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US Approves Billion Dollar Abrams Tank, Machine-gun Sale to Saudi Arabia

August 10, 2016 @ 09:54 AM

Even as fresh civilian deaths were reported in a Saudi Arabian attack on Yemen, the Pentagon has approved the sale of up to 153 tanks, hundreds of machine guns and other military gear in a deal worth $1.15 billion to the country
South Korea To Develop AESA Radar For KF-X Jets By 2020

August 10, 2016 @ 07:29 AM

South Korea will complete the development of the first prototype of an advanced radar system for country's indigenous fighter jets by 2020, the state arms procurement agency said Wednesday. The state-run Agency for Defense Development has begun the process of developing the active electronically scanned array radars for some 120 KF-X fighter jets that South Korea seeks to develop by the mid-2020s, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration told Yonhap
Russian Army To Receive New Air Bombs Soon

August 10, 2016 @ 06:58 AM

Russias new-generation air bombs equipped with proximity fuzes will soon enter serial production. The tests of the fuze that has been developed by Tecmashs Electronic Instruments R&D Institute in Novosibirsk have passed successfully, CEO of Tecmash engineering group Sergei Rusakov was quoted as saying by company press service, TASS reports Tuesday
Malware Called 'South China Sea RAT' Spied on Philippines, Other Targets

August 9, 2016 @ 02:48 PM

A malware known as NanHaiShu or “South China Sea Remote Access Trojan (RAT)” in Mandarin was discovered to have gathered intelligence related to the South China Sea arbitration case from the Philippines and organizations involved in assisting the South East Asian country which won an international arbitration case against China. Hackers believed to be from China have attacked government and private-sector organizations linked to the row over the key waterway, a Japan Times report said quoting an analysis by Finnish cybersecurity firm F-Secure
Lockheed Martin’s Dual Mode Plus Laser Guided Bomb Completes Flight Tests

August 9, 2016 @ 10:14 AM

Lockheed Martin's new Dual Mode Plus laser guided bomb (LGB) has completed two recent flight tests at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, California. The tests demonstrated operation of the new linear optics, GPS/Inertial Navigation System (INS) guidance subsystem and the control actuation system, meeting all mission objectives
US Army To Discuss New Light Tank Construction Next Week

August 6, 2016 @ 08:52 AM

The US Army will discuss construction of a new light tank with mobile protected firepower capabilities next week. The Army will hold an industry day on Tuesday at Fort Benning, Georgia, to discuss requirements for a light-armored vehicle, and how it could perform in the areas of mobility, protection, sustainability, energy use, cyber capabilities and transportability,
Will US Transfer Critical Technologies If Lockheed Martin Shifts F-16 Assembly Line...

August 5, 2016 @ 01:35 PM

Will Lockheed Martin, which has offered to shift the production line of the F-16 fighter aircraft to India transfer four crucial technologies which have been denied to South Korea, a close US ally. In exchange for a large order of F-16 fighter aircraft from the Indian Air Force(IAF), Lockheed Martin is offering to close its only assembly line in Fort Worth, USA and relocate it to India
India To Buy Three Russian Grigorovich-class Frigates Sans Engines

August 5, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Moscow will export three Admiral Grigorovich-class (Project 11356M) frigates without engines originally intended for Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet to India. According to a Thursday report in
Rheinmetall Weapon And Ammo Orders Intake Reaches 1.7 Billion Euros In First...

August 4, 2016 @ 03:04 PM

Rheinmetalls defence sector posted a high order intake of €1,751 million in the first half of 2016, considerably exceeding the prior-year figure (H1/2015: €1,235 million) with growth of 42 percent. The sectors order backlog reached a new record value of €6,905 million (June 30, 2016)
Parsons Wins $85M Ballistic Missile Defense System Support Contract

August 4, 2016 @ 10:35 AM

Parsons Government Services has been awarded the US Missile Defense Agency contract worth $85 million to support the development of for command, control, communications and battle management engineering (C3BM) system. This contract will support the development of an integrated, fiscally sustainable C3BM system for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) to be adaptable and responsive to intelligence based threats and to defend the homeland, regional interests, allies, and deployed forces against ballistic missile threats

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