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Oshkosh Defense Wins New JLTV Order from US Army
2017-08-04 Read More...
Oshkosh Defense, LLC, an Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK) company, announced that the U.S. Army has placed another order for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program including 748 vehicles and 2,359 installed and packaged kits. The order

Russia Developing Lider-Class Nuclear Missile Destroyer
2017-08-04 Read More...
Russia’s Defense Ministry has approved the preliminary design of the Lider-class new-generation nuclear-powered missile destroyer, which is to become a key element of Russian naval might in the coming

Lockheed Martin Invests $350 Million in Satellite Production Facility
2017-08-04 Read More...
Preliminary construction is underway on a new, $350 million Lockheed Martin facility that will produce next-generation satellites. Located on the company’s Waterton Canyon campus near Denver, the new facility is the latest step in an ongoing

Insitu Celebrates One Million Flight Hours
2017-08-03 Read More...
Insitu reached a milestone worth celebrating when the company’s unmanned platforms - ScanEagle, Integrator and RQ-21A Blackjack - hit a collective one million operational flight hours last week. This event represents the latest achievement in the

Russian Air Force to Receive Over 100 New Aircraft in 2018
2017-08-02 Read More...
Russian Aerospace Forces plan to receive more than a hundred new aircraft and helicopters in 2018, Russia’s Aerospace Forces Commander Colonel General Viktor Bondarev

Boeing Team Completes KC-46 Tanker Electromagnetic Testing
2017-08-01 Read More...
A Boeing-led team, including U.S. Air Force and Naval Air Systems Command representatives, recently completed KC-46 tanker electromagnetic

Boeing to Modernize Next-Generation Chinook Helicopter
2017-07-31 Read More...
Boeing will build and test three U.S. Army CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopters as part of a modernization effort that will likely bring another two decades of work to the company's Philadelphia

Turkey Signs S-400 Deal with Russia
2017-07-28 Read More...
Turkey has made progress in plans to procure an S-400 missile defense system from Russia and signatures have been signed, President Tayyip

Russian Army Receives Iskander-M, Kalibr Cruise Missiles
2017-07-28 Read More...
The Russian defense industry has supplied the Russian Armed Forces with an Iskander-M missile system brigade set and 60 Kalibr cruise missiles alongside 17 planes and helicopters in May-June this year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu

Lockheed Martin to Produce First Lot of Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles
2017-07-28 Read More...
Lockheed Martin received an $86.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy and Air Force for Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM)

Boeing, Dassault Systèmes Extend Partnership
2017-07-27 Read More...
Dassault Systèmes and Boeing have extended their partnership. Boeing will expand its deployment of Dassault Systèmes’ products across its commercial aviation, space and defense programs to include the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE

Russian Defense Ministry Orders Two Mi-38 Helicopters
2017-07-26 Read More...
The Russian Defense Ministry signed the first contract with the Russian Helicopters company for the supply of a pilot batch of Mi-38 helicopters to be delivered by the end of 2019, the Ministry said in a

Lockheed Martin’s F-35s Surpass 100,000 Flight Hours
2017-07-26 Read More...
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft fleet recently exceeded 100,000 flight hours while the F-35 Integrated Test Force teams are completing the remaining requirements in the program's System Development and Demonstration (SDD)

MAKS-2017 Concludes With $6.7 Billion Contracts
2017-07-25 Read More...
The sum of the contracts concluded within the 13th International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017 at the Russian city of Zhukovsky is estimated at 400 billion rubles ($6.7 billion), the press service of the Russian Ministry of Industry and

Nexter to Supply Optopyrotechnic Detonators for Ariane 6
2017-07-24 Read More...
Nexter Munitions, subsidiary of the Nexter Group, and ArianeGroup, formerly Airbus Safran Launchers, signed a contract for the development of new generation optopyrotechnic detonator for the Ariane 6 program. These initiator devices enable

Russian Defense Ministry to Acquire MiG-35 Fighter Jets
2017-07-24 Read More...
The Russian Defense Ministry will begin purchasing MiG-35 fighters from 2018 as part of the new state armament program, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov

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