The Japanese Ministry of Defence signed a contract for 2 EC135 helicopters with Euroheli (Eurocopter’s distributor in Japan) on 26/02/2009. A second contract for 3 additional helicopters will follow next year with the objective of attaining a fleet of 15 training aircraft in total for the Maritime Self-Defence Forces
The government today announced a slew of measures to strengthen maritime and coastal security against threats from the sea. In the backdrop of multiple agencies involved in coastal security and the resultant problems of coordination, the government has designated the Indian Navy as the authority responsible for overall maritime security, both coastal and offshore
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla
MINNEAPOLIS --- Alliant Techsystems has received a $25.5 million order from the U
Defence procurement, still essentially a national competence, is boosted by a new directive, seeking to create a genuine single market for defence and security equipment and services adopted by the European Parliament in Strasbourg.>> MEPs voted in favour of the text agreed before with the Council
WASHINGTON --- A solution for closing down the U.S
TEWKSBURY, Mass. --- Raytheon Company received a $23 million U
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M
SEATTLE --- The Boeing Company in 2008 recorded 662 net commercial airplane orders, bringing its backlog of unfilled commercial orders to more than 3,700 airplanes.>> The Next-Generation 737 remained the company's best seller, with 484 chosen last year by customers from nearly every region of the world
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. --- Headquarters for the Army Chemical Materials Agency here marked the destruction of all VX nerve agent munitions at its destruction sites on Dec