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Chinese S-400 Shoots Down Ballistic Missile Target in Test
December 24, 2018 @ 12:37 PMThe Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) shot down a ballistic missile target during a test fire of one of its S-400 air defense missile systems. The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) of China test fired one of the S-400 missile defense systems it bought from Russia in May 2018
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Krauss-Maffei To Supply Leopard Battle tanks, Howitzers to Hungarian Army
December 20, 2018 @ 07:39 PMGerman defense company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) will supply Hungarys land forces with 44 new Leopard 2 A7+ main battle tanks and 24 new PzH 2000 howitzers. The contract also includes procuring 12 used Leopard 2 A4 main battle tanks from KMWs inventories for training purposes
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BAE Systems, General Dynamics to Build Mobile Protected Firepower Prototypes
December 18, 2018 @ 11:57 AMBAE Systems and General Dynamics have won a combined $710 million to build new light combat vehicle prototypes under the United States Mobile Protected Firepower initiative. BAE Systems was awarded a $376 million contract and General Dynamics won $335 million for Mobile Protected Firepower middle tier acquisition and rapid prototyping effort with low-rate initial production options, the US Department of Defense said in a statement Tuesday
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Huntington Ingalls Launches Delaware Virginia-class Nuclear Submarine
December 18, 2018 @ 10:37 AMHuntington Ingalls Industries has launched the recently christened Virginia-class submarine Delaware (SSN 791) into the water for the first time at the companys Newport News Shipbuilding division. During a three-day process that began last Wednesday, the 7,800-ton submarine was moved out of a construction facility and into a floating dry dock using a transfer car system, the company said in a statement Monday
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Lockheed Martin to Provide Targeting, Night Vision Services for Apache helicopters
December 15, 2018 @ 12:51 PMLockheed Martin has won $10 million Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract for support services for the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/ Pilot Night Vision Sensor for the Apache Attack helicopter. The Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two
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Raytheon Wins $149M to Develop SM-2 Block III
December 15, 2018 @ 10:25 AMRaytheon has won $149 million for the engineering, manufacturing, and development of Standard Missile-2 Block IIIC. The Standard Missile-2 or the SM-2 has two variants as of now- SM-2 Block IIIA and IIIB
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Pakistan Navy Inducts ATR-72 Maritime Patrol Aircraft, Sea King Helicopters
December 14, 2018 @ 12:31 PMThe Pakistan Navy (PN) inducted its first ATR-72-based Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) and two refurbished, ex-Royal Navy Westland Sea King (one HAR3A and one HC4) naval helicopters on Wednesday. The HAR3A was configured for search-and-rescue (SAR) operations and the HC4 will serve as a troop carrier,
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Kalashnikov Rifles Production To Begin in India in 2019
December 14, 2018 @ 11:11 AMIndo-Russian JV to manufacture Kalashnikov rifles is likely to begin production in India in 2019, Russian Deputy Defense Minister, Alexander Fomin said, after the Russian-Indian intergovernmental commission meeting on military technical cooperation on Thursday. The Indian defense minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu co-chaired the meeting
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General Atomics Wins $40M to Provide Services on Gray Eagle UAS
December 14, 2018 @ 09:40 AMGeneral Atomics has won a $40 million modification contract for services on the Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The Gray Eagle is a Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE) UAS having an endurance of 25 hours, and speed up to167 KTAS (Knots True Air Speed)
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General Dynamics Wins Submarine Fire-control System Research Contract
December 14, 2018 @ 08:07 AMGeneral Dynamics has won a $35 million modification contract for research and development, and sustainment efforts for the US SSBN Fire Control Sub-system (FCS), the UK FCS and the US SSGN Attack Weapon Control System, including training and support equipment and US/UK Shipboard data system. Work is expected to be completed by September 2019, United States Department of Defense said in a statement Thursday
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