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India Joins MTCR Club
June 27, 2016 @ 02:00 PMIndia has been officially declared as a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and will be entitled to ‘full participation in organizational activities. “As all formal procedures for membership have now been finalised, the Chairman of the joint Netherlands-Luxembourg Chairmanship of the Missile Technology Control Regime, Ambassador Piet de Klerk (NL), in close consultation with the French MTCR Point of Contact, is pleased to announce today that the Republic of India now formally is the 35th member of the Regime,” said an official statement issued by the Chair of the MTCR from The Hague, Netherlands
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Netherlands MoD, StandardAero Sign Partnership For F135 Engine Servicing Upgrades
June 18, 2016 @ 04:30 AMNetherlands Ministry of Defence (MOD) and StandardAero have signed an agreement for establishing F135 military engine maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade (MRO&U) Depot services at Logistic Center Woensdrecht -- a Netherlands Air Force Base, centrally located on the European continent, as part of a partnership for international F-35 aircraft support. On June 11, Air Commodore Verbeek, on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), and Scott Starrett, President of StandardAero Military & Energy, signed the Letter of Intent (LOI) to begin the process of developing this strategic partnership for servicing upgrade activities on F135 engines, with the goal to...
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L-3 Communications Wins $1.9 Billion KC/KDC-10 Airframe Logistics contract
June 2, 2016 @ 05:23 AML-3 Communications has been awarded a $1.9 billion contract for KC/KDC-10 airframe contractor logistics support
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F-35 Is 3 Decibel Noisier Than F-16
May 30, 2016 @ 02:45 PMThe Netherlands last week conducted noise tests of two F-35s around their two future air bases – Volkel and Leeuwarden. The Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) conducted noise level test during these test flights
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Netherland’s F-35 To Participate In European Airshow
May 24, 2016 @ 02:17 PMTwo US-assembled F-35A fighter jets landed in the Netherlands on Monday, ahead of the stealthy plane's European air show debut over the summer. The Lockheed Martin-built Lightning II jets, which are to form the mainstay of the Dutch fighter fleet for the next five decades, landed at Leeuwarden Air Force Base in the northern Netherlands on Monday night, AFP reported
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Two Dutch F-35 Fighters To Reach Netherlands For Operational Tests
May 18, 2016 @ 01:11 AMTwo Dutch F-35A fighter jets will land in Netherlands followed by two KDC-10 aerial refuelers and a NATO C-17 carrying spare parts and gear in about a week. The planes will land at Leeuwarden Air Base, which is one of two bases that will be home to the RNLAF's F-35s when they arrive permanently in 2019
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Damen Wins Dutch, Swedish Tugs Maintenance Contract
May 13, 2016 @ 03:35 PMDamen Shipyard has signed a contract with the Dutch and Swedish Ministries of Defence for a seven-year, in-service maintenance contract covering a total of five vessels. All of these are tugs purchased from Damen
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Raytheon Wins $76 Million To Support Sea Sparrow Missile Production
May 12, 2016 @ 08:45 AMRaytheon has won a $76 million contract for the procurement of long lead material in support of the multi-year Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) Block I production requirements contract. The ESSM program is an international cooperative effort to design, develop, test, and procure ESSM missiles
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Pratt & Whitney Signs F135 Engine Components Contract With Four Italian Firms
April 8, 2016 @ 12:41 PMPratt & Whitney has won long-term agreement contracts valued at $17 million over 10 years to four Italian aerospace suppliers to manufacture F135 engine components for the fifth generation F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. Four key Italian aerospace suppliers – Aerea S
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Raytheon Wins Patriot Missiles Engineering Support Contract For 12 Countries
January 30, 2016 @ 07:50 AMRaytheon has been awarded a $212 million foreign military sales contract to provide engineering services for its Patriot anti-aircraft and anti-ballistic missile systems deployed with the armed forces of 12 US allied nations. Raytheon will perform work for the armed forces of Germany, Greece, Israel, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Netherlands, Qatar, Spain, Taiwan and United Arab Emirates, the US Department of Defense announced Friday
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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