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4 February 2015

Egypt Close To Buying 22 Rafale Fighters, 2 FREMM Frigates Worth Euro 6 Billion

Egypt and France are close to signing a 5 to 6 billion Euro contract for the sale of twenty Rafale and two FREMM multi-mission frigates. La Tribune newspaper said on its website today...

C-27J Spartan (Osman Tüfekçi © XAirForces)

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4 February 2015

Peru to Buy Two Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartans For $116.28 million

Finmeccanica Alenia Aermacchi signed a contract valued at around US$116.28 million with the Peruvian Ministry of Defense to supply two C-27J Spartan tactical airlifters. The contract signed on December 31, 2014 brings the number...

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4 February 2015

Philippines To Buy C130 Transport Planes From US Navy

The Philippine military signed a pact with the US Navy last Friday to buy two secondhand C-130 Hercules transport planes for territorial defense and humanitarian operations. “The United States is helping us pay for these...

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3 February 2015

Northrop Starts Production Of South Korean Global Hawks, To Deliver By 2018

Northrop Grumman announced Monday that it will begin production of four RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for the Republic of Korea’s Air Force. The systems will provide valuable wide-area intelligence gathering capabilities...

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3 February 2015

New Russian Military Helicopter to Have Top Speed of 400 Kmph

Russia is developing a cutting-edge multipurpose aircraft with the use of a state-of-the-art technology. Russia is going to build a new military helicopter that will be able to fly at a “revolutionary” speed of...

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3 February 2015

US Defense Budget Allocates Funds for NATO’s Baltic Air Policing Mission

US Defense Department announced Monday that four-and-half million US dollars could be allocated to a US Air Force sponsored Baltic air policing initiative with NATO partners. Four-and-half million US dollars could be allocated to...

Georgian Soldier with U.S. Army's Soldiers.

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3 February 2015

NATO Plans to Hold Military Exercises in Georgia in 2015

NATO is planning to hold military drills in Georgia in 2015, a source in the Alliance said on Tuesday. “NATO will hold exercises in Georgia this year,” the source said. In September 2014, former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen...

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3 February 2015

Australia Gifts Two LCH To Philippine Navy

Australia has gifted two recently decommissioned Landing Craft Heavy (LCH) or supply ships to the Philippine Navy, Australian Defense Minister Kevin Andrews announced on Thursday, January 29. HMAS Tarakan and Brunei are the two...

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3 February 2015

Airstrike kills 27 Shabaab militants in Somalia

“The airstrike targeted Al-Shabaab camps in Bulo-gudud town in the Lower Jubba region,” Col. Mohamed Sheikh Abdi told local media, while refraining from saying who had carried out the strike. At least 27 Al-Shabaab...

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3 February 2015

Ukraine separatists ‘call up 100,000 troops’

Separatist leader in Donetsk announces “general mobilization” as Russian official denounces John Kerry’s comments on arming Ukrainian forces The leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has announced the mobilization of 100,000 separatist troops,...