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Nov 19, 2020, 09:08
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Marc Selinger
Lockheed Martin has promoted longtime executive Paul Lemmo to president of its Sikorsky helicopter company, replacing Dan Schultz, who is retiring, the US defence...
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Nov 19, 2020, 09:08
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Marc Selinger
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to boost defence spending by GBP16.5 billion (USD21.8 billion) over the next four years and create new entities for artificial...
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Nov 19, 2020, 09:07
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Marc Selinger
The United States engineering firm Belcan has acquired software engineering provider Avista, which serves defence and other sectors, Belcan announced on 18 November.
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Nov 18, 2020, 16:42
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Pat Host
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued contracts to three industry teams to develop experimental aircraft (X-plane) based on active flow...
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Nov 18, 2020, 15:58
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Andreas Rupprecht & Gabriel Dominguez
Footage released by Chinese state-owned media on 17 November of the test facility at the Huangdicun naval airbase suggests that Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) has...
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Nov 18, 2020, 13:53
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Jeremy Binnie
The Libyan National Army (LNA), the powerful faction that controls eastern Libya, has displayed what appears to have been a South African-made 155 mm G5 gun-howitzer and...
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Nov 18, 2020, 10:36
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Gareth Jennings
Iraqi Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcons have undertaken their first combat operation since the recent return to the country of contractors who had been evacuated...
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Nov 18, 2020, 09:06
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Ashley Roque
The Pentagon confirmed plans to slash US troop levels in Afghanistan from about 4,500 down to 2,500, and in Iraq from 3,000 to 2,500 before President-elect Joe Biden is...
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Nov 18, 2020, 09:05
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Pat Host
The US Navy (USN) in October acquired a logistics unmanned aerial system (UAS) prototype developed by Skyways of Austin, Texas, to demonstrate long-range naval...
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Nov 18, 2020, 09:04
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Dmitry Fediushko
Russia’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Protection Troops are testing the TOS-2 Tosochka multiple rocket launcher (MRL), the service’s commander,...
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Nov 17, 2020, 16:45
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Gareth Jennings
The United Kingdom needs to devote more resources to defending its critical space-based interests, with the chief of the Royal Air Force (RAF) warning of the increasing...
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Nov 17, 2020, 16:06
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Jeremy Binnie
The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) is holding a joint exercise with Sudan for the first time: a move likely to raise Ethiopian concerns about the growing defence ties between...
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Nov 17, 2020, 16:04
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Victor Barreira & Gareth Jennings
Embraer Defense and Security will deliver two KC-390 Millennium airlifters to the Hungarian Air Force (HuAF) between 2023 and 2024, the Brazilian company announced on 17...
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Nov 17, 2020, 16:04
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Daniel Wasserbly
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) tested an SM-3 Block IIA interceptor against an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)-class target for the first time on 17...
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Nov 17, 2020, 14:37
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Gareth Jennings
A team of United Kingdom and United States military leaders has been set up in a first-of-its-kind collaboration to take pitches from international technology firms on...
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Nov 17, 2020, 12:02
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Eric Randolph
The huge increase in the sale and transport of waste plastic has created lucrative and varied opportunities for unscrupulous businesses and organised crime groups (OCGs)...
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Nov 17, 2020, 09:07
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Pat Host
Martin UAV is developing a new version of its V-Bat mini vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will feature increased endurance and...
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Nov 17, 2020, 09:06
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Marc Selinger
US-based government services provider PAE has agreed to acquire American intelligence business Metis Solutions for USD92 million in cash, PAE announced on 16 November.
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Nov 17, 2020, 09:05
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Victor Barreira
The Brazilian Navy is exploring ways to modernise the Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais) and has unveiled a plan to merge three previous modernisation programmes...
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Nov 17, 2020, 08:58
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Victor Barreira
Nexter is joining the field vying to win the US Army’s towed howitzer replacement competition, and is proposing its CAmionÉquipé d’un Système d’ARtillerie (CAESAR)...
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