Boeing on March 4 officially delivered the first production P-8A Poseidon aircraft to the U.S
The contract is expected to be valued at A$300 million (c £200 million) over an initial five year period, with an option to extend for a further five years. The final contract is expected to be signed by the end of June 2012 and become operational, after a transitional phase, on 1 January 2013
The Indian Air Force will formally induct the first batch of indigenously designed and developed Surface-to-Air Missile known as Akash during a ceremony in Hyderabad on March 03, 2012. A
The Finnish Defence Forces have been given the green light by their Ministry of Defense to sign the contract to procure Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (AGM- 158 JASSM) from the United States for the F-18 Hornet aircraft. The U
Bluefin Robotics has been awarded a Phase II subcontract from Applied Physical Sciences Corp. (APS) for the Deep Sea Operations (DSOP) Technology and System Development Program sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
The Navy has fired the first industry-built electromagnetic railgun (EM Railgun) prototype launcher at a test facility, commencing an evaluation that is an important intermediate step toward a future tactical weapon for ships, officials announced Feb. 28
Russia and Vietnam have come together to initiate joint production of a modified anti-ship missile in 2012, Ria Novosti reported. “We are planning to build facilities in Vietnam for the production of a version of the Russian Uran [SS-N-25 Switchblade] missile in a project that is similar to joint Russian-Indian production of the BrahMos missile,” head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Mikhail Dmitriyev was quoted as saying on Wednesday
Malaysia-based Contraves Advanced Devices Sdn. Bhd has awarded Raytheon an initial contract to for the production and supply of components for the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM)
Raytheon has delivered a unique surveillance radar to Boeing to be installed on the Indian Navy's P8I maritime surveillance aircraft. The radar offers air-to-sea, air-to-air and weather monitoring capabilities, it was announced during a press conference at the Singapore Air Show 2012
A missile frigate built in Russia has been equipped with eight BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles after completing the final tests of the missile frigate for the Indian Navy. Built in Yantar shipyard in Russia's Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, final tests of the missile frigate were completed, according to the company’s spokesman Sergei Mikhailov said on Tuesday