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The talks in Beijing were significant as the first high-level Sino-US defence meeting since Barack Obama was inaugurated as US president
29 June 2009
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UK rules out imminent revision of Defence Industrial Strategy
Lord Drayson's leadership on a revised UK DIS would be "eminently sensible" says a government figure, although there are no plans to publish the long-awaited second report
03 July 2009
IMDS 2009: Russia cuts two frigate programmes
Russia's Grom-class frigate and third Neustrashimy-class frigate are being offered for sale overseas, both having lain, incomplete, in a domestic shipyard for more than a decade
03 July 2009
Australia outlines five-year procurement plan
Australia announces a detailed defence procurement plan for the next five years
02 July 2009
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Royal Navy carrier programme faces 25% cost hike
A leaked memorandum warns of a "fight for survival" of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier programme when the revised cost is published by the MoD in July
02 July 2009
BAE plans to appeal Swedish AWV decision, axes Hägglunds jobs
The loss of the Swedish AWV contract to Patria leads BAE to cut 320 jobs within its Hägglunds division
02 July 2009
MDA director explains KEI and MKV cancellations
Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Director Lieutenant General Patrick J O'Reilly explained to the US Senate Armed Services Committee on 16 June the decision to cancel the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) and the Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) programmes
01 July 2009
Missile Defense Agency revises missile-target plans
Target failures have caused the US Missile Defense Agency to adopt a new approach to acquiring targets for missile-defence trials, the House Armed Services Committee has been told
01 July 2009
DCNS aims to capture quarter of French support services market
DCNS hopes to capture 25 per cent of the EUR600 million (USD843 million) French services market
01 July 2009
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