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South Korea Eyes Private Funding For Major Defense Projects

July 19, 2017 @ 08:07 AM

South Korea plans to partly finance major defense projects with private funds. South Korea is pushing for the establishment of a "three-axis" platform to help defend itself against North Korea's growing nuclear and missile threats
Johns Hopkins University Wins $92M USAF Nuclear Weapons Center Partnership Contract

July 18, 2017 @ 04:29 AM

Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) has been awarded a $92 million contract for continuing strategic partnership with the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC), by procuring engineering for complex systems, as well as research and development of specialized functions. Contractor will provide support in the AFNWCs mission in development planning (concept development and capability planning and analysis), strategic system capability assessments (Air Force nuclear vulnerability assessments), strategic and tactical air delivered and ground-based nuclear weapon system capability, and nuclear command, control and communications, US Department of Defense said in a statement Monday
Bechtel Wins $30M Naval Nuclear Propulsion Components Modification Contract

July 15, 2017 @ 05:22 AM

Bechtel Plant Machinery has won a $30 million modification contract for naval nuclear propulsion components. No completion date or additional information is provided on Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contracts
UK Defense Secretary Announces P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft Squadrons

July 13, 2017 @ 05:20 PM

UK Defence Secretary has announced that number 120 Squadron and number 201 Squadron from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray would be operating nine new P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft. 120 Squadron was the RAFs highest scoring anti-submarine unit in the Second World War with 14 kills
Australia Finds THAAD Unsuitable, To Develop New Missile Defense Program

July 10, 2017 @ 02:28 PM

Australia will soon come up with a missile defense program to protect its forces, a US shield system is unsuitable, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system mentioned in recent briefings is “not really suitable for our situation,” Turnbull was quoted as saying by Bloomberg on Friday
Australia Kickstarts Submarine Program With Opening Of New Office In France

July 10, 2017 @ 02:19 PM

Australian Department of Defense has set up a secure facility in Cherbourg, France together with Naval Group (formerly DCNS) and Lockheed Martin Australia which will house Submarine designers, naval architects and engineers who will work alongside each other on Australia's Future Submarine Program. More than 50 Australians will join Naval Group and Lockheed Martin Australia employees to progress the important work of developing a mature design of the Future Submarine
Russian Tu-95 Bombers Strikes ISIS Targets In Syria Using Latest Kh-101 Cruise...

July 7, 2017 @ 09:42 AM

Russia strikes Daesh terrorist organization targets in Syria with the latest Kh-101 cruise missiles from a group of Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers Thursday. Tu-95MS long-range strategic bombers departed Wednesday from an airfield in the southern Russian city of Engels carrying the latest Kh-101 long-range cruise missiles and successfully targeted an ISIS command center and three weapons storage depots in Aqirbat, a town in the western governorate of Hama, according to the Russian Defense Ministry statement
India Adds 10 More Nuclear Weapons To Arsenal This Year: SIPR Report

July 6, 2017 @ 12:29 PM

India is making progress with efforts to raise its arsenal of nuclear weapons while upgrading technology for an assured strike-back, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) stated in its annual report. India has added about 10 more nuclear warheads to its arsenal, which was estimated at 110-120 in 2016,
South Korea, US Fire Missiles In Response To Pyongyang's ICBM Launch

July 5, 2017 @ 11:16 AM

South Korea and the US fired a barrage of missiles, including Souths Hyunmoo-2A and US ATACMS sending a warning message to North Korea. North Korea had claimed a successful long-range missile test Monday
Cruise Missile Test Launched From Russian Nuclear Submarine

July 5, 2017 @ 07:01 AM

Russias Smolensk nuclear-powered submarine has test-launched a cruise missile that hit the designated target in the Barents Sea from underwater position. "From the underwater position, a Granit missile was fired against a combined sea-based target at a distance of about 400 kilometers," the Northern Fleets press service said on Wednesday

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