ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT --- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today his five-day trip to southeastern and central Europe was important to allies in the region and to relations among NATO nations
WASHINGTON --- Soldiers are now testing Future Combat Systems equipment at Fort Bliss, Texas, and making recommendations for improvement, said a 1st Armored Division NCO Monday at the Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exposition.>> The Army Evaluation Task Force is testing and evaluating FCS Spin Out 1 systems and identifying the best way to use the equipment, explained Sgt
MELBOURNE, Fla. --- Northrop Grumman Corporation flew its new Airborne Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Minefield Detection System (ASTAMIDS) for the first time aboard an unmanned air vehicle
WASHINGTON --- Northrop Grumman Corporation is displaying several Army C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) systems during the Association of the U.S
PARSIPPANY, NJ --- DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today that it completed definitization of an award for $29 million as part of a contract from the U
The Eighth Meeting of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Military- Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-MTC) to be held here tomorrow will cover a broad spectrum of issues including supply of defence systems, equipment upgrade, product and life cycle support for defence equipment of Russian origin.>> The Meeting will also discuss licensed and joint production, joint development and production of systems and platforms, interaction between the two armed forces and military technical cooperation
NEWTOWN, Conn. --- Following a review of the "August War" with Georgia, Russian military commanders have issued a new medium-term modernization and procurement plan
PARSIPPANY, NJ --- DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today that it received a $42 million order to build more than 670 additional M989A1 Heavy Expanded Mobility Ammunition Trailers (HEMATs)
LOCAL defence company Saab Systems South Africa has beaten off competition from major international groups to win a Brigade Headquarters command and control (C2) system contract from Armscor. This system, which will bring the South African Army into the twenty-first century in terms of C2 of deployed tactical units, is also attracting international interest, and could win export orders in the not-too-distant future
DALLAS -- Lockheed Martin has received a $61 million follow-on contract for Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Unitary rockets. To date, more than 850 GMLRS rockets have been fired in the Global War on Terror