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Thales To Equip French MRTT With TopShield-400 Antenna System
May 7, 2015 @ 02:18 PMThales announced today that it has been awarded contract for its new TopShield-400 Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna system (CRPA) for the future French Tanker. Thales will provide Airbus Defense & Space with its new GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna system TopShield-400 to equip the 12 MRTTs (multi-role transport tanker) ordered by the French Procurement Agency (DGA)
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India, France To Set Up Teams For Rafale Acquisition Deal In 'Time...
May 6, 2015 @ 12:29 PMIndia and France will set up team to discuss the acquisition of 36 Dassault Rafale fighters in a ‘time bound manner. A short statement from India's MOD said after the Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar met his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian in Delhi today to flag off the acquisition process
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US Defense Secretary's Visit To India To Focus On Major Military Deals
May 2, 2015 @ 08:17 AMUS Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will be signing a 10-year Indo-US Defense framework Agreement and also fast-track the Defense Trade and Technology Initiative (DTTI) under which the two nations will co-produce and develop military equipment in India, IHS Janes reported Thursday. US defense secretary Ashton Carter's two-day visit to India in early June is expected to raise the levels of bilateral strategic and defense co-operation between the two countries, IHS Jane's quoted senior Indian military officials as saying
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Raytheon Wins $20 Million DARPA Contract For Hypersonic Missile Development
April 30, 2015 @ 02:59 PMRaytheon announced Wednesday that it has won a $20 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop and demonstrate technology to enable air-launched hypersonic boost glide systems for missiles for the Tactical Boost Glide program (TBG). The hypersonics will enable missiles to fly more than five times faster than speed of sound
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DARPA’s EXACTO Guided Bullet Demonstrates Repeatable Performance Against Moving Targets
April 28, 2015 @ 02:43 PMDARPA announced Monday that its Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program developed self-steering bullet has demonstrated repeatable performance against moving targets. EXACTO developed a self-steering bullet to increase hit rates for difficult, long-distance shots, completed in February its most successful round of live-fire tests to date
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Indian Army Develops New Human Resource Management Software
April 27, 2015 @ 11:13 AMThe Indian Army and HCL has co-developed a software application, dubbed human resource management system (HRMS 2.0) designed to make various administrative functions integrated and web-enabled by being lodged in the servers of the unit level formations
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South Korea, Peru To Co-operate In $1 Billion Trainer Jet Project
April 22, 2015 @ 03:44 PMSouth Korea, Peru have agreed on mutual co-operation in Perus US$1 billion next-generation light attack aircraft project, Yonhap Agency reported Tuesday. South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Monday she agreed with her Peruvian counterpart Ollanta Humala on cooperation in Peru's trainer jet project, a move that could raise the prospect of a South Korean defense firm winning a lucrative deal
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India,France Likely To Finalize Rafale Deal By May End
April 22, 2015 @ 11:16 AMIndia and France may finalize procurement of 36 Dassault Rafale fighters for the Indian Air Force (IAF) by the end of May, IHS Janes reported Monday. IHS Janes believes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi might have insisted on the deadline with his French Counterpart Francois Hollande soon after the announcing the procurement of the fighters on 10th April
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C-17 Globemaster Likely To Replace New Zealand's Aging C-130s
April 17, 2015 @ 11:01 AMThe New Zealand Defense Force might purchase NZ$600 million worth two Boeing C-17 Globemaster aircraft to replace its aging five Hercules C-130 fleet. Some of the Hercules fleet is already 50-years-old, various media reported Wednesday
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US Navy Demonstrates Swarming Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
April 15, 2015 @ 04:13 PMOffice of Naval Research (ONR) announced Tuesday that it recently demonstrated swarming unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of the Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) program. LOCUST can launch swarming UAVs to autonomously overwhelm an adversary
U.K. Navy's New Drones Can Trick Sea Mines into Exploding Harmlessly
Turkey’s ASELSAN Demonstrates Laser Defense System Against Infrared-Guided Missiles
Russia Targets Patriot Battery in Kyiv as Germany Pushes for New U.S....
Dutch Intelligence: Russia Using WWI-Era Chemical in Ukraine
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
Four-legged Robots Vs. Military Dogs
Four legged robots that resemble dogs are increasingly being seen in war zones and exercises for functions such as reconnaissance...
Lockheed Martin Faces Billions in F-35 Cuts Under U.S. Policy Shift
Americas policy of controlling F-35 usage, spares, and maintenance—combined with President Donald Trumps threats of trade wars with Europe, halted...
Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
