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UK Awards $29 Million To Refurbish RAF Runway
February 10, 2016 @ 09:46 PMThe UKs Defence Infrastructure Organization (DIO) has awarded a contract to refurbish one of two runways at RAF Valley to a joint venture of North Stone and White Mountain. The £20 million contract will be used to refurbish the runway as well as link taxiways and provide a new section airside perimeter road, new visual aids, aeronautical lighting and signage, UK Ministry of Defense said in a statement Wednesday
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Pakistan Tests Nuke Capable Air-Launched Cruise Missile
January 20, 2016 @ 08:17 AMPakistan has successfully flight tested indigenously developed Air-Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM), Raad Tuesday. Raad, with a range of 350km, “enables Pakistan to achieve air delivered strategic standoff capability on land and at sea,” Dawn news daily cited the Inter-Services Public Relations as saying Tuesday
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Finmeccanica Won $485 Million Tetra PIT Mobile Radio Service Contract For Italian
January 5, 2016 @ 11:16 AMFinmeccanica 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
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Finmeccanica Signs Tetra PIT Radio Service Contract For Italian Police
December 31, 2015 @ 02:13 PMFinmeccanica has signed a contract with the Italian Ministry of the Interior to implement a Tetra-based mission-critical national mobile radio service assuring secure communications for Police Forces. The contract aims to provide Police Forces with greater technological and operational uniformity, in line with the Government's investment policy in the security sector and in combatting terrorism, the company said in a statement Thursday
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Communications System Upgrade For Russian S-400 Missile Defence System
December 29, 2015 @ 08:55 AMRussia is developing Tuf-MA and Tuf-M2 communication systems for its S-400, S-500 and Vityaz air missile defense systems to evade enemy surveillance. “The new S-400, S-500 and ‘Vityaz missiles will have the Tuf-MA and Tuf-M2 systems installed in them
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France Orders Additional Eight A330 MRTT Aircraft
December 16, 2015 @ 02:33 PMFrance has ordered additional eight A330 Multi-role Tanker Transport Aircraft from Airbus. The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) has placed the order
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Raytheon Wins $543 Million To Produce 17 SM-3 Block IIA Missile For
December 10, 2015 @ 05:48 AMThe US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded a $543 million contract to Raytheon to produce and deliver up to 17 Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA interceptors for operational testing and initial deployment Wednesday. The contract comes a day after Japans Ministry of Defense along with US Missile Defense Agency successfully tested Standard Missile-3 interceptors
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Few Defense Manufacturers In India May Qualify For Strategic Partnership
November 30, 2015 @ 01:22 PMIndia's defense ministry task force has proposed weightages and assets criteria that permit only few Indian private defense manufacturers to qualify for strategic partnerships. The task force, known as Aatre, was set up to identify Indian private companies as strategic partners for development of critical military platforms such as aircraft, warships and armoured fighting vehicles
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India To Discuss FGFA, Multi-Role Transport Aircraft With Russia Next Month
October 21, 2015 @ 11:37 AMIndian defense minister Manohar Parrikar will be discussing the delayed fifth generation fighter aircraft development program along with multi-role transport aircraft on his visit to Moscow next month. The minister will co-chair a meeting of Inter Governmental Commission on Military Technical Co-operation (IRIGCMTC) on November 2
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No Sales Commissions For Indian Arms Agents
October 12, 2015 @ 10:51 AMIndia will come up with new set of guidelines that will remove sales commissions to arms agents later this month. Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar speaking at a public interaction event in Panaji, Goa on Sunday said, “Giving percentage is very risky in India
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Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
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NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
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Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
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