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  NavWeek – Aegis Locked And Loaded

  Posted by Michael Fabey 2:23 PM on Mar 08, 2013

  Few could claim surprise when Lockheed Martin secured the $100.7 million contract this month to retain its role as the “Aegis Combat System Engineering Agent (CSEA).” ... Read More >>

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  EADS (ie Eurocopter) Bids for Army's JMR

  Posted by Graham Warwick 12:18 PM on Mar 08, 2013

  EADS North America confirms it has submitted a bid to build one of two advanced-rotorcraft technology demonstrators planned under the the US Army's Joint Multi Role (JMR) program -... Read More >>

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  Chinese Attack Helicopter's Secret Russian Roots

  Posted by Guy Norris 8:33 PM on Mar 06, 2013

  Sergei Mikheyev, General Designer of the Kamov Design Bureau, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Hero of the Russian Federation dropped the proverbial bombshell at Heli-... Read More >>

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  F-35 Turbine Blade Crack Raises Durability Questions

  Posted by Amy Butler 1:23 PM on Mar 05, 2013

  A .6 in. crack in a third-stage low pressure turbine (LPT) blade of an F-35A last month was the result of “thermal creep,” says USAF Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, F-35 p... Read More >>

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  Tiger Down

  Posted by Nicholas Fiorenza 11:07 AM on Mar 05, 2013

  A German Tiger combat helicopter on a training flight over the mountains crashed close to Garmisch-Partenkirchen last night at 20:00. Bundeswehr photo The crew was lightly woun... Read More >>

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  3/5 Frago

  Posted by Sean Meade 10:56 AM on Mar 05, 2013

  + Cybersecurity Bubble Bursting for U.S. Contractors + Navy's New Mobile Landing Platform, Montford Point, To Revolutionize Amphibious Warfare + Weapons Cancellations N... Read More >>

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  New X-Plane on the Horizon?

  Posted by Amy Butler 8:51 AM on Mar 05, 2013

  Go to any defense conference, and there is a universal message: Times are tough and the funding outlook is grim for industry. But, there may be hope for the industrial base -- eve... Read More >>

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  MRTT Mali Mission

  Posted by Nicholas Fiorenza 8:43 AM on Mar 05, 2013

  A Luftwaffe Airbus A310 Multi Role Transport Tanker (MRTT) was deployed to Dakar, Senegal, on 2 March to provide aerial refueling to French combat aircraft involved in Operation Se... Read More >>

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  3/4 Frago

  Posted by Sean Meade 10:32 AM on Mar 04, 2013

  + Darpa Wants You to Transcribe, and Instantly Recall, All of Your Conversations + The “Defense Reduction (Dys)Function” + U.S. Navy Sets Budget-Cutting Pla... Read More >>

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  DARPA's New TERN, a Predator on a Frigate

  Posted by Graham Warwick 5:36 PM on Mar 03, 2013

  The US Navy has operated unmanned aircraft from warships since Gyrodyne QH-50 drones carried anti-submarine torpedoes off the flightdecks of destroyers in the 1960s. But they have ... Read More >>

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