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| Announcement: India Orders 8 Boeing Military Planes |
| Posted: el @ Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:30 pm |
India Orders 8 Boeing Military Planes In $2.1 Billion Deal
NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- The Indian government Monday said it has signed a $2.1 billion deal with Boeing Co. (BA) for the supply of eight P-8I maritime patrol aircraft in its latest move to modernize its mainly Soviet-vintage armed forces.
The agreement for the P-8I, which is the proposed Indian variant of the U.S. Navy's long-range maritime P-8A aircraft, will boost the South Asian nation's ability to monitor its 7,600 kilometer co...
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| Announcement: Supply plane crashes in Antarctica, passengers survive |
| Posted: el @ Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:10 pm |
MOSCOW, January 5 (RIA Novosti) - A transport plane working with an international expedition has crashed in the Antarctic, although all four people on board survived, a Russian polar explorer said on Monday.
Artur Chilingarov, the Russian president's special representative for international cooperation in the Arctic and Antarctic, said that the plane could not be repaired and that the plans for the international expedition could change.
"Pilots transporting spare parts for the cross...
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| Announcement: Pakistan to begin serial production of JF-17 combat jet |
| Posted: el @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:52 pm |
Pakistan to begin serial production of JF-17 combat jet
Islamabad, Jan 2 (IANS) The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) is to soon begin serial production of the JF-17 Thunder multi-role combat jet that has been developed in collaboration with China, a parliamentary panel has been informed.PAC chairperson Air Marshal Khalid Chaudhry told the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defence Production during its visit to the complex Thursday that a factory for serial production of the JF-17 h...
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| Announcement: Greece Agrees Russian Air And Sea Maneuvers In Aegean |
| Posted: el @ Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:39 pm |
Greece Agrees Russian Air And Sea Maneuvers In Aegean
ATHENS, Jan 2, 2009 (AFP)--Russian aircraft and warships will this month carry out maneuvers in the southeast Aegean within the Athens flight information zone, or FIZ, Greek military sources said Friday.
Athens has agreed to a request from the commander of the Russian heavy aircraft carrying cruiser the Admiral Kuznetsov, at present on a mission in the Mediterranean with other ships of Russia's northern fleet.
The exercises will take...
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| Announcement: System Upgrades For 2,000 F/A-18s |
| Posted: el @ Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:35 pm |
Boeing will upgrade the mission systems in 2,000 F/A-18s operated by eight countries through a $905.3 million system configuration set contract awarded by the U.S. Navy.
F/A-18 A/B, C/D, E/F and EA-18G aircraft from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Spain, Kuwait, Switzerland, Finland and Malaysia will receive the enhancements scheduled to be finished in December 2013.
The upgrades are part of an effort to keep the fighters "in front of developing threats over the next three decades,"...
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| Announcement: Elbit, IAI get $141 mln TuAF deal |
| Posted: el @ Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:57 pm |
JERUSALEM, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Israel's two largest defence contractors said on Thursday they had won a joint $141 million contract to supply the Turkish Air Force with combined airborne imagery intelligence systems.
The deal was awarded to units of Elbit Systems (ESLT.O) (ESLT.TA), Israel's largest private defence firm, and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the country's biggest defence company.
Elbit's share will be $87 million, while IAI will receive $54 million, the compani...
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| Announcement: Israel launches air strikes on Gaza, 145 dead |
| Posted: el @ Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:41 pm |
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli warplanes destroyed dozens of security compounds across Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday in unprecedented waves of air strikes, killing at least 145 people and wounding more than 310 in the single deadliest day in Gaza fighting in recent memory, Palestinian medical officials said.
The strikes came in response to renewed rocket fire from Gaza on Israeli border towns. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said "the operation will last as long as necessary" ...
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| Announcement: Russia testing new missile for S-400 |
| Posted: el @ Fri Dec 26, 2008 7:45 pm |
CHKALOVSKY (Moscow Region), December 26 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Air Force is testing a new missile for the S-400 Triumf air defense system, the Air Force commander said on Friday.
The S-400 (SA-21 Growler) is designed to intercept and destroy airborne targets at a distance of up to 400 kilometers (250 miles), twice the range of the U.S. MIM-104 Patriot, and 2.5 times that of the S-300PMU-2.
The system is expected to form the cornerstone of Russia's theater air and missile defenses up...
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| Announcement: New Russian nuclear sub to start trials |
| Posted: tasoscorsair @ Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:40 pm |
SEVERODVINSK (RIA Novosti) - Russia's first Borey class strategic nuclear submarine will start sea trials by the end of 2008, the Sevmash shipyard said on Thursday.
The fourth-generation Yury Dolgoruky was built at the Sevmash plant in northern Russia and was taken out of dry dock in April 2007. It will be equipped with Bulava ballistic missiles upgraded from Topol-M (SS-27) missiles.
"The [submarine's] reactor will be switched on by the end of November. Yury Dolgoruky will go to sea...
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| Announcement: Brazil to purchase 50 helicopters, 4 submarines from France |
| Posted: el @ Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:22 pm |
Brazil to purchase 50 helicopters, four submarines from France (2008-12-24)
By: AFP news agency © BBC , BBC Monitoring
Rio de Janeiro, 23 December 2008: Today, Tuesday, Brazil signed an agreement to purchase 50 French EC-725 transport helicopters and four Scorpene attack submarines and is to build a nuclear-propelled submarine with French cooperation, it was noted by an AFP journalist.
These contracts were signed in the presence of French President Nicolas Sarkozy an...
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