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Norway Plans To Buy 12 F-35 Jets In 2019-2020
October 11, 2016 @ 01:55 PMNorway is planning to purchase 12 Lockheed Martin-built F-35 joint strike fighters in 2019-2020. Norways defense department submitted a 2017 budget proposal in parliament recently which outlined the countrys plans to purchase 12 planes in the 2019 and 2020 “block buy,”
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S-400 Missile System Hits High-speed Simulated Targets During Russian Military Exercise
September 27, 2016 @ 01:20 PMA S-400 missile defense system hit a target at 45 kilometers height flying at a speed of 1,500 meters per second (4,000 feet per second) in trials held by the Russian Central Military District last week. A total of six missiles were launched, hitting several high speed targets which included the Kaban target missile, moving along a flat ballistic trajectory
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Boeing Demands Denmark Part with Fighter Evaluation Information
September 16, 2016 @ 09:10 AMBoeing has submitted to the Danish Ministry of Defence a Request for Insight, which requires the former to provide all materials related to the fighter procurement evaluation and decision announced in June this year. This is the first step toward bringing a formal legal challenge of the Danish MoDs evaluation regarding the countrys next fighter jet in which it selected Lockheed Martins F-35 over the Boeing F/A-18
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North Korea Executes Vice Premier For Dozing During Kim's Speech
August 31, 2016 @ 06:50 PMNorth Korea has executed a vice premier Kim Yong-Jin for dozing off during a meeting presided over by the countrys Supreme leader Kim Jong-Un. The governement has also banished two other officials for re-education, various local media in South Korea reported Wednesday
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US To Deploy 16 F-35B Fighters At Japanese Airbase Next Year
August 23, 2016 @ 04:17 PMThe United States plans to deploy 16 F-35 fighters to the US military base in Japans Iwakuni in Yamaguchi. The plan is to deploy 10 aircraft in January and additional six in August next year
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Denmark To Take Part In Removing Chemical Weapons From Libya
August 19, 2016 @ 04:50 PMThe Danish parliament has given green signal to the governmental proposal for the country to participate in a UN-backed international maritime operation to remove chemical weapons from Libya. Currently, the two Danish vessels have got the permission to remove the remaining chemical weapons in Libya, Ritzau news agency reported
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Russia To Turn Syrian Base To Fully Operational Facility
August 11, 2016 @ 12:39 PMRussia plans to turn the Hmeymim base in Syria into a fully operational facility for its armed forces. "After an agreement on its legal status, Hmeymim will become a base of Russian armed forces, all the appropriate infrastructure will be built there and our servicemen will live in decent conditions," Franz Klintsevich, the first deputy chairman of the Defense and Security Committee of the Federation Council (the upper house of Russia's parliament) was quoted as saying in an interview with the Russian Izvestia newspaper
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Indian Air Force C-17 Globemaster Aircraft Underutilized: CAG Report
July 27, 2016 @ 10:19 AMIndias Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in its report tabled in the Parliament Tuesday, has slammed both the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Boeing for various shortcomings in $2.7 billion contract for the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft
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Indian Carrier-Borne MiG-29K Serviceability Unsatisfactory: Government Auditor
July 27, 2016 @ 08:30 AMIndias only aircraft carrier capable aircraft, the MiG-29K suffers from an unsatisfactory serviceability rate ranging from 15.93 per cent to 37
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British Parliament Votes To Renew Its Nuclear-Armed Submarine Fleet
July 19, 2016 @ 12:10 PMBritish parliament on Monday voted to replace its aging fleet of nuclear-armed submarines with new vessels. Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative government is committed to keeping the country's nuclear arsenal, a powerful but costly symbol of the country's military status that consists of four Royal Navy submarines armed with Trident missiles
Anduril Tests New High-Speed Autonomous Missile ‘Barracuda-100M’ for U.S. Army
Italian Air Force Awards CAE Contract for MQ-9A Predator Mission Trainer Plus...
Thales to Acquire Full Control of Joint Venture with RTX on NATO...
Russia Planning All-New Helicopter, Mi-80 to Replace Legendary Mi-8
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...