi-purpose Assault Weapon (SMAW) Common Practice Rocket (CPR) ammunition to the US Marine Corps. This is the first delivery order against the 5 year contract which has potential for deliveries of three types of 83mm SMAW Ammunition, the company announced Monday
The US Army Material Command and Rockwell Collins have signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement for implementing strategies and initiatives to optimize efforts needed to supply advanced products and services to war fighters. “The shared goal of this agreement is to achieve quicker contracting, by leveraging and expanding existing contract vehicles and increasing the speed of business
AM General has won a $42 million HMMWV vehicles and parts contracts for Iraq, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Israel, Turkey, Kenya, Lebanon and the US. The recently announced contracts noted above cover items to include new production vehicles, international ambulance vehicles, automotive kits, spare parts and training
Babcock has won a five-year contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to deliver engineering services to the Navy. The aviation and engineering support and aircraft services (AESAS) contract includes the provision of forward maintenance and aircraft engineering for Merlin, Sea King, Lynx and Wildcat helicopters, general airfield engineering services and support to aircraft operations, the company announced Monday
Indian Air Force has decided to order 100 modified Tejas aircraft apart from 20 planes, which had been ordered previously. Indian air force believes that by acquiring the aircraft Pakistan can perform better that the JF17 and would beat the Pakistani competitor on four parameters like reach, weapons, ability to kill and survivability
Saab has received an ammunition order from US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) for the Carl-Gustaf man-portable weapon system. The order is a part of the contract announced in August 2014 for the 84-mm recoilless rifle system
The US Army will formally issue a request for proposals for production of Boeing CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter fleet in a Block 2 configuration by March 2016. At a press briefing at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), the armys project manager for cargo helicopters, Col
Russian researchers are working on new computer software that will trawl social networks for IS militant recruiters. The researchers are working on reconstructing the profile of a potential recruiter to Islamic state through social networks
Russia is equipping its aircraft including the new PAK FA fighters with several variants of a new air-to-surface missile. The missile projectiles known as X-59MK2 and X-58USHKE are designed to destroy located stationary ground targets
Russia has denied using Buk missile in the Malaysian MH17 flight crash that happened last summer and says that it was done by the missile in possession of Ukrainian troops within three-four kilometres area. The official report however have concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile fired from rebel-held eastern Ukraine