Pakistan Navy has deployed a special marine battalion for increased all-round surveillance at Gwadar Port ahead of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project. “A special Marine Battalion has been raised for security of Gwadar, Chinese engineers and delegates visiting the port,” Radio Pakistan was quoted as reporting by Dawn news daily Tuesday
The Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA), an official army of South Sudan, has admitted to have recently acquire supplies of shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles from an unidentified source, local media reports. A high ranking military officer in the army and a longtime military ally of President Salva Kiir told Sudan Tribune on the New Year Eve that the army had obtained dozens of shoulder missiles
The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has selected BAE Systems to develop new electronic warfare system for the fleet of C-130J aircraft. The contract, worth more than $20 million, is the first phase of a multi-phase program to upgrade aircraft system survivability and the capability to detect, identify, locate, deny, degrade, disrupt and defeat threat systems in operational significant environments
Boeing has won $855 million contract to provide avionics component integration and contractor logistics support for T-38C aircraft, the Pentagon. Work is expected to be completed by Jan
Finmeccanica has signed a $485 million contract to extend the Tetra PIT program with the Italian Interior Ministry on December 31 2015. The Programme is for the implementation of a Tetra‐based mission‐critical national mobile radio service assuring secure communications for Police Forces
Polands public air medical rescue operator LPR has received four new H135 helicopters to extend its Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) operations in Poland. This latest delivery brings the total H135 LPR fleet to 27 units, Airbus Helicopters said in a statement Tuesday
Russias Aerospace Forces has received S-400 Triumph air defence missile system for Moscow and the Central Industrial District, the Russian Defence Ministry told local media on Monday. "A new regimental set of the S-400 Triumph air defence missile system has arrived by train at the place of permanent deployment in the Moscow region from the Kapustin Yar range in the Astrakhan region where systems live fire exercise was held," the ministry was quoted as saying by TASS
Chinas second aircraft carrier and its first operational combat carrier will set sail later this year “based on current progress.” The first ocean-going aircraft carrier combat taskforce of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, led by the new aircraft carrier, will possess initial combat capability in 2018 or 2019, according to an insightful article in China Military sourced from Southern Weekly
Kongsberg has received orders to the Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) program valued 190 million Kroners (US $27 million). The orders with the US Army are for engineering support activities and production preparation for a Low Profile CROWS configuration, the company said in a statement Monday
Cubic Corp has won a $15 million contract to provide Future Study Plan (FSP)/Unified Quest (UQ) events services under the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)s Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC). Cubic will support ARCICs overall efforts for FSP/UQ events including, planning, preparation, execution, assessment and analytical integration, the company said in a statement Monday