NP Aerospace in Coventry has been awarded an 81M contract, to convert Cougar 4x4s into the awesome Ridgback armoured vehicles for our troops in Afghanistan.>> A total of 157 Ridgback vehicles will roll off the production line at NP Aerospace having undergone an integration process that will include additional protection, weapons, communications systems and specialist electronic counter-measures equipment
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The technology-driven Indian aerospace sector would generate around $30 billion in offsets opportunities in India in the coming years, according to Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major. The India Strategic show daily for the India Aviation 2008 released here Tuesday quoted the air chief as saying that the IAF was under an unprecedented "transformation" requiring an investment of around $100 billion for aircraft, equipment and infrastructure over the next couple of decades
Trung Ngo, Vice President Sales, Asia-Pacific, is spearheading Bombardier Commercial Aircraft's sales efforts in India with a team of experienced aviation sales executives. Dubbed "Team India", Mr
MCLEAN, Va. --- ITT Corporation today announced it has been selected by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to perform telemetry, tracking and command services for near-Earth missions under the Space Communications Network Services (SCNS) contract
Andrew Hoehn, Director of RAND Project Air Force, made the following statement today:>> Recently, articles have appeared in the Australian press with assertions regarding a war game in which analysts from the RAND Corporation were involved.>> Those reports are not accurate
LONG BEACH, Calif. --- Early this morning, the Sea Launch Company successfully delivered the Galaxy 19 satellite to orbit from its ocean-based platform on the Equator
The Minister for Defence, the Hon Joel Fitzgibbon MP, announced today that he has received the independent report of the Defence Procurement and Sustainment Review the Mortimer Review conducted by Mr David Mortimer AO.>> In May of this year the Government fulfilled yet another key election commitment by commissioning well known businessman David Mortimer to undertake an independent review of the Defence Materiel Organisation and the effectiveness of Australias defence procurement systems, Mr Fitzgibbon said
> The newly appointed Shadow Minister for Defence Senator David Johnston has roundly criticised the Rudd Government for sitting on an important decision on Australias air combat capabilities for five months.>> Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon received the Air Combat Capability Review in May, but is yet to decide if the Joint Strike Fighter will become Australias leading edge combat aircraft
>Accepted by the US Navy on Sept. 18, the future USS Freedom is the first Littoral Combat Ship to enter service