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S. Korean Air-Defense Missile Passes Key Performance Test

S. Korean Air-Defense Missile Passes Key Performance Test

SEOUL — South Korea has successfully conducted key performance tests of a homegrown ship-based guided missile ahead of its deployment next year, the state-run defense quality assessment agency and Navy officials said Friday.

The Defense Agency for Technology and Quality (DTaQ) said that the mis…

HHI Wins $60M to Modify Future LHA8 to Operate F-35B Aircraft

HHI Wins $60M to Modify Future LHA8 to Operate F-35B Aircraft

Huntington Ingalls Inc. – Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is awarded a $60,425,462 not-to-exceed undefinitized contract action for integration of four Joint Strike Fighter engineering change proposals in support of one amphibious assault ship (General Purpose) replacement (LHA(R)) Fli…
Pakistan Cuts Steel on First of Four Chinese Subs

Pakistan Cuts Steel on First of Four Chinese Subs

KARACHI — The steel cutting ceremony of locally built Hangor Class Submarine 5 was held at the Karachi shipyard on Thursday.

Chief of the Naval Staff Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi graced the ceremony as chief guest, said DGPR Navy in a statement. Ghazi of the 1971 war, Admiral Retired Ahmad Tasneem…

GA-ASI Unveils New Mojave UAV for Austere Field Operations

GA-ASI Unveils New Mojave UAV for Austere Field Operations

SAN DIEGO — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is unveiling a new Unmanned Aircraft System called Mojave, named for one of the harshest and most austere areas the world, where deadly rattlesnakes and horned lizards adapt to survive the extreme forces of nature.

Mojave is based …

Norway Takes Delivery of Final Three F-35s Due in 2021

Norway Takes Delivery of Final Three F-35s Due in 2021

On Thursday 9 December, three new F-35 fighter jets landed at Ørland main airport, and with that, Norway has received all the six aircraft that were to be delivered in 2021.

Director of Defense Materiel Mette Sørfonden believes this is a good example of how Forsvarsmateriell has managed to mainta…

France to Receive Year’s Third A330 Tanker Aircraft

France to Receive Year’s Third A330 Tanker Aircraft

The Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) is preparing to take delivery in the coming days of the sixth A330-MRTT (Multi Role Tanker Transport) Phoenix multi-role refueling aircraft, at Air Base 125 “Charles Monier” in Istres (Bouches-du-Rhône).

Since December 7, when the aircraft arrived in Is…

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