OSHKOSH, Wis. --- Oshkosh Corporation, announced today that its Defense division submitted its proposal for the U
QUEBEC --- The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Gateway, together with the Honourable Jose Verner, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, today announced the contract award for the Canadian Forces new medium-sized logistic trucks. Under the contract, the Canadian Forces will be receiving 1,300 Militarized Commercial Off-the-Shelf (MilCOTS) vehicles
TOKYO --- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to launch the Korea Multipurpose Satellite-3 (KOMPSAT-3)
THE FACTS> In his article of 7 Jan 09 in the Australian Financial Review (AFR), Dr Dennis Jensen MP, Member for Tangney:>>> -- Maintains that Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) advocates continue to cite security restrictions to largely avoid answering questions about JSF capabilities.>> -- Remains sceptical about Defences reporting of JSF costs
>An upgraded Scimitar CVR(T). The Light Dragoons will be the first British Army unit to train on the new vehicles
What amount of budgetary resources might be needed in the long term to carry out the Bush Administrations current plans for defense? This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paperprepared at the request of the Chairman and the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committeeaddresses that question.>> />> In CBOs projection of DoDs current plans, defense resources average about $549 billion annually (in 2009 dollars) from 2014 to 2026, or about 6 percent more than the $517 billion in total obligational authority (TOA) requested by the Administration and the $515 billion in TOA provided by the Congress for 2009
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. --- Officials of the Electronic Systems Center delivered the 20,000th Combat Survivor Evader Locator radio to operators in the fall of 2008, and now are on track to deliver an additional 20,000 to warfighters
BORDES, France --- Last December, Turbomeca and the Turkish Ministry of Defense signed a contract for setting up a repair center for the Turbomeca Makila 1A1 turbo shaft engines equipping the 50 Cougar helicopters operated by the Turkish Army.>> This new repair center is based at Eskiehir, in the Tusas Engine Industries, governmental repair center
WASHINGTON, DC: Although the worst year the stock market has seen since the 1930s, aerospace and defense companies continued to outperform the broader markets, with the benchmark SPADE Defense Index (NYSE Alternext US: DXS) outperforming the S&P500 for the ninth consecutive year, a Marketwire press release said. An 8
As part of a strategic partnership between Brazil and France, contracts were signed today covering, on the one hand, the acquisition and construction in Brazil of four Scorpene conventionally-powered submarines and, on the other hand, the development and the construction of a single nuclear-powered submarine. All of the nuclear power plant will be developed exclusively by Brazil