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Boeing Offers Advanced Harpoon Missile To US Navy
May 13, 2015 @ 03:56 PMBoeing has offered an upgraded anti-ship and land attack weapon, which doubles the range of the services existing Harpoon to US navy. The Harpoon Next-Generation is a sea-skimming land, submarine, air or surface launched missile guided by GPS and inertial navigation systems for destroying a range of targets such as enemy ships, small boats and land targets, Military
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Russia To Develop Multi-purpose Armoured Vehicle
May 13, 2015 @ 03:04 PMRussian defense ministry has decided to develop a multi-purpose unified engineering armoured vehicle, which will bear a machine gun, means of radio electronic combat and GLONASS system. This project costs about $6
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GE Aviation Wins $2 Billion Contract To Support Taiwan, US Military Services
May 12, 2015 @ 11:08 AMGE Aviation has won a $2 billion contract from the US Department of Defense (DoD) for supplying helicopter engines to Taiwans government and to support various US military services. The location of the labor and funding will be decided with each order and the expected date of completion is Dec
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Russia Sets To Develop Amphibious Armored Engineer Vehicles
April 30, 2015 @ 12:55 PMRussia's Defense Ministry has started to develop amphibious armored engineer vehicles that are equipped with machine-guns, electronic countermeasure devices and GLONASS navigation system for its army. The next-generation unified vehicles will be capable to withstand temperatures ranging from -40°C to +40°C and will be used for earth-moving works on the battlefield, as well under enemy fire
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Pratt & Whitney Wins $325 Million VAATE III Contract
April 29, 2015 @ 03:07 PMPratt & Whitney announced today that it has been awarded $325 million contract for Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engines (VAATE) III and beyond. The VAATE program is a joint government and industry effort to develop revolutionary and innovative technologies by the 2017 timeframe that will permit an order of magnitude increase in turbo-propulsion affordability over the year 2000 state-of-the-art technology
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Northrop Grumman To Provide Gyrocompass Navigation Systems For Canada's Kingston Class Vessel
April 27, 2015 @ 02:17 PMA Royal Canadian Navy has selected Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit to design and supply gyrocompass navigation systems for 12 Kingston Class coastal defence vessels. The company announced on Monday that it has been selected as a subcontractor to SNC-Lavalin Defence Programs
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Maersk Line Vessels To Get Navigation Systems Upgrade From Northrop Grumman
April 27, 2015 @ 11:19 AMNorthrop Grummans Sperry Marine business unit has been selected to upgrade radar and ECDIS systems on more than 80 Maersk Line vessels. The upgrade will replace all previous radar and ECDIS systems on these vessels and will be carried out in Asia and Europe, from 2015 through 2017
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Gripen, Rafale, US Aircraft Contenders For Swiss Fighter, Eurofighter Opts Out
April 22, 2015 @ 02:57 PMSwedish Gripen, a US fighter and French Rafale are major contenders for the Swiss fighter aircraft but the Eurofighter has opted out without providing any reason, Swiss Defense Minister Ueli Maurer said Monday. “The situation was critical for air policing and that the purchase of new fighter aircraft will be evaluated in 2017
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Northrop Grumman Wins $105 Million Contract To Support Large Aircraft Infrared
April 17, 2015 @ 11:12 AMNorthrop Grumman has won a $105 million modification contract to provide equipment and support to Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) in the calendar year 2015. Work is expected to be complete by April 29, 2017
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DCNS Starts GOWIND 2500 corvettes Construction For Egyptian Navy
April 16, 2015 @ 12:33 PMDCNS has started to construct GOWIND 2500 corvette, which is the first of a series of four units that will be delivered to Egypt before 2019. The delivery of the first vessel is slated for 2017 that is less than four years after the signature of the contract last summer, the company announced on Wednesday
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Modern Tank Showdown: T-90MS, Leopard 2A7, M1E3 Abrams Compared
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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