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  Madrid. Airbus Defence and Space has received a firm order from the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) for a further three A330 MRTT Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft, a company press statement said on December...

  BREMEN, GERMANY. Germany has extended the successful operation of the Heron 1 drones by Airbus DS Airborne Solutions GmbH, a company of Airbus, until mid of 2020, Airbus in a statement said December 12. These...

AMSTERDAM. Airbus SE (stock exchange symbol: AIR) has appointed Alberto Gutiérrez, 56, Head of Military Aircraft within Airbus Defence and Space, effective January 1, 2019. He will report to Airbus Defence and Space...

  EVERETT, Washington. The US Air Force has exercised the option for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s second Boeing KC-46 tanker through the Foreign Military Sale (FMS) process. Boeing was awarded the initial FMS contract for...

  RAAF BASE WILLIAMTOWN and NEWCASTLE, Australia. Australia's first two locally-based F-35 fighter aircraft arrived on home soil at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Williamtown on December 9 signalling the dawn of a new era...

  NAVAL GROUP participates to Exponaval 2018 in Concón Valparaiso, Chili, December 4-7, 2018. Naval Group is one of the rare players in the naval industry to have the capacity to design, build, service and...

  MADRID.Lockheed Martin and Airbus have signed an agreement to jointly explore opportunities to meet the growing demand for aerial refuelling for US defence customers. The companies will seek to provide aerial-refuelling services to address any...

  EVERETT, Washington. Boeing’s KC-46 tanker program has completed its planned Phase II receiver certification flight testing following three weeks of flights with F-15E aircraft out of Edwards Air Force Base, California, a company press...

  NEW DELHI. This is for the first time that the joint exercise between Indian Air Force (IAF) and the United States Air Force (USAF) is being planned at two IAF bases of Kalaikunda and...

  ELTA SYSTEMS, a division and subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), has unveiled a new and enhanced configuration of its Drone Guard system which detects, identifies and disrupts the operation of UAS and small...

  BRUSSELS. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has been notified that the Government of Belgium has approved Belgian Defense to begin negotiations with the US Government to acquire the MQ-9B SkyGuardian Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). “We...

  LINKOPING, SWEDEN. Swedish defence major Saab has successfully completed a test flight by a Gripen E aircraft with the Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM) for the first time. The flight included two Meteor...

  ROSOBORONEXPORT, a member of Rostec, will set up a joint Russian exposition at Bahrain International Airshow 2018 (BIAS), a fifth iteration of an international exhibition to take place at Sakhir AFB in the Kingdom...