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Thales Unveils New-Gen Ground Fire Radar: Paris Air Show 2017

June 19, 2017 @ 10:59 AM

Thales will unveil its Ground Fire family, a range of latest-generation multifunction ground radar at Paris Air show 2017 starting this week. The radar system, which is fully digital, will carry out air defence and surveillance missions simultaneously
Leonardo Unveils Fighter Attack Version of M-346 Trainer jet At Paris Air...

June 19, 2017 @ 09:54 AM

Leonardo has displayed for the first time the M-346FA Fighter Attack version of its M-346 trainer that will be equipped with a variant of the Grifo multi-mode fire control radar. The aircraft can be equipped with a variety of missiles, cannons and guided bombs making it an ideal light attack aircraft
South Korean Missile Interceptor Passes Test, To Be Mass-produced

June 17, 2017 @ 08:51 AM

South Korea is set to mass mass-produce its new mid-range hit-to-kill missile interceptor known as M-SAM following the completion of an operational capability test. The M-SAM surface-to-air missile will serve as a core element of the country's Korea Air and Missile Defense System (KAMD), currently in the making, against North Korea's threats
Raytheon Receives US$652 Million Contract For Standard Missile-2 Used In AEGIS

June 17, 2017 @ 04:18 AM

Raytheon has received a $652-million contract to equip the US Navy and allied navies with the Standard Missile-2 used in the AEGIS missile defense system, the US Department of Defense announced yesterday. "Raytheon Missile Systems is being awarded a $617,633,351 fixed-price-incentive firm, firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for procurement of fiscal 2017 Standard Missile-2 full-rate production requirements and spares for US and Allied Foreign Navies," the release said on Friday
Huntington Ingalls Awarded $3 Billion For US Marines’ Amphibious Assault Ship, LHA

June 17, 2017 @ 03:53 AM

Huntington Ingalls Awarded $3 Billion Contract For US Marines Amphibious Assault Ship Huntington Ingalls Industries was yesterday awarded a US$3 billion contract for the detail design and construction of the amphibious assault ship Bougainville (LHA 8). Ingalls was awarded the original long-lead material contract for the third ship in the America (LHA 6) class on June 30, 2016
Bangladesh Signs Contract To Buy Five Mi-171Sh Military Transport Helicopters From Russia...

June 14, 2017 @ 09:29 AM

The Bangladesh Air Force has inked a contract with Russias Rosoboronexport to buy five Mi-171Sh Military Transport Helicopters at an undisclosed value. The contract signing ceremony was held at Air Headquarters in Dhaka on 12 June 2017
Raytheon's Long-Range Precision Fires Program Enters Testing Phase

June 13, 2017 @ 03:36 PM

Raytheon has won a $116.4 million contract to enter the technological maturation and risk reduction phase of the Long-Range Precision Fires program
Australian Air Force Conducts Virtual Exercise Connecting F/A-18, AEW&C & C-130 Transport...

June 13, 2017 @ 01:54 PM

Diamond Thunder distributed mission training exercise that saw the Australian Air Force (RAAF) network various simulation assets across the country was supported by CAE as part of its inaugural Air Warfare Instructor Course. The Diamond Thunder Exercise involved the networking of F/A-18 simulators at both RAAF Base Williamtown and Tindal with the E-7A Wedgetail simulator at Williamtown and C-130J simulator at RAAF Base Richmond
Damen Wins Pakistan Navy Contract To Build Offshore Patrol Vessel

June 13, 2017 @ 10:30 AM

Karachi Shipyard will build an indigenous Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) for the Pakistan Navy with help from Damen Shipyard of The Netherlands. A contract to this effect was signed at Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works Ltd yesterday by MD KS&EW Rear Admiral Hasan Nasir Shah, DMP Navy Cdre Shafqat Azad SI(M), and representatives of Damen (The Netherlands) in MoDP, Rawalpindi
Northrop Grumman To Modernize US F-16 Fighter Jets With APG-83 AESA Radar

June 8, 2017 @ 05:58 PM

The United States Air Force has choosen Northrop Grummans APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) active electronically scanned array (AESA) to modernize 72 Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcons. The company will modernize 72 US Air National Guard F-16s to meet a US Northern Command Joint Emergent Operational Need for homeland defense

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