• Airbus sells Fairchild Controls to Triumph

    US aerospace components and repair services specialist Triumph Group has announced the acquisition of Fairchild Controls Corporation (FCC) from Airbus Defense and Space Incorporated. Terms were not disclosed, although Maryland-based FCC is expected to contribute annual revenues of USD45 million to

  • Al-Shabaab militants kill Ministry of Finance employee in Somalia's Mogadishu

    AN EMPLOYEE at the Ministry of Finance was shot dead by Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen militants outside his residence in the Nasteeho area of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on 18 October, Shabelle Media Network reported. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.

  • BAE Systems Australia wins F-35 work

    BAE Systems Australia has secured a contract from Northrop Grumman to supply the global Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme with components to support the aircraft's communication, navigation, and identification (CNI) system. Announcing the AUD15 million (USD11 million) deal

  • EU's largest political group calls for a European Army

    The European Union's (EU's) most powerful political grouping has called for the creation of a European Army, during a meeting in Madrid. The European People's Party (EPP) stated that EU member states must shore up their flagging common security and defence policy (CSDP) by preparing the ground for

  • F-35 helmet's weight to be reduced to improve safety

    Key Points F-35 helmets will have to be redesigned to lower their weight The weight reduction would diminish the risk of neck injuries during ejection for lightweight pilots The helmet for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter has to be redesigned because its weight increases

  • IED attack kill imam's nephew in Libya's Cyrenaica

    THE nephew of a Salafist imam was killed and the imam was wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced under their vehicle by militants from the Islamic State's Wilayat Barqa, detonated outside the Khalid Bin Walid mosque in the town of Ajdabiya in Libya's Cyrenaica region on 17

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  • Germany's G36 cleared by trio of studies

    The Bundeswehr's G36 service rifle and its manufacturer have been cleared by three investigative reports into the subject, providing a new twist to a complex saga. These findings contrast with a solid year of criticism of the rifle, at the highest levels of the German defence establishment, over

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  • F-35 helmet's weight to be reduced to improve safety

    Key Points F-35 helmets will have to be redesigned to lower their weight The weight reduction would diminish the risk of neck injuries during ejection for lightweight pilots The helmet for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter has to be redesigned because its weight increases

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  • Steel crisis threatens UK defence industry

    Manufacturing giant Tata announced on 20 October that it would be mothballing steel plate mills in Scunthorpe, Dalzell, and Clydebridge, as well as closing one of two coke ovens in Scunthorpe as part of a restructure of its Long Steel Products Europe business. Concerns were raised about the
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