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MBDA Appoints New Chief Executive Officer

May 16, 2019 @ 01:06 PM

MBDA has appointed Eric Béranger a new chief executive officer (CEO) with effect from 1 June 2019, replacing Antoine Bouvier. Over the past 20 years Éric has worked in a number of senior positions in Airbus Defence and Space, and most lately led Global Communications Company OneWeb, MBDA said in a press release
Turkish Ships To Be Equipped With Home-made Anti-ship Missile In About A...

May 14, 2019 @ 10:52 AM

Turkeys ships of the MILGEM (National Ship) project will be equipped with the countrys first indigenously–developed anti-ship missile, the ATMACA, in about year to an year. “The ATMACA missiles will be seen on Turkish ships in a year or year and a half
Russian MiG-31 fighter was downed by friendly fire: Report

April 25, 2019 @ 11:57 AM

The Russian MiG-31 crash that took place on April 26, 2017 happened when the fighter was shot down accidently by “friendly fire” during a routine training session near the Telemba proving ground in Siberia, an investigative report by Baza has claimed
Russia Signs Contract with Indonesia to Supply BMP-3F Infantry Fighting Vehicles

April 24, 2019 @ 01:08 PM

Russian arms exporter, Rosoboronexport and the Indonesian Ministry of Defence have signed a contract to supply BMP-3F infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) and amphibious armoured personnel carriers (APCs) BT-3F to the Indonesias Marine Corps. The value of the contract and number of IFVs and APCs to be delivered was not specified by Rosoboronexport which announced the contract in a press release
Chinese Wing Loong, United States’ Predator in Battle to Sell Drones to...

April 7, 2019 @ 09:29 PM

In a first direct competition between Chinese and United States military products, the formers Wing Loong II drone will be competing against the United States MQ-9 Predator B in a potential tender for UAVs in Malaysia. The Wing Loong II put up a flying and static display while the MQ-9 was only on static display at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) exhibition that concluded last week in the Malaysian resort Island
Ilyushin Il-112V Military Transport Aircraft Targets An-32 Replacement Market

April 1, 2019 @ 01:31 PM

The Russian Ilyushin Il-112V military transport aircraft which performed its first flight on Saturday is targeting the replacement market for the An-32 class of aircraft, one of the most popular transport planes of the Soviet Era. "An Il-112V light military transport aircraft performed its maiden flight successfully," the press service said as quoted by TASS
US Likely To Replace Half Of Its AH-64 Apache Gunships With Future...

March 28, 2019 @ 08:47 AM

The United States is looking to purchase Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) to replace 350 or half of Boeing AH-64 Apache gunships. The new copters were to replace only the now-retired fleet of 300 Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior copters previously
US Navy To Upgrade Arleigh Burke Destroyers With Scaled Version Of Raytheon’s...

March 21, 2019 @ 07:54 AM

The United States (US) Navy has planned to upgrade its fleet of Arleigh Burke destroyers with Raytheons Spy-6 air and missile defense radar. The radars will be replacing Spy-1D arrays on the Flight IIA destroyers, improving the destroyers radar sensitivity
Anglo-French Future Cruise Missile Programme Passes Its Key Review

March 20, 2019 @ 01:39 PM

Anglo-French future cruise missile programme has passed a key review jointly conducted with Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) and the Direction Générale de lArmement (DGA), the British and French armament procurement agencies. The conclusion part of the review helps the two nations to select the most promising missile concepts, MBDA said in a statement Wednesday
General Dynamics Wins $2 Billion for Additional Material for US Navy’s Virginia-class...

March 19, 2019 @ 05:11 AM

General Dynamics has won $2 billion modification contract for additional material (to include Long Lead Time Material and Economic Ordering Quantity) associated with the Fiscal 2019 – Fiscal 2023 Virginia class submarines (SSNs 802 – 811). The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded the contract, the US department of defense said in a statement Monday

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