France doubled its arms sale to 16 billion euors in 2015 as against 8.3 billion in 2014 and may be a close third behind Russia as the worlds largest arms exporter for the year
Dassault has recorded more sales of its Rafale fighter jets than the business class Falcon aircraft in 2015. Dassault has sold 48 Rafale split evenly between Qatar and Egypt whereas it won orders for 45 Falcon corporate jets in 2015
Indian experts have drawn specifications required for the purchase of counter mortar radars capable of tackling shelling on the Indo-Pakistani borders. A committee of experts were assigned the task of formulating specifications by the Home Ministry in August last year
The United States has delivered four A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to the Afghan Air Force. Afghanistans Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri told the Pajhwok Afghan News agency on Friday that the jets would help bolster the countrys Air Force
Kaman Aerosystems (Kaman) has secured a contract extension for Northrop Grummans E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and C-2A Greyhound Outer Wing Panel Program The extension is for an additional three years (2015-2018) with an expected value of over $11 million for the fabrication and supply of sheet metal and extrusion parts to CPI Aerostructures, Inc. (CPI)
Airbus Helicopters today delivered next generation AS365 N3+ helicopters for Lithuanias search and rescue missions with around-the-clock availability. The Lithuanian Ministry of Defence and the Lithuanian Armed Forces assigned their three new AS365 N3+ helicopters to the 24/7 SAR mission service today, the company announced Friday
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy commissioned a new tank landing ship Tianmushan during a ceremony at a naval port of the East China Sea Fleet on January 12. Domestically built ship, with 119
Serbia has signed a protocol to establish a regional center for servicing Russian-made helicopters in Serbia, the Serbian Defense Ministrys press service said on Wednesday. The signing of a protocol was done by Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic and First Deputy Director of Russias Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Andrey Boitsov
Three former employees of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) were charged in the State Courts of Singapore on 13 January for their involvement in the corruption racket. As part of 2011 investigation launched by Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB), former ST Marine employees - chief operating officer Han Yew Kwang, President of commercial business Tan Mong Seng (Tan) and Senior Vice President Mok Kim Whang (Mok) are charged under the section 477A of the Penal Code of the Prevention of Corruption Act
The US Department of Defense has awarded two contracts total worth $79 million for development of rocket propulsion system prototypes for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. As per terms of the Air Force contracts, the two awardees ATK Launch Systems Inc