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Oshkosh Defense Submits Proposal for M-ATV Program Based on Combat-Proven, Production-Ready MTVR
January 13, 2009 @ 12:00 AMOSHKOSH, Wis. --- Oshkosh Corporation, announced today that its Defense division submitted its proposal for the U
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France Chooses Sagem to Design the Datalink System for Tomorrow's UAVs
January 13, 2009 @ 12:00 AMPARIS --- French defense procurement agency DGA has chosen Sagem (SAFRAN Group) over a field of competing companies to design the datalink system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). According to the terms of the contract - dubbed Lido, French acronym for Drone Data Link - Sagem will define all data links intended for future UAV systems: line-of-site and satellite links needed for both air vehicle control and operating the onboard sensors
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Iranian Entities’ Illicit Military Procurement Networks
January 12, 2009 @ 12:00 AMOn September 17, 2008, the United States District Court of the Southern District of Florida unsealed a federal grand jury indictment against sixteen foreign individuals and companies involved in procuring items with military applications for Iranian entities through Dubai and Malaysia-based trade networks.>> Those under indictment allegedly violated U
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Boeing Completes Apache Longbow Training Upgrade Contract
January 12, 2009 @ 12:00 AMST. LOUIS --- Boeing announced today that its Integrated Defense Systems Training Systems and Services organization has completed a six-year U
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Training, UAVs, Key to Army Aviation in the Field
January 12, 2009 @ 12:00 AMWASHINGTON --- Army aviation commanders discussed the importance of continual training and the value of unmanned aerial vehicles in the field at the Association of the United States Army's Aviation Symposium and Exposition Jan. 8
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MoD Takes Delivery of "Souped-Up" Combat Vehicles
January 9, 2009 @ 12:00 AM>An upgraded Scimitar CVR(T). The Light Dragoons will be the first British Army unit to train on the new vehicles
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Long-Term Implications of the Fiscal Year 2009 Future Years Defense Program (Excerpt)
January 7, 2009 @ 12:00 AMWhat amount of budgetary resources might be needed in the long term to carry out the Bush Administrations current plans for defense? This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paperprepared at the request of the Chairman and the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committeeaddresses that question.>> />> In CBOs projection of DoDs current plans, defense resources average about $549 billion annually (in 2009 dollars) from 2014 to 2026, or about 6 percent more than the $517 billion in total obligational authority (TOA) requested by the Administration and the $515 billion in TOA provided by the Congress for 2009
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Radio Program Enables Speedy Personnel Recovery
January 7, 2009 @ 12:00 AMHANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. --- Officials of the Electronic Systems Center delivered the 20,000th Combat Survivor Evader Locator radio to operators in the fall of 2008, and now are on track to deliver an additional 20,000 to warfighters
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Op Red Dagger Strikes in Helmand
January 6, 2009 @ 12:00 AM>A Danish Leopard II tank provides overwatch during Operation Sond Chara in Southern Afghanistan (UK MoD photo)A massive British led operation in Afghanistan has seen 1,500 troops involved in two weeks of fierce fighting in rain and mud to successfully secure a large area of Central Helmand province previously under Taliban influence.>> Operation SOND CHARA began in mid-December and lasted throughout the Christmas period
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Teamwork Shown As Airmen Respond to Helicopter Crash
January 6, 2009 @ 12:00 AM>A civil-registered Puma helicopter damaged during supply operations in Afghanistan. Unusually, this helicopter carries no indication of its commercial operator
QinetiQ Works With U.S. Army on New Long-Range Sensor System
Russia Preparing to Give Hell to German Helsing Drones
Spain Selects U.S. Firm Skydio to Supply Surveillance Drones
Diehl Defence Unveils Sky Sphere System with New Cicada 'eMissile'
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...
NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
Recent NATO exercises such as the BALTOPS-24, Steadfast Defender 2024 and its first-ever Basic Fighter Maneuvers exercise have been its...
Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...
Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U