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China’s New Aircraft Carrier To Be Equipped With J-15 Jets
March 7, 2016 @ 07:29 AMChinas newest aircraft carrier will be larger than the first aircraft carrier Liaoning but will carry similar aircraft including J-15 fighter jets, according to media reports. The second aircraft carrier will be larger than Liaoning, though it will still carry the J-15, China's first-generation multipurpose carrier-borne fighter jet, Yin Zhuo - a senior researcher with the People's Liberation Army Navy Equipment Research Center - was quoted by news site cnr
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Boeing’s Second KC-46A Tanker Aircraft Completes First Flight
March 5, 2016 @ 10:07 AMBoeings second KC-46A tanker aircraft completed its first flight Friday. The aircraft took off from Paine Field and landed later at Boeing Field in Seattle
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Indian MOD Sets Up $2.3 Billion Corpus For US FMS Payments
March 4, 2016 @ 06:37 PMThe Indian Ministry of Defence has fine-tuned the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) procedure with the US Government. Rather than raising bills case-wise every quarter, all the funds against various cases have been pooled together in a corpus
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Kuwait Approves $500 Million Advance Payment For 28 Eurofighters
March 2, 2016 @ 09:25 AMKuwaiti parliament has approved $500 million (150 million dinars) as advance payment for the purchase of 28 Eurofighter Typhoons. Kuwait signed a MoU in September last year with the consortium in a deal worth up to 8 billion euros ($8
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Honeywell No Longer Pursuing UTC
March 2, 2016 @ 08:55 AMHoneywell announced that it is no longer pursuing a strategic combination with United Technologies (UTC) due to their unwillingness to engage in negotiations. Honeywell was interested in a combination because of compelling value creation for both sets of shareholders and a readily executable transaction due to two largely complementary business portfolios
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General Dynamics Wins $156 Million Maintenance Contract For US Navy Wasp-class Ship
March 2, 2016 @ 07:30 AMGeneral Dynamics shipbuilding division in San Diego, California has won a $156 million contract to provide maintenance services to US Navys Wasp-class amphibious assault ship. “General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co
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China's Boeing C-17 Competitor, Y-20 Cargo Plane To Enter Service
March 1, 2016 @ 08:30 AMChina will put its home-grown military cargo jet, Y-20 into service later this year. “The test flight period for the aircraft is generally between three and five years
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Procurement Delays May Have Led to Low Defense Budget in India
February 29, 2016 @ 12:49 PMNon-finalization of big ticket defense projects in the current fiscal and under-utilization of defense acquisition funds during the previous fiscal may have led to a hike of just 4.8 per cent in the defense allocation in the Indian budget for 2016-17
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Is Indo-Japanese US-2 Amphibious Aircraft Deal In Limbo?
February 29, 2016 @ 09:52 AMJapan has no immediate plans for ‘selling or delivering the US-2 amphibious aircraft to India, a senior diplomat was quoted as saying by the Hindu news daily Friday. “There is no decision about its delivery nor did the Foreign Secretaries discuss the timing of the delivery”, Yasuhisa Kawamura, Director General of Press and Public Diplomacy of Japan was quoted by the
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Lockheed Martin Delivers 200th Electro-Optical Targeting System For F-35 Fighter Jet
February 26, 2016 @ 12:26 PMLockheed Martin has delivered the 200th Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) for the F-35 Lightning II. Lockheed Martin is delivering F-35 EOTS under Low-Rate Initial Production contracts with a total of 367 systems ordered to date
Ukraine Faces $5B Shortfall in Military Budget Amid Growing War Costs
MBDA Invests in Hybrid Drones, Maker of Jet-Electric Hydra 400 UAV
Indian Army Kills Three Terrorists in Kashmir's Shopian as Operation Keller Intensifies
South Korea to Assess K9, Cheonmu, Cheonma Weapon Systems for Upgrades
The Future of Combat: Miniaturized Laser Weapons Set to Replace Bullets and Missiles
Lasers may soon replace bullets, and drones could disable enemy UAVs with beams of light instead of missiles
Four-legged Robots Vs. Military Dogs
Four legged robots that resemble dogs are increasingly being seen in war zones and exercises for functions such as reconnaissance...
Lockheed Martin Faces Billions in F-35 Cuts Under U.S. Policy Shift
Americas policy of controlling F-35 usage, spares, and maintenance—combined with President Donald Trumps threats of trade wars with Europe, halted...
Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
