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India Readies Policy To Select Private Firms For Defense Production Orders
May 11, 2017 @ 11:11 AMIndias defence ministry has prepared its roadmap for the selection of private sector companies for military production orders, with a procedure spelt out in a new policy. The ministry will unveil the elaborate procedure in a new policy soon, the
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Indonesia Declines Russian Offer To Set Up Nuclear Power Plants
May 10, 2017 @ 10:33 AMIndonesia has said it is 'not ready yet' to take up Russian offer to set up nuclear power plants on turnkey basis. "We have told them that we are not ready yet
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IAI Signs $2 Billion Contract To Supply MRSAM Missiles To India
April 7, 2017 @ 11:18 AMIsrael Aerospace Industries (IAI) has signed contracts worth almost $2 billion for supply of medium range surface to air missiles (MRSAM) and missile defence systems to the Indian Army. “In a mega-contract worth over $1
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N Korea Restarts Weapons-Grade Plutonium-Producing Reactor
January 28, 2017 @ 11:00 AMFresh satellite imagery shows that North Korea has apparently restarted its plutonium-producing nuclear reactor. "Imagery from January 22 shows a water plume (most probably warm) originating from the cooling water outlet of the reactor, an indication that the reactor is very likely operating," the website 38 North said in a report
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Greece Receives First Three Boeing CH-47 Chinook Helicopters From US
November 14, 2016 @ 02:12 PMGreece has received the first three Boeing CH-47 Chinook transport helicopters following an agreement with the United States signed earlier this year. The parts of the choppers arrived Friday from the US to Piraeus port on the Endurance ship, owned by American company ARC
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Marines Working on Mega-Drone That Carries Same Weapons As F-35
October 29, 2016 @ 10:57 AMUS Marines is expecting to achieve initial operation capability by 2024 of its 'mega drone' that can carry same amount of weapons as an F-35. US Marines are looking to obtain a ‘mega-drone that will be able to launch from land or sea, and carry the same amount of weapons as an F-35
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DARPA Aims To Revolutionize Situational Awareness with Thinking Imaging Sensors
September 19, 2016 @ 01:00 PMUS Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is aiming to develop a software‐configurable array that enables simultaneous and distinct imaging modes in different readout integrated circuits. “What we are aiming for,” said Jay Lewis, program manager for Reconfigurable Imaging (ReImagine), “is a single, multi-talented camera sensor that can detect visual scenes as familiar still and video imagers do, but that also can adapt and change their personality and effectively morph into the type of imager that provides the most useful information for a given situation
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North Korea May Have 21 Nuclear Weapons: US Think-Tank
June 16, 2016 @ 11:27 AMNorth Korea may have produced additional six or more nuclear weapons over the last one and half years making its total arsenal to more than 21 bombs, according to US based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS). The estimate is based on the amounts of weapons-grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium Pyongyang is believed to have produced at its Yongbyon nuclear complex
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Iran Showcases Three Home-grown Defense Tech
June 2, 2016 @ 05:56 AMIran has unveiled three homemade defense technologies, including a GPS system. They comprised a one-megawatt Local Positioning System (LPS) transmitter, which Iranian defense minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said, would render the defense forces independent of the Global Positioning System (GPS), Press TV reported Wednesday
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Finmeccanica Blacklist Is Retaliation For Marines' Return: Italian Media
June 1, 2016 @ 02:27 PMIndias decision to cancel all on-going tenders for defence equipment won by Italys Finmeccanica is in retaliation to return of the marines involved in killing two Kerala fishermen in 2012 to Italy. Accoridng to Italian publication,
Denmark to Reorient Patrol Ships Design for Arctic Operations
UAE's Edge Signs Contract with Hungary to Supply CARACAL Sniper Rifles
Russian Su-57 Jet to Set the Skies on Fire at Aero India
U.S. Navy Deploys New AI-powered System to Detect Houthi Threats in Red...
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...
NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
Recent NATO exercises such as the BALTOPS-24, Steadfast Defender 2024 and its first-ever Basic Fighter Maneuvers exercise have been its...
Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...
Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U