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Americas
US Navy Awards Boeing $220M Taiwan Harpoon Contract
The US Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Boeing a $220 million contract to configure Taiwan’s Harpoon Coastal Defense Systems.
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Air
USAF to Test Hypersonic Missiles With B-1B Bomber Next Year
Boeing officials have revealed that the US Air Force plans to test the B-1B bomber’s hypersonic weapons capabilities by September of next year.
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Air
Chinese J-20 Aircraft Receives Upgraded Domestic Engine
The Chinese J-20 fighter flew with a domestic engine for the first time in public this week, according to several media outlets.
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Air
China Interested in Armed Russian Ship-Borne Helicopter
The Chinese navy is considering the purchase of three dozen Russian Kamov Ka-52K helicopters, the ship-borne version of the Ka-52 Alligator reconnaissance and combat helicopter.
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Americas
US Navy Launches Task Group to Hunt Russian Submarines
The US Navy recently announced the formation of a task group comprising Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to counter the Russian submarine threat in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Americas
Lockheed Receives Stryker-Mounted Electronic Warfare Contract
The US Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $9.6 million second-round contract for a vehicle-mounted integrated suite of Signals Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Cyberspace Operations.
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Air
USAF Awards $85 Million Contract for Bomb Disposal Robot
The US Air Force has awarded L3Harris Technologies an $85-million contract to procure 170 bomb disposal robots for airbase protection.
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Arms
New British Special Forces Rifle Can Shoot Down Helicopter
The British special forces have acquired 150 Gepard GM6 Lynx anti-materiel rifles capable of shooting down aircraft and damaging armored vehicles with one shot.
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Arctic
Russia Developing Extended-Use, Under-Ice Aquatic Drone
Russia’s Lazurit Central Design Bureau has teamed up with defense concern Almaz-Antey to develop an unmanned underwater vessel (UUV) capable of running under ice for up to three months, TASS revealed.
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Air
US Air Force Tests Robotic Aircraft Weapon Loading System
The US Air Force recently tested a robotic system prototype for aircraft weapon loading at the Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.
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