The US Navy (USN) will continue to fund the acquisition of two Virginia-class fast attack submarines per year from fiscal year 2015 (FY 2015) through FY 2019 while it ramps up design work on the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine replacement programme.
In FY 2015 the navy is requesting USD5.88
Pentagon budget 2015: Submarines continue to reign supreme in USN's shipbuilding funds request
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Pentagon budget 2015: Only some brigades to fully train as army budget shrinks
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US Forces Korea, the Global Response Force, and a new Army Contingency Force will get full brigade-level training
The US Army will begin generating units with varying degrees of 'readiness' - the military's term for how well prepared the force is for full-scale warfare - as the service
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Pentagon budget 2015: Development of soldier networks is critical for the US Army
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Affordability issue leads the US Army to delay WIN-T SATCOM on-the-move
DCGS would get funding for software development and testing
In its fiscal year 2015 (FY 2015) budget request, the US Army continues to support and fund efforts to develop, test, and procure communications
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MENA country orders more Skyguard fire units
Rheinmetall Defence announced on 4 March that it had signed a EUR83 million (USD114 million) contract with an unidentified country in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for an unspecified number of Skyguard fire units.
A fire unit for the short-range air defence system typically
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Indonesia test fires new indigenously produced rocket launcher
The Indonesian Armed Forces (Tentara Nasional Indonesia - TNI) test fired rockets from an indigenously produced tactical military vehicle known as the 6X6 Kenderaan Taktis (Rantis) on 6 March.
According to a statement released by the Indonesian Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) media centre, the tests
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Honeywell sets aside billions for acquisitions
Honeywell plans to allocate more than USD10 billion to strategic acquisitions over the next five years, the company said in a 7 March press statement accompanying an investor conference.
Company spokesman Rob Ferris declined to comment on areas that might be targets for acquisitions.
Honeywell
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Germany receives final ASGARD-upgraded Tiger helos
The Germany Army has received the last of 12 Airbus Tiger attack helicopters that have been upgraded to Afghanistan Stabilisation German Army Rapid Deployment (ASGARD) standard, Airbus Group announced on 6 March.
The last of three batches of four helicopters was handed over to 36 Combat Helicopter
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Damen Schelde reveals design of new Vietnamese Sigma-class corvettes
Netherlands-based shipyard Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) revealed the latest iteration of the SIGMA 9814 corvette being acquired by the Vietnam People's Navy (VPN) during the Vietship 2014 exhibition in Hanoi.
The model displayed by DSNS has evolved from a previous design iteration in a
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Canada's oiler arrives in Hawaii for damage assessment following engine room fire
The Royal Canadian Navy's (RCN) auxiliary ship that suffered an engine room fire while transiting the Pacific Ocean in late February has arrived in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, US Navy (USN) officials announced on 7 March.
Towed by US fleet ocean tug USNS Sioux (T-AFT 171), the RCN's oiler HMCS Protecteur
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Update: Singapore considers larger amphibious ships
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) is examining the possibility of acquiring larger multipurpose amphibious landing platform dock ships (LPDMs) for the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen disclosed in parliament on 6 March.
The Republic of Singapore Navy currently operates a
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UK firm wins LOGIR support contract with South Korea
South Korea's Agency for Defense Development (ADD) is acquiring four 9 m high speed target boats from UK-based Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) in order to assess the effectiveness of a new precision guided weapon system against the threat posed by multiple fast surface craft.
With a maximum speed
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Saab to offer Gripen C/D upgrades, pushes exports
Saab is to continue to offer upgrades to the Gripen C/D combat aircraft to maintain the type's capability out beyond the introduction into service of the latest-variant Gripen E, a company official disclosed on 10 March.
Speaking during a media tour of the company's Linköping production
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Rolls-Royce offers to return agent payments to Indian MoD
Rolls-Royce has offered to return to India INR185.4 million (USD3.03 million) it claims to have paid a Singapore-based agent between 2007 and 2011 to help secure contracts with the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Bangalore, informed sources have told IHS Jane's .
The sources said
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Pentagon budget 2015: USN seeks funding for spectrum of C4I systems
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The navy would buy 33 CANES systems in its budget request
USN is asking to buy two G/ATOR LRIP units for the marines
In its fiscal year 2015 (FY 2015) budget request, the US Navy (USN) seeks to continue efforts to advance ship, space, and US Marine Corps (USMC) command, control,
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Germany orders 76 more Eagle Vs
Germany has ordered 76 more General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) Eagle V 4x4 protected command vehicles, the company announced on 10 March.
The vehicles are being ordered as part of the Geschützten Führungs- und Funktionsfahrzeugs (Armoured Command and Multi-functional Vehicle)
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Patria downsizes Finnish ammunition factory
Finnish defence company Patria has entered into redundancy negotiations with 23 staff at its Sastamala plant as the company prepares for a reduction in ammunition orders from the Finnish military, Patria announced on 11 March.
The Sastamala unit sits within Patria's Land Business Unit. Its
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Japanese, US P-3Cs still stuck in collapsed hangar
Officials have admitted they are struggling to recover six Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force aircraft and four US Navy (USN) P-3C aircraft that were damaged in Japan on 15 February when a hangar roof collapsed under heavy snowfall.
A senior official at Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) confirmed to
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EU moves closer to funding defence R&D
The European Commission (EC) is laying the policy groundwork to pull the European Union (EU) in the unprecedented direction of direct funding of defence research within a decade.
Meanwhile as an intermediary effort, the EC will seek modest funding to support dual-use research projects starting
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Denmark selects M60E6 as new LMG
The Danish Defence Forces (Forsvaret) have selected the US Ordnance M60E6 machine gun (MG) to replace its ageing LMG m/62 (Rheinmetall MG3) 7.62 mm squad support weapons, it was announced on 7 March.
The M60E6 is the latest generation of the M60, first adopted by the US Army in 1957. The US weapon
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Chinese marines get first taste of cold weather training
About 3,000 troops belonging to the People's Liberation Army Navy Marines (PLANM) were deployed together with their heavy equipment and vehicles to a training base in Inner Mongolia for winter warfare training, state media reported in late February.
It was the first time a PLANM brigade had been
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