Australia Requests 24 MH-60R Seahawk Hel

WASHINGTON — The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress July 7 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Australia of 24 MH-60R SEAHAWK Multi-Mission Helicopters and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an esti…

Boeing, US Aerospace File Bids for KC-X Tanker

ST. LOUIS — The Boeing Company today submitted a proposal to the U.S. Air Force to provide the service with a next-generation aerial refueling tanker aircraft. Based on Boeing’s 767 commercial airplane, the NewGen Tanker would replace 179 of the 400 …

Canada Launches LAV III Upgrade Program

LONDON, Ontario --- The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, and the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Public Works and Government Services, announced today that the Government of Canada ...

South Africa, Airbus Continue A400M Dispute

Seven months after South Africa cancelled an order for eight A400M heavy-lift freight planes, Airbus Military is yet to pay back the R2.9 billion deposit and the arms company is ...

Launch Qualifies M51 Missile on French SSBN

PARIS --- French Defence Minister Hervé Morin expressed his satisfaction after today’s successful launch of an M51 strategic missile by the nuclear-powered missile submarine Le Terrible. As is always the ...

Boeing Flies F-15 Silent Eagle Demonstrator

ST. LOUIS --- The Boeing Company Silent Eagle flight demonstrator aircraft F-15E1 completed a successful first flight on July 8 from Lambert St. Louis International Airport. During the 80-minute flight, ...

France Tests Top-Attack Laser-Guided Bomb

France’s Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) defence procurement agency on June 17, 2010 carried out the first launch of the laser-guided variant of the Armement Air-Sol Modulaire (modular air-to-ground weapon, ...

GAO Faults Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle

Given the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) development’s cost, schedule, and less-than-expected performance during its initial operational assessment and other issues, we were asked to review the EFV program. This briefing ...

Second Scorpene SSK Arrives in Malaysia

The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) second Scorpene submarine, KD Tun Razak, reached the Lumut naval base for an official homecoming ceremony on the 2nd of July. Mid-July, she will sail ...

First French Army VBCIs Arrive in Afghanistan

The first VBCI infantry combat vehicles arrived in Afghanistan on June 27, 2010. The Direction Générale de l’Armement was instrumental in preparing this first foreign deployment. On May 12 the SS ...
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