April last year, the Austal/General Dynamics team, designers and builders of the Independence class Littoral Combat Ship released details of their trimaran-based Multi Mission Combatant offering.

Selex Elsag has launched a Micro Very Small Aperture Terminal, a satcom terminal offering a low-cost, fully integrated, ultra lightweight, high performance, highly tactical capability.

Brazilian subsidiary of Elbit Systems has been awarded an initial production order valued at approximately $25 million to supply 12.7/7.62mm Remote Controlled Weapon Stations to the Brazilian Army.

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The Department of Defence is currently considering the establishment of a Defence and industry Integrated Project Team to develop high-level concept designs for the replacement Collins Class submarine to meet the 2009 White Paper capability.

The Spanish Navy and Army have begun trials aboard the 27,500-tonne LHD SPS Juan Carlos I to evaluate interoperability with two of the main aircraft used by the army's helicopter fleet.

After 36 years the Australian Army is replacing its stock of static-line personnel parachutes with new models and associated training being rolled out to units from early October.

Raytheon has been awarded a US$45.3 million US Navy contract to provide MK 54 lightweight torpedo hardware, test equipment, spares and related engineering and repair services for USN fleet inventory.

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An F-35A test aircraft has completed the first aerial weapons release of an AIM-120 AMRAAM from a conventional takeoff and landing aircraft.

In a recent edition of DWP ADM reported that the US Defense Department was to begin publicly exploring ways to open up select portions of the JSF program to competition.

More than 500 DCNS personnel and guests watched as the third of the 12 FREMM multimission frigates on DCNS's orderbook was floated out of the building dock at the Group's Lorient facility.

Unmanned aerial vehicle combat operations over Afghanistan will begin to be controlled from the UK from "early next month", when a new command centre opens at Royal Air Force Waddington in Lincolnshire.

As the US Navy pushes to open programs up to competition to drive down costs and increase flexibility, the service remains concerned by proprietary data rights that companies are unwilling to relinquish.

The US Navy wants the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB missile to be much more capable than previous variants and is willing to expand the design options to include modifications to existing missile-launching systems and the use of liquid propellants.

ViaSat has introduced a new portable broadband terminal featuring power-on, auto-acquire antenna pointing that greatly simplifies and speeds up deployment.