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Blacklist stares at Dassault over Aero India bribery scandal

March 23, 2011 @ 12:00 AM

French aircraft maker Dassault, which is in the race for India's $10 billion MMRCA fighter deal and is tipped to receive a $2.1 billion Mirage warplane upgrade contract, may have exposed itself to the charge of bribing an Indian Air Force (IAF) officer at last month's Aero India 2011
Indian Air Force Set to Soar Again

February 16, 2011 @ 12:00 AM

Intense dogfights were witnessed last week at Aero India 2011 in Bangalore between eight countries representing six fighter aircraft for clinching India’s biggest defence contract: The 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft worth $10 billion. The aircraft are Boeings F/A-18 Super Hornet, Lockheed Martins’ F-16 IN Super Viper, MiG Corporation’s MiG-35, Saab’s Gripen NG, Dassault’s [Rafale] and a four-nation European Eurofighter consortium’s Typhoon
Days after initial operational clearance, radar shock for India’s LCA fighter

January 13, 2011 @ 12:00 AM

Barely three days after India’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) “Tejus” received its “release to service certificate”, which means a go-ahead for air force induction, an international report claimed that Israel has barred the export of the Airborne Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) version of the EL/M-2052 radar presumably under U.S
Singapore Tests New Urban Operation Concept

November 18, 2010 @ 12:00 AM

The prospect of facing increasingly urbanised operational environments has prompted the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) to examine new war-fighting concepts in a series of experiments dubbed the SAF Innohub Experiment (InnoX). Held over five days starting from 8 Nov, InnoX brought stakeholders - soldiers, concept developers and technologists - together to conduct trials of a new operational concept
BAE Systems set to win $650 million M777 howitzer deal with India

November 1, 2010 @ 12:00 AM

BAE Land Systems 155mm/39cal M777 ultra-light howitzers is undergoing what is dubbed in the Indian media as “confirmatory trials”, which means that if the howitzer passes the test, the Indian MOD will place the order for 145 howitzers on the U.S
Cubic wins $16 million contract for Air Combat training from U.S.

October 28, 2010 @ 12:00 AM

Cubic Defense Applications, the defense systems business of Cubic Corporation, has received more than $16 million in new orders this year for air combat training systems and spares. With these new bookings, Cubic has received more than $300 million under a 10-year contract for the P5 Combat Training System/Tactical Combat Training System (P5CTS/TCTS)
Finmeccanica wins contract worth approximately EUR 250 million to supply 12...

October 2, 2010 @ 12:00 AM

Alenia Aermacchi – an Alenia Aeronautica subsidiary and part of the Finmeccanica Group – has signed a contract for attributable value worth approximately EUR 250 million to supply 12 M-346 advanced trainer aircraft to the Republic of Singapore Air Force through the consortium comprised of ST Aerospace (prime contractor) and Boeing. The delivery of the first aircraft is expected in 2012
Finmeccanica to supply 12 M-346 trainer aircraft worth EUR 250 million to

September 29, 2010 @ 12:00 AM

Alenia Aermacchi – an Alenia Aeronautica subsidiary and part of the Finmeccanica Group – has signed a contract for attributable value worth approximately EUR 250 million to supply 12 M-346 advanced trainer aircraft to the Republic of Singapore Air Force through the consortium comprised of ST Aerospace (prime contractor) and Boeing. The delivery of the first aircraft is expected in 2012
ST Aerospace awarded contract to procure 12 M346 aircraft and ground...

September 28, 2010 @ 12:00 AM

ST Aerospace today announced it has been awarded a contract to procure 12 M346 aircraft and ground based training system for the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s (RSAF) fighter pilot training in Cazaux, France. The acquisition cost of the aircraft, ground based training system and associated spares are worth S$543m (US$ 410 million—Ed
India's leading Homeland Security Exhibition opens in three weeks time

August 13, 2010 @ 12:00 AM

Informa Exhibitions India, in association with ASSOCHAM, will be hosting INDESEC Expo 2010, India's only major exhibition and conference dedicated to Homeland Security, at PragatiMaidan, New Delhi from 6th - 8th September 2010. Officially supported by the Ministry of Home Affairs, this event will consist of a 3-day exhibition, a 2-day high level conference and VIP cocktail reception

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