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India Offers Vietnam $100 Million Line of Credit To Acquire Naval Vessels
October 29, 2014 @ 09:39 AMIndia has agreed to supply four offshore patrol vessels and possibly the BrahMos missile to Vietnam. The announcement came after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with his visiting Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Tan Dung
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Singapore To Deploy Gigantic 180-Foot Surveillance Blimp
October 29, 2014 @ 09:13 AMSingapore has announced plans to deploy a huge tethered surveillance balloon to boost its maritime and air security. The helium-filled "aerostat" will be equipped with radar equipment that can spot threats from as far as 200 kilometres (125 miles) away, according to the ministry of defense website
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Taiwan Grounds AT-3 Training Aircraft Fleet After Crash
October 23, 2014 @ 09:40 PMThe Taiwanese air force has grounded all AT-3 aircraft and suspended their flight missions for the foreseeable future after a AT-3 training aircraft crashed Tuesay, Taipei Times reported. Some officials called for cutting the number of aerial acrobatic shows, saying the AT-3 squadron and its aircraft may have been burdened by having to perform at too many events
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Boeing Supplies Plane Parts To Iran After 35 Years
October 23, 2014 @ 09:14 PMBoeing has sold airplane parts to Iran Air, national flag carrier of Iran, for the first time since the 1979 hostage crisis between Iran and the US,Anatolian News Agency reported Thursday. Boeing has stated in a report that it generated approximately $120,000 in revenues and overall $12,000 net profits during the third quarter of 2014 from Iranian contracts
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Widodo Aims To Diversify Indonesia’s Defense Partnerships, Reduce Foreign Tech Imports
October 20, 2014 @ 01:15 PMIndonesia under President Joko Widodo may see a diversification of defence partners to achieve cost-effective procurement and develop local industry. Earlier this month, Indonesia decided to buy into the South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administrations (DAPA) new mid-level fighter jet program
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Iran Inaugurates Production Line of Three Advanced Indigenous Radar Systems
October 20, 2014 @ 12:19 PMIran inaugurated a new production line for three indigenously manufactured radar systems including “Hafez”, IRNA news agency reported October 19. Iran's Deputy Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami was present during the inauguration in the southern city of Shiraz
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U.S Defense Companies Stand To Gain From Iraq And Syrian War
October 6, 2014 @ 02:51 PMThe American defense manufacturing companies appear to be benefitting from US led air-strikes in Iraq and Syria against Islamic State. Bloomberg in September just before airstrikes in Syria reported defense firms Lockheed Martin, Northrop, Raytheon and General Dynamics Corporation are all set to trade at record prices
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Raytheon, Polish Partner To Develop New Routers For Patriot Missiles
September 29, 2014 @ 02:04 PMRaytheon is partnering with TELDAT to develop and produce advanced militarized routers for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense system. TELDAT engineers and technicians will design, integrate and qualify this key communications networking technology for Patriot
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France Deploys Rafale Fighters To Bomb ISIS Positions
September 20, 2014 @ 12:02 PMFrench Rafale fighter jets carried out air strikes on Islamic State (ISIS) targets Friday, according to media reports. Rafale fighter jets accompanied by support planes struck the depot in northern Iraq on Friday morning, and it were “entirely destroyed,” President Francois Hollande was reported as saying
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Spain Will Deploy Patriot Missile Battery To Turkey After Netherlands Backs Out
September 18, 2014 @ 10:21 AMSpanish Defense Minister Pedro Morenes said on Wednesday that his country will send a Patriot anti-ballistic missile battery to Turkey's southern border with Syria as part of a NATO initiative replacing the Netherlands' contribution to the deployment. The announcement comes soon after the Netherlands said it no longer had the resources to keep its batteries deployed, and will end its contribution to the initiative at the end of January 2015, according to Reuters
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China's Mass-produced J-35A Aircraft Set to Disrupt Global Stealth Fighter Market
China is aiming to disrupt the global stealth fighter market by mass-producing its fifth-generation J-35A at a pace comparable to...
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
Four-legged Robots Vs. Military Dogs
Four legged robots that resemble dogs are increasingly being seen in war zones and exercises for functions such as reconnaissance...
Lockheed Martin Faces Billions in F-35 Cuts Under U.S. Policy Shift
Americas policy of controlling F-35 usage, spares, and maintenance—combined with President Donald Trumps threats of trade wars with Europe, halted...
Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...