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Turkish Engine Center Announces $1 Billion of Maintenance Work
October 15, 2008 @ 12:00 AMSINGAPORE --- MRO ASIA -- The Turkish Engine Center, a Pratt & Whitney and Turkish Airlines Technic joint venture, will support an existing 10-year engine maintenance agreement between Turkish Airlines and Turkish Technic when it opens in mid-2009. The work is estimated to be worth more than $1 billion to the Turkish Engine Center and will extend through 2016
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America's Self-Destroying Air Power: Becoming Your Own Peer Threat
October 14, 2008 @ 12:00 AMA new report entitled Americas Self-Destroying Air Power Becoming Your Own Peer Threat examines the impact of a crisis in aircraft procurement on tactical, strategic, and enabling capabilities of US air power. It draws on recent government and other reports to describe the problems in US aircraft procurement and their impact on US air power and the challenges the next administration will face in force planning and budgeting
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New Defense Secretariat Will Centralize Helicopter Purchases for the Armed Forces
October 14, 2008 @ 12:00 AMBRASILIA --- The Ministry of Defence will create a new secretariat for the acquisition of certain materil and equipment intended for the Navy, Army and Air Force, and including the new helicopters to be produced by Helibras. The announcement was made by the Minister of Defence, Nelson Joabim, during a visit to the headquarters of the army air corps (Aviao do Exrcito) in Taubat (Sao Paolo state)last Wednesday [Oct
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General Dynamics to Produce M2 Heavy Barrel Machine Guns
October 14, 2008 @ 12:00 AMCHARLOTTE, N.C
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SAIC Awarded $254 Million Contract by the Defense Intelligence Agency
October 10, 2008 @ 12:00 AMSAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va. --- Science Applications International Corporation today announced it has been awarded a contract by the Defense Intelligence Agency to support the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC)
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Russian communication complexes trigger immense interest at arms show in Greece
October 9, 2008 @ 12:00 AMRussia became one of the key members of the international arms show Defendory-2008 in Athens. Omsk Manufacturing Association named after A
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Air Force Gets Last Batch of F-15K Fighters
October 9, 2008 @ 12:00 AMThe Air Force received its last batch of three F-15K fighters Wednesday from Boeing in the United States under the 40-plane first-phase F-X program to introduce 120 high-end multi-role combat aircraft, Air Force officials said.>> With this latest addition the Air Force has a total of 39 F-15K aircraft, since a unit crashed in the waters off Pohang, some 320 kilometers southeast of Seoul, during a night mission in June 2006
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Day & Zimmermann and ATK Joint Venture Awarded Contracts to Operate Army...
October 9, 2008 @ 12:00 AMPHILADELPHIA --- American Ordnance, a joint venture led by Day & Zimmermann, has been awarded a contract with the U.S
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Raytheon Assembles Team to Pursue U.S. Army Operations, Planning, Training and Resource...
October 9, 2008 @ 12:00 AMRESTON, Va. --- Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, has signed teaming agreements with more than 45 large and small business partners to pursue the Army's Operations, Planning, Training and Resource Support Services (OPTARSS) II contract
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Harris Corporation Awarded $140 Million Order Under New IDIQ Contract From the...
October 8, 2008 @ 12:00 AMMELBOURNE, Fla. --- Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has received a $140 million order to provide systems integration and information technology (IT) services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
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Ukraine to Receive Gripen-E Fighter Jets in 2029, Its First All-New Western
KNDS Suspends Initial Public Offering Due to “European Defense Market Volatility”
One Month Since U.S., Israeli War Against Iran: Who Is Gaining?
One month after the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran on February 28 the conflict has expanded...
Modern Tank Showdown: T-90MS, Leopard 2A7, M1E3 Abrams Compared
Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) have shown their mettle in recent conflicts such as in Ukraine despite being increasingly vulnerable to...
European Nations Prioritizing Europe-made IRIS-T & SAMP-T over American Patriot Air Defense Systems?
European nations looking to procure new air defense systems appear to be giving the much-vaunted American Patriot a miss in...
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