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Boeing gets B-52 support contract Wichita, Kan. (UPI) Jul 1, 2009 
A new contract between Boeing and the U.S. Air Force has the aircraft company providing engineering support for the United States' venerable B-52 fleet for the next 10 years.
Boeing announced reception of a $750 million, 10-year Engineering Sustainment Program contract that will keep a total of 150 jobs in Wichita, Kan.; Oklahoma City and Shreveport, La. "The ESP contract will ... read moreEADS wins Saudi border security deal 
Riyadh (AFP) July 1, 2009European aerospace and defence contractor EADS has signed a contract with Saudi Arabia to build a high-tech security fence on 9,000 kilometers (5,600 miles) of the country's border, the company said on Wednesday. In a long-awaited deal, EADS Defence and Security, a subsidiary of the French-German conglomerate, is expected to create a system of security posts and surface and aerial monitoring ... more
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U.S.-Japan dance on F-22 continues
Tokyo (UPI) Jun 26, 2009 U.S. defense officials are preparing a version of the stealth F-22 Raptor that Japan has expressed strong interest in buying. While the Department of Defense is working to design an export version of the Raptor, U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, this week sent a letter to Japanese Ambassador the United States Ichiro Fujisaki saying that the F-22 would likely carry a price tag of $290 ... more IAI Delivers First Batch Of Kfir Fighter Jets 
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Jet Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is delivering the first batch of upgraded Kfir fighter jets to the Colombian Air Force in a ceremony held at IAI's facilities in Israel. In attendance at the ceremony was Juan Hurtado Cano, the Colombian Ambassador to Israel, high ranking officers from the Colombian Air Force, and executives from the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD-SIBAT), and IAI. ... more US, Israel, Russia absent at Berlin cluster bomb talks 
Berlin (AFP) June 25, 2009Delegates from over 80 countries pledging to destroy their cluster bombs started a two-day conference in Berlin on Thursday to assess progress since a 2008 agreement banning the weapons. Absent however were United States, Israel, Russia and Georgia -- countries which have used cluster bombs in recent years and which refuse to sign up the agreement. China, India and Pakistan also stayed away. ... more Israel 'close to deal on F-35' 
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jun 24, 2009 After protracted disagreements, the Israeli Defense Ministry was reported Wednesday to be close to sewing up a deal to buy up to 25 U.S. F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter aircraft built by Lockheed Martin, which Israeli leaders believe is essential to counter Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. According to the Jerusalem Post, the two sides reached an agreement on several Israeli ... more |
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Jihadists rebuild and eye Israel
Tripoli, Lebanon (UPI) Jun 17, 2009 The reported return of a veteran Palestinian bomb maker to his old stomping grounds in the port city of Tripoli in north Lebanon is ringing alarm bells because there are fears that he will link up with a jihadist group that is reforming after being battered by the Lebanese army two years ago. Officials at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation reported in late May that Hussein al-Umar ... more Israel's eastward march: Arming India 
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jun 17, 2009 The day Osama bin Laden's suicide squads attacked the United States, Maj. Gen. Uzi Dayan, who in 2001 headed Israel's National Security Council, was conducting a "strategic dialogue" in New Delhi with his Indian counterpart, Brajesh Mishra. Dayan's presence in the Indian capital on Sept. 11, 2001, was, of course, pure happenstance. But the events of that fateful day cemented a strategic ... more Sarkozy boosts French arms sale in gulf 
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Jun 15, 2009 French President Nicolas Sarkozy, accompanied by an Airbus full of Cabinet ministers and business tycoons, recently flew to Abu Dhabi to inaugurate France's first permanent military base in the Persian Gulf -- and to hustle some of the big defense contracts coming up in the region. Abu Dhabi is the richest of the seven sheikdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates, and France is a ... more European military carrier delayed 
Berlin (UPI) Jun 15, 2009 France and Germany have decided to further delay the decision whether to build their troubled A400M military transport plane. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said they would make room for another six months of negotiations to agree on the future of the $28 billion project. "We said we'd give ourselves a little delay of six months to continue ... more |
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