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The Pentagon is studying potential commonality in ICBM and SLBM recapitalisation
Increasingly constrained budgets are driving the department to seek efficiency
The US Air Force (USAF) and the US Navy (USN) are studying ways to collaborate on technology for their next-generation
USAF-USN report outlines potential commonality for strategic missile upgrades
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US contracts C208B ISR aircraft for FMS customers
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded contracts valued at USD54.1 million for the delivery of Cessna C208B Grand Caravan intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to a number of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers.
The USD39.9 million and USD14.2 million contracts
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Textron expands unmanned systems service and support centre
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Textron has expanded its unmanned systems presence in Blackstone, Virginia, with the opening of a training and maintenance facility
Textron's UAS business is now some 90% military
Textron Systems Unmanned Systems has completed construction of its unmanned aircraft system (UAS) training
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Spain orders Scorpion helmets for F/A-18 fighters
The Spanish Air Force is to equip its McDonnell Douglas EF-18 Hornet fighter aircrew with 80 of Thales' Scorpion Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems (HMCS).
Spain will become the first user for the system outside of the United States, which are produced at the company's plant in Aurora, Illinois. Thales
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Space systems drag down MHI defence income
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has reported marginal growth in sales for its defence unit and the wider group during fiscal year (FY) 2015, the Japanese corporation announced on 9 May.
MHI said group sales in the year ending 31 March were JPY4.04 trillion (USD37.3 billion), an increase of 1.4%
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SOFEX 2016: Lebanese Black Panthers win Warrior competition
An Arab team won Jordan's Warrior competition for the first time when Lebanon's Black Panthers beat 26 other teams.
Run by Jordan's King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Centre (KASOTC), the 8th Annual Warrior Competition ran from 2-6 May.
Colonel Ahmed Kaiber, the commandant of KASOTC,
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Nigeria gets ex-Sri Lankan inshore patrol craft
The Sri Lankan Navy reported that it handed over six of its Arrow-class inshore patrol craft and three other inshore patrol craft of an unidentified type to the Nigerian Navy on 6 May. It said the boats were sold to Nigeria for USD4.2 million.
Sri Lanka began to build large numbers of small boats
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Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) announces further job cuts
Beleaguered shipbuilder, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), has announced a further round of significant job cuts as part of efforts to rebalance its books.
The corporation, one of South Korea's biggest naval shipyards, said on 9 May that it will implement "intense management reform plans"
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Colombian Air Force repairs AC-47T gunship
The Colombian Air Force's Air Maintenance Center announced on 6 May that it finalised repairs on a damaged AC-47T 'Fantasma' (phantom) gunship.
The aircraft was damaged in a 5 January accident when it overran the runway at Tres Esquinas military base, which belongs to Air Combat Command (CACOM) No
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China warns Philippines it will not be 'blackmailed' in South China Sea dispute
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Beijing has told Manila it will not tolerate 'blackmail' in any territorial dispute
Philippine president-elect Duterte says he is open to talks with China
Only weeks before an expected ruling by an international tribunal on the legality of China's territorial claims in the South China
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China and Russia take aim at THAAD with hypersonic programmes
South Korea's planned deployment of the Lockheed Martin Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system has spurred both China and Russia to accelerate their hypersonic vehicle test programmes.
According to US news reporting based on leaks from the Pentagon, China conducted a seventh flight test
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ASEAN, regional navies hone counterterrorism capabilities in multilateral maritime exercise
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Armed forces from ASEAN and the wider Asia-Pacific region are involved in the largest multilateral counterterrorism exercise of its kind to date
Exercise aims to boost interoperability and co-ordination among armed forces to address threat of terrorism
Against the backdrop of rising
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AgustaWestland bribery inquiry could further delay Indian modernisation
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A revival of the AgustaWestland graft inquiry could cause renewed slippage in several Indian procurement programmes
The prevailing atmosphere could also further delay the purchase of 36 French Dassault Rafale fighters, officials say
India's military modernisation may face further delay
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UK's understanding of law for use of UAVs in targeted killings outside of war 'misconceived', report finds
A UK parliamentary committee has questioned the government's interpretation of international law when it comes to the targeted killings of suspected terrorists that take place by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) outside of the scope of conventional armed conflicts.
The report by the Joint Committee
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Philippine Navy's lead SSV sails towards home
The first strategic sealift vessel (SSV) on order for the Philippine Navy (PN) has departed Surabaya and is now on its way towards Manila, a PT PAL official told IHS Jane's on 9 May.
The landing platform dock-like vessel, which will be the future BRP Tarlac (601), was sent off on the previous day
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Peruvian Navy launches new BAP Carrasco
On 7 May Spanish shipyard Construcciones Navales P Freire SA launched BAP Carrasco , the Peruvian Navy's new oceanographic polar vessel, during a ceremony in Vigo, Spain.
Peruvian president Ollanta Humala, minister of defense Jakke Valakivi, and Peruvian Navy commander Admiral Edmundo Deville del
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Pakistani-US F-16 deal hits another snag
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The US has dropped the subsidy it had offered for Pakistan's purchase of eight F-16s
Islamabad insists the deal must be 'free of any preconditions'
The US sale of Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters to Pakistan may have hit another snag. A senior Pakistani government official said on 7 May
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Iran parades S-300 components
Iran's Armed Forces Day parade on 17 April featured a surveillance radar for a S-300PMU1/2, but nothing to suggest the Islamic Republic now has an operational fire unit for the long-range air defence system.
Iranian and Russian officials confirmed on 11 April the first S-300 delivery had taken
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China kicks off naval drills in South China Sea
China has launched annual combat drills in the South China Sea and neighbouring waters.
According to state-run news agency Xinhua the naval exercises, aimed at enhancing combat readiness and practise co-ordination between ships, aircraft and other forces, began on 4 May when three naval ships of
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BAE Systems looks to sell M777s to the UAE
BAE Systems confirmed on 5 May that it is working with Emirates Defense Technology (EDT) to develop a self-propelled version of its 155 mm M777 howitzer for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces.
The confirmation came in a statement that announced it had signed a teaming agreement with EDT
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