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France Sets up Heavy Bombs Factory, to End US Imports

October 11, 2019 @ 10:33 AM

France expects to end dependency upon the United States for fighter jet- launched heavy bombs following the setting up of a factory to manufacture various types of bombs. The plant of a local bomb-making firm, Paris Rafaut, near Valenciennes was inaugurated earlier this week by defence minister Florence Parly
Iraq to get Lockheed’s M1A1-SA Platoon Mobile Advanced Gunnery Training System...

September 24, 2019 @ 07:58 AM

Lockheed Martin has won a $9.7 million Foreign Military Sales (Iraq) contract for procurement of Mobile M1A1 Situational Awareness (SA) Platoon Mobile Advanced Gunnery training system
Lockheed Wins US Navy's Super Hornet IR Search and Track System Contract

September 21, 2019 @ 07:20 PM

Lockheed Martin has won a $24 million contract for the procurement of five infrared receivers and eight control processors in support of the F/A-18 Infrared Search and Track System. This is a four-year contract with no option periods, the US Department of Defense said in a statement Friday
US Navy To Commission USS Billings Littoral Combat Ship

August 1, 2019 @ 07:04 AM

The United States (US) Navy will commission its latest Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future “USS Billings” (LCS 15) on Saturday, August 3, in Key West, Florida. The ship is designed to defeat asymmetric "anti-access" threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft
US Navy To Induct New Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer on July

July 25, 2019 @ 07:46 AM

The United States (US) Navy will
France To Order 150 Additional Griffon Armoured Vehicles

July 5, 2019 @ 09:07 AM

France is likely to order 150 additional VBMR Griffon multi-role armoured vehicles, Florence Parley, Minister of the Armed Forces of France said on July 4, during the ceremony held to accept the delivery of first of the ordered 1,722 VBMR 6x6 Griffon vehicles. “Concerning the Griffon, it will be 150 more vehicles that will be ordered, to reach 1872 copies by 2030,” Parley
French Defence and Intervention Frigates Steel Cut in October 2019

June 28, 2019 @ 12:58 PM

The first steel cut for the French Navys defence and intervention frigates (FDI), the fully digital warships that will be among the most modern anywhere in the world, will take place in October this year. Naval Group teams are in the process of launching the program for the FDIs that will be delivered from 2023 onward, a Naval Group release said on the occasion of the completion of the Normandie frigate which marks the completion of the FREMM shipbuilding program
US’ Letter On Russian S-400 Systems “Not In Spirit Of The Alliance”:...

June 12, 2019 @ 11:13 AM

The letter sent by US Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan on the Russian S-400 missile defense system is "not in spirit of the alliance,” Hulusi Akar, Defense Minister of Turkey said Wednesday. Shanahan, in a letter to Hulusi Akar dated June 6, stated that the Pentagon has suspended training of new F-35 Turkish pilots
Pentagon Demands Turkish F-35 pilots leave US by July 31 Over

June 8, 2019 @ 04:09 AM

The Pentagon has suspended training of new F-35 Turkish pilots, and told Ankara the current students must leave the country by July 31, as new details about the rift with Ankara over its plans to purchase Russia's S-400 missile system come to the fore. Acting US Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan in a letter to Hulusi Akar, Turkeys defense minister dated June 6, wrote that the 42 Turkish students attending F-35 training at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona and Eglin Air Force Base in Florida will be required to depart by that date
Airbus to Display “Cheetah” Military Helicopter Mock-up at Paris Air Show 2019

May 27, 2019 @ 01:34 PM

The Airbus Joint Light Helicopter H160M will be christened as “Guépard” (“Cheetah”) by the French Armed Forces for whom its builder, Airbus Helicopters has brought forward the program to 2021. During a visit to the Airbus Helicopters headquarters today, French Defence Minister Florence Parly revealed the full-scale mock up of the H160M that will be presented on the Ministry of the Armed Forces stand at the next Paris Air Show

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