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MBDA’s Sea Ceptor Selected for Brazilian Navy’s Next Generation Corvette Programme

The Brazilian Navy has selected MBDA’s Sea Ceptor to provide the local area air defence for its next generation Tamandaré class corvettes. After the UK’s Royal Navy (RN) and the…

Morpho signs contract with AOI Electronics to locally produce national eID cards for Egypt

Paris, November 28, 2014, Morpho (Safran), the world leader in government identity solutions, has signed a contract with AOI (Arab Organisation for Industrialisation) Electronics to produce the Egyptian national eID…

Thuraya Wins Telecom Review’s Satellite Operator of the Year Award

Thuraya Telecommunications Company, a leading Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) operator, has been named the winner of Telecom Review’s Satellite Operator of the Year Award at its fifth annual it’s All…

Eurofighter and Netma Welcome Ministerial Talks

Representatives of the Eurofighter Typhoon consortium have welcomed multi-national ministerial talks about the future of the Programme. The talks took place in Edinburgh/Scotland for over two days. Discussions covered a…

Sheikh Ahmed Welcomes Air Astana and Their New Daily Services to Dubai From Almaty

Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Airports; President of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority; Chairman and CEO of Emirates Group and Chairman of flydubai laid on a…

Airbus Defense and Space Delivers More Naval Radars to US Navy Littoral Combat Ship Program

Airbus Defense and Space delivers more naval radars to US Navy Littoral Combat Ship program under contract to Lockheed Martin TRS-3D (AN SPS-75) radar provides information superiority in maritime security…

Russian Helicopters Launches Flight Testing on Mi-171A2

Russian Helicopters (part of State Corporation Rostec) has launched flight tests on the first prototype of the multirole Mi-171A2 helicopter. During its first flight its main systems were tested and…

Finmeccanica – Selex ES and Airbus Defence and Space team-up for UK MoD Mode 5 IFF study

Finmeccanica – Selex ES-led team awarded 12 month platform integration study contract by the UK MoD. • Contract will precede the introduction of the Mode 5 IFF standard across UK…

ADS Receives Contract for System Evolution and Maintenance of the Five Eagle Vision Stations

 Five years contract for the world’s first deployable satellite imagery ground system Airbus Defence and Space has been awarded a contract for system evolution and maintenance of the US Air…

UAS Opens Asian Headquarters and Beijing Regional Office

UAS International Trip Support continues its 2014 expansion and growth with the opening of two new offices. The first of which isan Asia Pacific Headquarters in Hong Kong and secondly…