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AM General To Procure 150 Humvee Combat Vehicles For Iraqi Forces
March 29, 2017 @ 09:54 AMAM General has won a contract worth $28 million from the US Army to procure 150 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled vehicles (HMMWV or Humvee) for the Iraqi forces. “AM General LLC, South Bend, Indiana, was awarded a $28,195,632 modification (P00025) to foreign military sales (Iraq) contract W56HZV-15-C-0155 to procure 150 M1151A1B1 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled vehicles for the government of Iraq,” the US Department of Defense announced Tuesday
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Northrop Grumman To Provide LITENING Multi-Sensor Targeting System For Danish F-16 Aircraft
March 15, 2017 @ 11:16 AMNorthrop Grumman won a contract to provide the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) with pods containing a multi-sensor targeting and surveillance system known as LITENING for use on F-16 aircraft. LITENING allows coordinated air-to-ground and air-to-air capabilities, data links for cooperative targeting, laser spot search and track, laser markers and J-series weapons employment capabilities
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IDEX 2017: Future F-16 Fighter Jets To be Made in USA
February 22, 2017 @ 11:54 AMFuture customers of F-16 fighter jets will get them shipped from the USA, a Lockheed Martin executive said implying an end to licence-manufacture of the aircraft in foreign countries. Rick Groesch, Lockheeds regional vice president, was quoted as saying at the IDEX 2017 show in Abu Dhabi yesterday, "The next customer that we sell F-16 to we will build them in the US
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Foreign Customer Testing China’s CH-4 Networked Drones
February 6, 2017 @ 02:29 PMTeams from a foreign military customer of Chinas CH-4B series of attack drones recently tested four such drones networked to perform as a fleet. Networked attack drones could be a formidable force multiplier in a battlefield scenario with each drone ‘assigned to one or several target which eliminates the need for bombing populated areas such as during the war in Yemen or Syria
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IS Unveils ‘Drone Weapon’ Based On US-Built MQ-9 Reaper
January 25, 2017 @ 01:07 PMIslamic state, a Jihadist militant group in Iraq and Syria, have unveiled a new deadly ‘drone weapon through a video that is modelled on a US design. Based on US-built ‘MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle, these drones are filmed carrying out an attack on US-backed allied forces, the first by the terrorist group,
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Day After Trump Inauguration, Russia Attacks Daesh Targets in Syria With Tu-22M3...
January 21, 2017 @ 02:26 PMA day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president, Russian launched one of its deadliest attacks against Islamic State in Syria with six T-22M3 bombers that took off from Russia and dropped bombs at Daesh targets near Dier ez-Zor. The bombers were covered by Su-30SM and Su-35S fighter jets that flew from Hmeymim air base in a coordinated strike
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Second Libyan MiG-23 Fighter Shot Down In A Week
January 16, 2017 @ 02:49 PMA MiG-23 fighter jet flown by forces loyal to Libyan government was shot down as it carried out raids on jihadist positions over Benghazi. This is the second fighter jet to go down in the past week
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Iraqi Mi-35 Gunship Chopper Crashes, 4 Killed
January 5, 2017 @ 12:28 PMAn Iraqi attack helicopter crashed on Wednesday due to a technical failure killing all four crew members during an army aviation mission. “During this morning, an aircraft crashed south of the Mosul battlefield, due to a technical failure,” the Joint Operations Command (JOC) coordinating the fight against the IS militant group said in a statement
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Over 1500 Saudi Citizens Fighting For Terrorist Groups In Syria
December 27, 2016 @ 11:19 AMSaudi Arabia has officially admitted that some 1500 of its citizens are fighting for various terrorist organizations including the Islamic State in Syria. “As many as 2,093 Saudis are fighting abroad alongside terror outfits,” the Middle Eastern country confirmed
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Islamic State Adopts Practices Similar To National Military Forces To Manufacture Weapons
December 14, 2016 @ 08:57 AMIslamic State forces have adopted similar practices to national military forces to manufacture improvised weapons including cast mortar round casings, rocket components, explosives and propellants. According to a report by London-based Conflict Armament Research (CAR) investigation carried out between 11 and 16 November 2016 documenting six weapon manufacturing facilities operated by IS forces, IS forces operate a ‘Central Organisation for Standardisation and Quality Control (COSQC), which falls under the authority of the groups ‘Soldiers Bureau, Committee for Military Development and Production
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