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Greek lawmakers will vote this week on a bill opening the way for the purchase of 18 Dassault-made Rafale fighter jets from France for a total of 2.5 billion euros ($3.04 billion). The agreement, expected to be signed by both countries’ ministers in Athens this month, is part of Greece’s plan...

PH Navy eyes TC-12 'Huron' aircraft for air wing The Philippine Navy (PN) on Friday said it is looking at the possibility of acquiring at least eight units of Beechcraft TC-12B "Huron" military turboprop aircraft to beef up its Naval Air Wing (NAW). PN public affairs office chief Lt...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Marine Corps general in charge of the U.S. Navy’s expeditionary warfare directorate said the Navy is looking at options to increase the lethality of its amphibious warfare ships with a containerized weapon system. A demonstration of this capability may occur after a...

Iran's Makran forward base ship joins the country' naval fleet. Iran claims it's the first forward base ship in the Middle East. It's going to serve both the Army and cargo ships. It can carry up to 7 choppers, and be used for missile, drone, and e-warfare operations.

ThinKom Solutions, Inc. has recently completed successful over-the-air tests of a pair of 17-inch active diametre K/Q-band phased-array antennas communicating through an Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite. The tests verified that the antenna, based on ThinKom’s patented Variable...

Elbit Systems has been awarded a contract by the UK Ministry of Defence for the Royal Navy Future Naval Training Programme as part of the Fisher consortium led by Capita plc. The Programme calls for the transformation and modernisation of the shore-based training of the service, including the...

Russian S-70 Stealth Attack UAV "Okhotnik" The Russian Stealth attack drone, S-70 released a bomb from its internal bay hitting a ground target accurately at the Ashuluk range as part of flight tests. The S-70 drone, also called "Okhotnik" (“Hunter”in Russian) dropped unguided aerial bombs of...

Hanwha Defense, a leading defense company in South Korea, has announced that it unveiled the fully integrated Redback infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) in Australia ahead of tests and evaluations by the Australian Army starting February. According to a company news release, Hanwha Defense...

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@Defence Turkey TEI successfully ignited the second TS1400 engine. https://www.defenceturkey.com/tr/icerik/tei-ikinci-tei-ts1400-motorunu-da-basariyla-calistirdi-4324

Nottingham-born second world war pilot operated out of White Waltham in Berkshire Eleanor Wadsworth at her home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Photograph: James Linsell-Clark/SWNS.com A trailblazing pilot who was one of the last surviving women to have taken on the task of transporting...

Dutch combat vehicles will be equipped with MK7 tactical computers over the next 30 months at a cost of almost €20M. Tactical computers are the basis for Battlefield Management Systems (BMS), managing data from sensors and communications equipment, making it available at the various workstations...

Second plane carrying humanitarian aid from Greece arrives in Yerevan The second plane carrying humanitarian aid from Greece has arrived in Armenia, the government informs. The essentials, medical supplies, clothing and food are meant to support war-affected families. The flight was made...