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Tunisia Takes Delivery Of First C-130J Super Hercules
April 5, 2013 @ 02:26 PMLockheed Martin delivered the first C-130J Super Hercules to the Republic of Tunisia today, marking the first delivery to an African country. Lockheed Martin signed a contract in 2010 with Tunisia to deliver two C-130Js between 2013 and 2014, in addition to providing training and an initial three years of logistics support
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Navy Plans Re-designing Troubled Littoral Combat Ship
April 3, 2013 @ 07:32 AMThe two variants of the Littoral Combat Ships lack firepower, as their main weapon is a single 57mm automatic gun, more often fitted to fast patrol boats than to frigates, a top U.S
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Cassidian Rolls Out World’s Most Advanced Eurofighter
March 26, 2013 @ 06:04 PMThe Eurofighter IPA 8 (Instrumented Production Aircraft 8) test aircraft has achieved an important production milestone at Cassidian in Manching: with the mounting of the right wing, the connection between the cockpit, vertical tail unit and wings with the fuselage has been completed. “IPA 8 is based on the latest Eurofighter Tranche 3 construction standard and is furthermore equipped with state-of-the-art flight test instrumentation
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Lockheed Martin Completes Miniature Hit-to-Kill Interceptor Flight Test
March 26, 2013 @ 10:59 AMLockheed Martin's Extended Area Protection and Survivability (EAPS) program successfully conducted the first Guided Test Flight to characterize the seeker, guidance, navigation and control systems of its Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) interceptor. The very small and agile interceptor is designed to defeat Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (RAM) targets at ranges greatly exceeding those of current systems
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Textron To Provide APCs To Columbian Army
March 20, 2013 @ 04:02 PMTextron Marine & Land Systems (TM&LS) announced today a $5.5 million contract award from the U
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India Test Fires Submarine-Launched Version Of BrahMos
March 20, 2013 @ 01:05 PMIndia today successfully test fired for the first time the 290 km-range submarine-launched version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in the Bay of Bengal becoming the first country in the world to have this capability. The submarine-launched version of BrahMos was successfully test fired from an underwater pontoon near here, BrahMos CEO A Sivathanu Pillai told PTI
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Northrop Grumman To Supply Fire Scout UAVs To U.S Navy
March 13, 2013 @ 02:28 PMThe U.S
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India’s Indigenous Cruise Missile Goes Off Track During First Test Flight
March 12, 2013 @ 02:56 PMIndia for the first time on Tuesday test-fired its indigenously developed medium range sub-sonic cruise missile 'Nirbhay' from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur. The missile has to be terminated halfway after it deviated from course about 20 minutes after its launch
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Iraqi Probe Finds Ukraine Delivered Low-Quality APCs
March 1, 2013 @ 02:54 PMUkraine has come under fire after a senior Iraqi official accused the country of delivering low-quality armored personnel carriers and breaching the delivery terms of a contract signed in 2009. “A probe into Ukrainian arms deliveries to Iraq revealed corruption with regard to Part 3 of the contract, concerning the sale of 420 armored personnel carriers, of which only about 100 have been delivered to date despite the fact that the contract was ratified several years ago,” Shiwan Muhammad Taha, a member of the Iraqi parliaments security and defense commission, said in an interview with RIA Novosti
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IRKUT Makes a Case for YAK 130 Trainers for India at Aero
February 11, 2013 @ 10:09 AMRussian aircraft manufacturer IRKUT has made a case for the Yak-130 advanced combat trainer to be a part of the Indian Air Force (IAF) fleet. The aircraft which has been inducted into the Russian Air Force to offer both basic and advanced jet training for fourth and fifth generation fighter aircraft is considered a good fit for the MiG-29, SU-30 MKI, the Rafale MMRCA and the potential acquisition of the PAK-FA fifth generation fighter
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China's Mass-produced J-35A Aircraft Set to Disrupt Global Stealth Fighter Market
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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