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MDA Hid Half the Cost of Missile Defense: GAO

MDA Hid Half the Cost of Missile Defense: GAO

Since 2002, the Missile Defense Agency has received over $174 billion to develop systems that detect, track, and defeat enemy missiles.

However, we found that the agency’s cost estimates for these systems are incomplete. For instance, they don’t include full life-cycle cost estimates for programs…

NATO Asks Russia to Stop Anti-Satellite Tests: El Pais

NATO Asks Russia to Stop Anti-Satellite Tests: El Pais

MADRID — NATO has proposed to Russia to conduct joint consultations on reducing threats in space and urged Moscow to refrain from testing anti-satellite weapons, Spain’s El Pais newspaper wrote on Wednesday, publishing the full text of US and NATO confidential responses to Russia’s proposals on se…
India Flight-Tests Rafale’s Naval Version for INS Vikrant

India Flight-Tests Rafale’s Naval Version for INS Vikrant

KOLKATA, India — The marine version of the French-made Rafale fighter jet has been successfully flight-tested at a shore-based facility in Goa where conditions similar to that on the indigenously-developed aircraft carrier INS Vikrant were simulated, a top diplomat said.

The Rafale-M is pitted …

Hanwha Defense Details $1.7Bn Sale of K9 SP Guns to Egypt

Hanwha Defense Details $1.7Bn Sale of K9 SP Guns to Egypt

Hanwha Defense signed a contract on February 1 to provide a package of self-propelled howitzers and its support vehicles to the Egyptian Armed Forces.

The contract is valued around $1.7 billion for hundreds of the K9 Self-Propelled Howitzer (SPH), K10 Ammunition Resupply Vehicles, and K11 Fire Di…


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