Thailand has selected China to build and supply three Submarines costing US$1.066 billion
Japan plans to establish a new agency for defense equipment, including all processes from development and procurement to final disposal by October this year. The agency will be provisionally called the Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency and is expected to be a powerful entity that will control nearly a third of the country's defense budget, Nekkei reported Tuesday
Raytheon has won a $153 million contract to produce 53 maritime, littoral and overland surveillance radars for US Navys Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft fleet. The AN/APY-10 delivers accurate and actionable information in all weather, day and night, for anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, and for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions
Russia will build new series of six patrol vessels for Black Sea Fleet and two patrol ships for the Arctic by 2020. The first of these patrol vessels will be delivered to Black Sea Fleet in the next three years
Russian Naval Forces have planned to upgrade ten nuclear submarines with the latest armament and ship systems. “The modernization is planned for about ten nuclear submarines of project 971 and 949 at the factory of ‘Zvezdochka in Severodvinsk and the factory ‘Zvezdochka in the Primorskiy Krai region,” the Navy Commander Viktor Chirkov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti on Sunday
Sikorsky Aircraft announced Friday that it has delivered six CH-148 Cyclone helicopters to the Canadian government during an acceptance celebration. The six helicopters represent the first of 28 Cyclone aircraft that Sikorsky will deliver to the Canadian Armed Forces to perform a full range of anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, search and rescue, and utility missions in various environments
Raytheon announced today that it has won a $153 million multi-year contract to produce 53 maritime, littoral and overland surveillance radars for the US Navy's fleet of Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft. The AN/APY-10 delivers accurate and actionable information in all weather, day and night, for anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, and for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions
Russia has started working on a helicopter carrier similar to the stalled French Mistral and is expected to join the forces in 2018, Tass reported last week. Russia recently displayed the layout of the ship similar to the French Mistral amphibious assault ship at the Army 2015 forum
Rolls-Royce announced Monday that it has won a series of contracts worth $224 million to supply and maintain aircraft in service with air forces in America, Kuwait and Norway. Under the arrangements, the Derby-based business will provide design modifications, logistics support, engineering, parts, repairs and field services that mean Rolls staff could be maintaining aircraft in war zones
Russian Navy will get eight Borei class and six multi-purpose Yasen submarines by 2020, Sevmash CEO Mikhail Budnichenko was quoted as saying by TASS on Tuesday. Budnichenko said on the sidelines of the Army-2015 military-technical forum that the frames of a seventh Yasen submarine and an eighth Borei, which are the last ones in the series, will be laid next year