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Pentagon Contract Announcement(Source: US Department of Defense; issued Dec 19, 2016)Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is being awarded a $1,463,276,000 fixed-price-incentive modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024...

Australia and France Sign Future Submarine Inter-Governmental Agreement(Source: Australian Prime Minister’s Office; issued Dec 20, 2016)In Adelaide today, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (R) and French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian...

(Source: The Globe and Mail; published Dec. 18, 2016)OTTAWA --- The federal government is defending its decision to export combat vehicles to Saudi Arabia by arguing in court that the Canadian Foreign Minister has such broad authority to green-light...

Italy's Top Court Orders Retrial of Ex-Finmeccanica Executives In India Bribery Case (excerpt)Italy's highest court on Friday ordered a re-trial of former top executives at defense group Leonardo Finmeccanica over allegations of bribery in a 2010 con...

IranAir has trimmed its planned order from Europe's Airbus to 100 planes, partly by dropping superjumbo A380s, the flag carrier's head said on Sunday, confirming an adjustment first reported by Reuters. "Although the nominal value of the contract for...

Dispute Settlement: US Files Appeal Against WTO Panel Ruling On Tax Breaks for Civil Aircraft ProductionThe United States filed a notice of appeal on 16 December 2016 in the case brought by the European Union in “United States — Conditional Tax I...

BRASILIA --- On December 13, Brazil's Senate approved a constitutional amendment that will cap government spending in Brazil. The new law will go into effect on December 15. The spending cap will apply to the federal spending in Brazil starting with...

Artillery “Deal of the Century” Concluded As Poland Awards $1.1 Billion Contract (excerpt)The Polish Army’s new Kruk (crab) self-propelled howitzer is based on a South Korean design, and closely resembles the US-manufactured M-109. After an ini...

Overhaul of Littoral Combat Ship Program Likely to Increase Risks and Costs (excerpt)The Navy’s $29 billion Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program provides a step-by-step case study in acquisition failures and the costs and risks of unacceptable levels...

US to Fly F-22 Raptors In and Out of Australia Amid South China Sea Tensions (excerpt)The United States will follow up the deployment of a permanent Marine force in Australia’s Northern Territory with regular deployments of F-22 Raptor stealth figh...

Press Release(Source: Pakistan Inter-Services Public Relations; issued Dec 14, 2016)Pakistan has successfully tested the Hatf VII Babur cruise missile launched from a new canister. The missile has a range of about 700 km and a submarine-launched vers...

President Mauricio Macri has approved the purchase of airplanes for the Air Force, patrol vessels for the Navy and armored vehicles and combat rifles for the Army, it was announced Monday, to give the Armed Forces back some of their lost firepower, D...

U.S. Military Grounds All Osprey Airplanes After Crash (excerpt)(Source: Mainichi Japan; published Dec 14, 2016)TOKYO --- The United States told Japan on Wednesday it will ground its Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in line with Tokyo's request that it do...

BERLIN --- A sixth new Airbus A400M military transporter plane is due to land in Germany on Wednesday, with another likely to follow before the year's end, but Airbus faces penalties for the late deliveries, the German defence ministry said on Tuesda...

Safran Helicopter Engines has signed a 10-year contract with NAHEMA (NATO Helicopter Management Agency), to support RTM322-powered NH90 operated by the French Army Light Aviation (ALAT) and French Navy. This contract also covers the NH90 operated by...

China is preparing to conduct a flight test of a new missile capable of destroying satellites in space, one of Beijing’s most potent asymmetric warfare weapons. Test preparations for the Dong Neng-3 anti-satellite missile were detected at a militar...

The sixth Airbus A400M for the German air force on the tarmac at Seville before its delivery. It is the first one delivered to Germany that is capable of flying tactical missions, but the other five will be upgraded to the same standard. (Airbus phot...

Brazilian federal prosecutors on Friday formally accused former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of having interfered in a government tender to buy new fighter jets in favor of Swedish plane maker Saab AB. Lula, who was no longer in the presidency...

The arrival of the two F-35 stealth multirole fighter aircraft to Israel was delayed on Monday morning because of the weather conditions in Italy, where the planes landed for a stopover. "Due to weather conditions that don't allow for the departure o...

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