Jane's Defense News

The US Air Force (USAF) on 7 December awarded Boeing a USD46 million contract modification to upgrade the avionics in its Boeing E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, according to a Pentagon statement. The contract modification is a firm-fixed-price and

The US Army on 30 August awarded Northrop Grumman a USD750 million contract to provide contractor lifecycle services for the Army’s Special Electronic Mission Aircraft (SEMA) fleet, according to a company statement. The award is a base year contract with eight option years, extending to 2027.

Key Points DigitalGlobe plans to compete for the follow-on to its 2010 EnhancedView contract award Planet and Airbus could be competitors DigitalGlobe plans to compete for the follow-on programme to its US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) EnhancedView contract when it opens to bids

Indonesia is to shortly receive into service the last six surplus Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon combat aircraft acquired from the US Air Force (USAF), the service announced on 6 December. The single-seat F-16C Block 25 aircraft were the last of 24 F-16C/D Block 25 aircraft that have been

Hungary plans to procure transport aircraft under the 10-year Zrinyi 2026 procurement programme. The first step of a two-phase plan unveiled by Lieutenant General Tibor Benkő, the Hungarian Armed Forces Chief of General Staff, in the pro-government Magyar Idők daily in September is to be

The export control group known as the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) has admitted India as a member. The move comes two years after India joined the multinational Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and one year after New Delhi updated its defence export guidelines with a view to improving

NATO and EU foreign ministers have endorsed a new set of 32 proposals to boost their two organisations’ co-operation against security threats, including a new push to accelerate military mobility, or the rapid deployment, of troops and materiel across Europe. The proposals are mostly an

Key Points A NDAA provision would bar Pentagon from buying satellite services from countries like Russia Commercial satellite communications companies that do business with DoD launch from Russia A fiscal year 2018 US defence authorisation bill provision governing what is known as covered

Russia is overhauling the Hungarian Air Force’s (HunAF’s) 12 Mi-24D attack helicopters under an agreement signed with Hungary on 31 October. In mid-November, a Russian An-124 transport aircraft took off from Kecskemet Air Base to St Petersburg with an unspecified number of Mi-24s on

A senior official from Rostec, Russia’s state-owned defence and industrial group, has outlined plans to establish a series of ‘technical service centres’ in India to boost support for Russian military hardware operated by the Indian military. In comments to the Press Trust of

Key Points Although Israel has controlled all of Jerusalem since the 1967 Six-Day War and Jerusalem serves as the de facto seat of the Israel government, the United States had until now refrained from conferring it an official status pending a final Israeli-Palestinian agreement as stipulated in

A CONVOY of soldiers was attacked by Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen militants on the outskirts of Beledweyn in Somalia's Hiiraan region on 6 December, Shabelle Media Network reported. Reports conflicted however on the nature of the attack, with accounts of both an ambush and a security forces

The Brazilian Navy is seeking to commission the UK Royal Navy’s HMS Ocean landing platform helicopter (LPH) by June 2018, the navy told Jane’s on 6 December. The navy is authorised to negotiate with the United Kingdom towards a GBP84.6 million (USD113 million) procurement. Prior to

The Brazilian Army is seeking to modernise its remaining M113B armoured personnel carriers (APCs), it recently told Jane’s . Such a programme has not been finalised, but plans are being discussed for a “third phase” of the M113BR project, officials said. The Brazilian Army

CAE has partnered with Rockwell Collins to advance Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) capabilities for distributed training exercises, with flight training as one of the developmental efforts currently under way. In the quest to develop LVC integrated training, the addition of the live flying aircraft

The government of China will “spare no effort” in boosting private-sector participation in defence production activities, the state-run China Daily reported on 6 December citing a senior defence industry official. In comments reported by the China Daily, Long Hongshan, chief engineer at

The Chinese military has voiced strong opposition to what it described as an “intrusion” of an Indian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into Chinese airspace, according to a 7 December report by the state-owned Xinhua news agency. “The Indian UAV intruded into China’s airspace

The European Defence Agency (EDA) has awarded Spanish company Aertec Solutions a contract to develop a prototype laser countermeasure system for integration on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The agency is studying critical components for military lasers and their use as wide-area sensor

Confusion is apparent over what impact the EU’s forthcoming European Defence Fund (EDF) will have on restructuring Europe’s defence technological and industrial base (DTIB) and especially national defence supply chains that mostly exclude foreign small- and medium-sized enterprises

Key Points The agency has broadened its cyber activities in recent years Collaboration with industry will assist in developing capabilities For the first time the focus of the European Defence Agency’s (EDA's) annual conference was exclusively on one topic: cyber, reflecting the importance