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[...] in December 2016. The post GDLS-Canada to supply LAV-UP surveillance upgrade appeared first on Defence Army. [...]

[...] U.S. helicopters and MV-22 Ospreys are on the ground in northern Iraq and operating from a secure airfield protected by Kurdish forces, the latest sign of an [...]

[...] A small party of US troops was flown onto Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq on Wednesday for the first time to assess the situation of thousands of civilian refugees [...]

[...] Germany will deliver weapons, vehicles and non-lethal equipment to the Peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq to support their struggle against the Islamic State. “It is important not only to alleviate [...]

[...] is already providing machine guns and ammunition to Kurdish forces fighting IS jihadists in northern Iraq. Six British Tornado jets and a refueling tanker based in Cyprus have also been carrying out [...]

[...] Wing 1, scheduled to deploy next year aboard the carrier Theodore Roosevelt. Developed by Northrop Grumman, the E-2D is a greatly modified version of the E-2C Hawkeye, a stalwart of deployed carrier [...]

[...] essence, Army engineers will double-check work done by corporate partners Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and BAE. Contracts for similar double-checks to software have been awarded to corporate [...]

[...] essence, Army engineers will double-check work done by corporate partners Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and BAE. Contracts for similar double-checks to software have been awarded to corporate [...]

[...] European aerospace giant Airbus confirmed Wednesday that its Airbus Defence and Space unit is being investigated for allegations of bribery involving contracts with [...]

[...] has effectively acted as an air-to-air refuelling tanker airplane for the first time, Airbus Defence and Space announced on 28 August. An organization-owned A400M refuelled a Spanish Air Power [...]

[...] in 2016. The first group of Malaysian pilot trainees have commenced instruction at the Airbus Defence and Space International Training Centre. They will be joined by maintenance engineers and [...]

[...] it was the largest ever fighter upgrade program ever handled by BAE. Eurofighter is owned by Airbus Defence and Space, BAE and Finmeccanica. The four-nation European program involves Britain, Germany, [...]

[...] involved Sunnis, Shias and Kurds, Hagel said. “The Iraqi government, under Maliki, has to take considerable responsibility for this,” he said. The 130-member [...]

[...] to support Kurdish peshmerga forces could complicated the United States’ ties to the Iraqi government in Baghdad, which is also fighting the Islamic State but has tense relations with [...]

[...] Iraq. Once permission is obtained, Aero Vodochody could conclude a sales contract with the Iraqi government by the end of September and supply the first four aircraft currently in service with the ACR [...]

[...] the two leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York. “I have been asked by the Iraqi government for our help and so I’ll be recalling the British parliament on Friday so that Britain [...]

[...] out from 0615 GMT, when aircraft struck and destroyed an armed vehicle firing on Kurdish forces outside Arbil in northern Iraq. Shortly after the strike, US forces located another IS [...]

[...] The United States has begun urgently shipping weapons to the Iraqi Kurdish forces battling an advance by extremist Islamic State militants, a State Department spokeswoman said [...]

[...] Ospreys are on the ground in northern Iraq and operating from a secure airfield protected by Kurdish forces, the latest sign of an expanding Iraq mission that now includes about 1,000 U.S. troops, [...]

[...] this vile threat,” he said. Britain is already providing machine guns and ammunition to Kurdish forces fighting IS jihadists in northern Iraq. Six British Tornado jets and a refueling tanker [...]

[...] will be one of the major reforms to come out of the NATO summit in Wales, Sept. 4-5. Russian President Vladimir Putin used unconventional tactics to seize the Crimea from Ukraine and continues to rely [...]

Polish anti-communist icon Lech Walesa said Poland should procurenuclear weapons as a safeguard against Russia, which it blames for stoking the crisis [...]

[...] of the Arctic Strategic Command by Russia’s Defense Ministry. In April, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Arctic has traditionally been a sphere of “special interest” to Moscow. [...]