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Airbus has signed contracts with the Ministries of Defence of Czech Republic and the Netherlands to provide satellite communications for a 15 year period. The Armed Forces of Czech Republic and the Netherlands will utilise 2 and 3 channels respectively of the Airbus UHF (Ultra High Frequency)...

Carl-Gustaf M4, image by Saab Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab has announced that it has received an order for Carl-Gustaf ammunition and AT4CS RS systems for U.S. Armed Forces. The details were given in a 7 September media release, to announce the order value is USD 81.8 million...

The targets for counterstrikes are likely to include enemy launch and related sites, such as anti-aircraft radar and airfields, if Japan is attacked. Entrance to the Ministry of Defense in Ichigaya, Tokyo. (© Sankei) The Defense Ministry is considering acquiring over 1,500 long range...

U.S. soldiers have taken part in a joint military exercise with PKK/YPG terrorists in the countryside in Syria’s northeast. Photos from the exercise conducted by the U.S.-led Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve coalition and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the ISIL...

LITENING advanced targeting pod on F/A-18 Super Hornet. Photo: Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman has completed the first flight tests of its LITENING advanced targeting pod on the F/A-18 Super Hornet. The trials follow the US Navy’s replacement of its Hornet legacy targeting pods with the...

T-45 Goshawk. Photo: Rolls-Royce The US Department of Defense has awarded Rolls-Royce two aircraft engine contracts for the US Navy and Marine Corps. One contract is for intermediate, depot-level maintenance and logistics support for more than 200 US Navy Boeing T-45 Goshawk trainer aircraft...

9th September 2022 - 14:19 GMT | by The Shephard News Team RSS SCRAM system printing a composite engine duct. (Photo: Northrop Grumman) Scalable Composite Robotic Additive Manufacturing system promises to cut manufacturing time, says Northrop Grumman. Northrop Grumman is accelerating...

BAE Systems says it has received a USD 13 million contract for advanced GPS technology to protect U.S. F-15E aircraft from GPS signal jamming and spoofing. The company’s Digital GPS Anti-jam Receiver (DIGAR) uses advanced antenna electronics, high-performance signal-processing...

Artist impression: Three FDI HN patrolling the Agean Sea. Naval Group image. During a recent visit to the Naval Group shipyard in Lorient, Naval News had the chance to interview a Hellenic Navy Commodore on the FDI HN program. The program for three frigates (plus one as option) for the...

A U.S. Army soldier checks out an antenna on a Stryker vehicle outfitted with the GEN I Mounted Assured PNT System. (John Higgins/PEO IEW&S Public Affairs) WASHINGTON — Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of Raytheon, won a contract worth as much as $583 million to produce the latest version of a...

A photo of the Israeli strike on Iranian arms depots in Masyaf on Thursday. (Pro-regime media) Idlib – Firas Karam Russia has demanded Iranian militias withdraw from military positions west of Syria’s Hama province as well as from positions in central and western Syria...

Presidential Office thanks US for its support of Taiwan's defense needs TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The United States has approved a $1.17 billion (NT$33.69 billion) package including anti-ship and air-to-air missiles for Taiwan, the Pentagon said Friday (Sept. 2)...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (C), Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi (R) and Greek Cypriot Leader Nicos Anastasiades (L) attend the Trilateral Summit in Athens, Greece on October 19, 2021. [Greek Prime Ministry Press Office - Anadolu Agency] Egypt and Greece, yesterday, signed...

Baku, September 3, AZERTAC The Armenian armed formations subjected to fire the Azerbaijan Army positions a total of 19 times during the last day, Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense told AZERTAC. “16 of these incidents occurred as a result of the periodic fire opened by the use of various caliber...

American official says Iranian sailors tried to cover the drones with tarps, deny they had them, during seizure in Red Sea In this frame grab from Iranian state television, Iranian navy sailors throw an American sea drone overboard in the Red Sea on September 1, 2022. (Iranian state television...

A Boeing KC-46A Pegasus sits on the tarmac at Boeing facilities at Boeing Field in this aerial photo in Seattle, Washington, U.S. March 21, 2019. Picture taken March 21, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey WassonReuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has signed a $927 million purchase order for four Boeing...

An artist's impression of the Hunter-class frigate. Photo: Australian Government Department of Defence BAE Systems Australia has completed the first steel block prototype of a Hunter-class frigate for the Royal Australian Navy. The block, which equals the size of two...

GENEVA (31 August 2022) – The UN Human Rights Office today issued an assessment of human rights concerns in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The assessment was initiated following serious allegations of human rights violations against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida walks past a Ground Self-Defense Force Type-19 155 mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer and a Type-12 surface-to-ship missile during a review at Camp Asaka in Tokyo in November. | POOL / VIA REUTERS With an eye toward narrowing a cavernous “missile gap” with China...

MOSCOW ($1=59.50 Russian Rubles) — The Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile enters serial production. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu, on August 20. Shoigu emphasized that, in fact, Tsirkon has already been accepted into service with the...