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CAE Wins $117 Million Multiple Simulation And Training Contracts
July 7, 2015 @ 02:53 PMCAE has won multiple defense contracts that include MH-60R maintenance and rear-crew trainers for Royal Australian Navy, two UH-72A Lakota FTDs for US Army, two full-mission simulators for undisclosed customer in the Europe/Middle East/Africa region. CAE today announced that the defense contracts are valued at more than C$150 million (US $117 million) to provide simulation products as well as training services for global military customers
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Airbus Unveils Bluecopter Eco-friendly Helicopter Demonstrator
July 7, 2015 @ 02:44 PMAirbus Helicopters today unveiled its Bluecopter demonstrator which promises quieter and more fuel efficient rotorcraft flights. “With Bluecopter, we have met our goals of decreasing fuel consumption by 40 percent, significantly reducing CO2 emissions, and lowering noise to approximately 10 decibel effective perceived noise (EPNdB) below ICAO noise certification limits, while raising the maximum payload and the passenger comfort
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Russia Developing Fifth Gen Nuclear Powered Watercraft
July 7, 2015 @ 02:26 PMRussia is developing two fifth generation nuclear powered watercraft “Aircraft carrier killer” and “underwater interceptor” to expand its submarine fleet. The submarines' project is part of a $350 billion military modernization program
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Russia’s New Sonar To Undergo Tests Later This Year
July 7, 2015 @ 02:17 PMRussias new sonar claimed to capture sounds of fourth generation nuclear submarines will undergo trails at Russias Northern Fleet by the end of this year. “The transmitter/receiver unit of the Batareya (Battery) sonar will be lowered to around 300 meters into the water 30 kilometers from the White Sea coast to pick up submarine sounds and send the date up via a fiber optic cable,” Sergei Tsygankov, one of the new sonars designers was quoted as saying by Sputnik today
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Russia Set To Develop Stealth Corvette
July 7, 2015 @ 01:26 PMRussia is developing a Rusich 1 trimaran stealth corvette that can shoot straight even in a Force 6 storm conditions. A small prototype of the Rusich 1 corvette was unveiled during a recent naval show in St
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Thales, IAI Integrate Data Link Capability On Heron UAV
July 7, 2015 @ 12:41 PMIsrael Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Thales have conducted risk reduction flight tests for the integration of NATO STANAG 7085 data link on board the Heron Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (MALE UAV). Through a joint effort between IAI and Thales, Thaless data link terminal, the TMA 6000, together with Elisra Radio Frequency Modules and antennas, have been integrated on board the Heron system and successfully demonstrated in flight
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Indian Army To Issue RFI For Assault Rifles To Replace INSAS
July 7, 2015 @ 11:34 AMThe Indian Army is likely to issue a new RFI (Request for Information) for a new single caliber assault rifle to replace its INSAS rifle after it scrapped a four-year-old tender for purchasing 1.8 lakh multi-caliber weapons
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Agustawestland Delivers Three AW139 Helicopters To Italian Coast Guard
July 7, 2015 @ 10:01 AMAgustawestland today has delivered three AW139 intermediate twin aircraft and has signed an order for two additional aircraft with Italian Coast Guard. “The AW139s will be used to perform a range of missions including maritime patrol, search and rescue (SAR), and emergency medical services
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AM General Wins $373 Million Humvee Contract for Ukraine, Mid-East Countries
July 7, 2015 @ 09:44 AMThe US DoD has awarded AM General a $373 million contract to provide 2,082 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), or Humvees. “The contract includes spare parts and Humvees in a multi-year foreign military sale to Afghanistan, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Ukraine and Tunisia,” the US Department of Defense said in a statement Monday
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Finmeccanica Re-negotiates Five-Year Revolving Credit Facility
July 6, 2015 @ 04:15 PMFinmeccanica has renegotiated the five-year revolving credit Facility that envisages the payment of a spread of 100bp above Euribor, 80bp less than the previous conditions. The size was also reduced to 2 billion euro, compared to the former 2
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Modern Tank Showdown: T-90MS, Leopard 2A7, M1E3 Abrams Compared
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European Nations Prioritizing Europe-made IRIS-T & SAMP-T over American Patriot Air Defense Systems?
European nations looking to procure new air defense systems appear to be giving the much-vaunted American Patriot a miss in...
Russian T-90MS Crew Discuss Future Upgrades
Defense Mirror spoke with the crew members of the Russian T-90MS main battle tank, produced by UralVagonZavod
China's Mass-produced J-35A Aircraft Set to Disrupt Global Stealth Fighter Market
China is aiming to disrupt the global stealth fighter market by mass-producing its fifth-generation J-35A at a pace comparable to...
The Future of Combat: Miniaturized Laser Weapons Set to Replace Bullets and Missiles
Lasers may soon replace bullets, and drones could disable enemy UAVs with beams of light instead of missiles