PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Today, Czech Defense Minister Lubomír Metnar signed a contract for the acquisition of 52 CAESAR self-propelled artillery guns in an eight-wheel drive (8×8) version, in the presence of French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly and Nicolas Chamussy, CEO of Nexter Gr…

The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) in its meeting of 29 September 2021 held under the Chairmanship of Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for Capital Acquisitions proposals for modernization and operational needs of the Indian Armed Forces amounting to approx. …

LONDON — BAE Systems said Tempest, the British-led project to build a new fighter jet, would sign contracts with partners Italy and Sweden by the end of this year and talks were ongoing with Japan about joining the project.

BAE’s director of Future Combat Air Systems Michael Christie said he ex…

Our military successfully test-fired a locally-developed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from a new submarine. This test will make our country the seventh country in the world to successfully fire an SLBM.

“We successfully test-fired the country’s first SLBM from a submarine at the ge…

Raytheon Co., Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $358,028,032 firm-fixed-price contract in support of the fiscal 2021-2023 Evolved Seasparrow Missile (ESSM) Block 2 full rate production requirements.

The ESSM program is an international cooperative effort to design, develop, test, and procure ESSM mi…

SAN DIEGO, CA. — USS Freedom (LCS 1), the lead ship of the Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship, recognized more than a decade of naval service during a decommissioning ceremony at Naval Base San Diego.

Due to public health safety and restrictions of large public events related to the novel cor…