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Boeing, EADS to offer bids on $35 billion U.S Tanker contract

The long-running fight over the Pentagon’s $35 billion tanker contract enters a new stage on Friday when Boeing and EADS North America submit bids to build a midair refueling tanker. Air Force and Defense Department officials will pore over thousands of pages of technical and price data over the next four months to choose a victor in a lobbying and public-relations war the two companies and their congressional supporters have waged for much of the last decade

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has conducted trials of a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III strategic transport aircraft which had been taken at lease from US Air Force (USAF). The trials were conducted at the Gaggle Airport in northern India some 500 km from New Delhi on 23 June, ahead of the procurement of 10 giant strategic airlift aircraft for an estimated USD 5

Boeing awarded $216 million contract to upgrade KC-10 tanker fleet by U.S....

Boeing today announced that it has received a $216 million contract from the U.S

Lockheed Martin awarded $2.5 million contract to pioneer technology to manage of...

The Office of Naval Research has awarded Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories a $2.5 million, 18-month contract to pioneer a technology that helps watchstanders manage groups of unmanned vehicles more efficiently

Lockheed Martin’s India-developed aerial refueling device to be displayed at Farnborough Air...

Lockheed Martin will display an aerial refueling device at the forthcoming Farnborough Air Show in July which was developed under contract by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), an Indian company. This makes it the first time an Indian company was involved in a high-technology sub-system development of the F-16 fighter aircraft

Lockheed Martin awarded contract for Kuwait Air Force KC-130J tankers

Lockheed Martin has received a $245 million contract from the U.S

ATK awarded $32 million contract for HELLFIRE II missile by Lockheed Martin

Alliant Techsystems has received follow-on production contracts valued at $32 million to produce rocket motors and warheads for the precision-strike laser-guided HELLFIRE II missile. ATK will manufacture approximately 7,100 rocket motors and 2,200 metal augmented charge (MAC) warheads at its manufacturing facility in Rocket Center, West Virginia

Indian Sukhoi -30MKI fighters to be armed with BrahMos supersonic missiles

India will arm 40 Russia-built Sukhoi fighter jets with BrahMos missiles, according to a top official. Sivathanu Pillai, head of BrahMos Aerospace, said at Defence Services Asia (DSA)-2010 exhibition that the addition of the missiles to India's fleet of Su-30MKI Flanker-H fighters will make them absolutely unique in firepower

EADS may submit proposal for modernization of U.S. Air Force's KC-45 tanker...

EADS North America announced today that it intends to submit a proposal on July 9, 2010 for the U.S

Swedish pension fund delists Elbit for ethical reasons

Helsinki - Första AP-Fonden, the largest of Sweden's pension funds, has delisted the Israeli defense company Elbit Systems from its global investments portfolio, citing ethical reasons centered on Elbit's involvement in the design, installation and operation of a surveillance system for the controversial barrier running between Israel and the West Bank, according to the defensenews.com