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US Navy To Equip MQ-8C Fire Scout With Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s Osprey Radar...
October 17, 2016 @ 08:35 PMUS Navy will be equipping its newly-upgraded unmanned helicopter MQ-8C Fire Scout with Leonardo-Finmeccanicas Osprey electronically scanned radar, helping expand crews surveillance capabilities aboard US combat ships. The helicopter will be launched from the decks of US naval combat vessels to keep watch for distant threats
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Germany To Nearly Double Defense Spending
October 17, 2016 @ 07:06 PMGermany will be increasing its defense spending to 2 per cent from their economic output in line with an agreement that NATO states reached in 2014. “Germany would drastically increase defense spending in the coming years to move towards the NATO target for member states to spend 2 percent of their economic output on defense,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday
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Leonardo-Finmeccanica Exhibits 'Naval Cockpit' For Integrated Ship Managment At Euronaval 2016
October 17, 2016 @ 03:56 PMLeonardo-Finmeccanica is exhibiting a “naval cockpit” that enables the integrated management of ship-board operations with a vessels combat system at the ongoing Euronaval 2016. The new Combat Management System features a modular and reconfigurable open architecture that can be customized depending on the demands of a given mission
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China To Sell 8 Submarines To Pakistan
October 17, 2016 @ 03:25 PMChina Shipbuilding has officially confirmed Wednesday that it will be providing eight S-20 submarines to Pakistan. China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation confirmed this project at a conference held to discuss the details of the arrangement
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India-Russia Helicopter JV To Manufacture 190 Helicopters in 9 years
October 17, 2016 @ 02:31 PMThe Russian-Indian enterprise created by Russian Helicopters, JSC Rosoboronexport and India's HAL Corporation must arrange the localization of production and supply of 200 light multirole Ka-226T for 9 years. The first 60 helicopters will be produced in Russia, and the production of the remaining 140 helicopters is being planned in India
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Geoff Hoon To Depart AgustaWestland
October 17, 2016 @ 02:05 PMFormer UK Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon who was AgustaWestland's international director, has announced his intention to leave the company. In an email to media contacts Monday, Hoon said, “After almost six years of working with AgustaWestland, now is the right time for me to move on to new challenges
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India Faces Shortage Of Interpreters To Translate Intercepts Of Terrorist Conversations
October 17, 2016 @ 01:18 PMIndian army is facing shortage of trained interpreters in Urdu, Pashtun and Dari to translate the intercepted conversation between terrorists. Though shortage of trained men to interpret has existed for long, it has become a major issue now as the agencies are picking up frequent chatter after the Sep 29 surgical strikes, the
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Pakistan Uses India's 'Surgical Strike' To Launch Cyber Attack: Local Media
October 17, 2016 @ 12:35 PMPakistan is launching a cyber war, using computers and virus-laden emails to ‘attack Indian Army. Spoofed emails with the subject line ‘Actual Story of Surgical Strike are being sent by the hackers to Indian army
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Taiwan Eyes New Defense Tech Wing Similar To US DARPA
October 17, 2016 @ 12:32 PMTaiwan will establish a new defense technology department with an allocation of NT $3 billion on the lines of US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to boost indigenous capabilities. The new military department, to be officially established next January, will be responsible for developing "groundbreaking" and "innovative" technologies for national defense and to drive development of the industry, Col
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S-400 Air Defence System Can Be A Game-changer For India
October 17, 2016 @ 11:31 AMIndia and Russia last week signed a $5 billion deal to acquire five new generation Russian S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems along with other defense equipment. The deals were announced following talks held between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit on Saturday
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Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
Recent NATO exercises such as the BALTOPS-24, Steadfast Defender 2024 and its first-ever Basic Fighter Maneuvers exercise have been its...
Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...