Tuesday's Top 50 Military & Defense News & Stories
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In Germany, the Weser School in Hameln is closing its doors this week as pupils and their families prepare to move to other parts of the country, or back to the UK. Over the last few weeks the pupils have been designing a mosaic, which h...
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Structural testing of the F-35 horizontal tails for all three variants is now complete, proving the tails are structurally sound for up 24,000 hours of flying, the equivalent to three lifetimes of the aircraft. Testing began in 2008 and ...
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F-35 test pilot Pete Kosogorin reveals how our simulation facilities are playing a crucial role integrating the F-35B aircraft with the HMS Queen Elizabeth Class CarrierA dedicated simulation facility at our site in Lancashire is allowin...
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Many scientists believe we are not alone in the universe. It's probable, they say, that life could have arisen on at least some of the billions of planets thought to exist in our galaxy alone -- just as it did here on planet Earth. T...
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​Farnborough, UK - Embraer S.A. announced today, at the 2014 edition of the Farnborough International Airshow, that it has received an order for 50 E175-E2 jets from Trans States Holdings, parent company of Trans States Airl...
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In contract news this week; A contract (UAS/00044), for the Contractor Owned Contractor Operated (COCO) Service Provision of a Maritime Unmanned Air System was awarded to Boeing Defence UK in June 2013 to meet an Urgent Operational Requi...
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The U.K. Royal Navy has formally declared its newly upgraded Merlin Mk2 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopters into service, and is considering adding aircraft to what will become one of the U.K. hardest pressed assets. read more
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The Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday invited military attaches from 18 countries, including from the US and Germany, to assess the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border that has been hit multiple times by Ukrainian artillery.
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The U.K. is claiming a lead ahead of the U.S. in work to integrate its fifth-generation F-35 to be interoperable with other military assets. read more
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HENDERSON, WA - HMAS ANZAC has been undocked from the BAE Systems Henderson Shipyard where it had been undergoing the Anti-Ship Missile Defence (ASMD) upgrade for the last 12 months. The warship is now commencing its final out...
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A spectacular display of fireworks fired from the Eiffel tower illuminated the Parisian sky on Monday as France celebrated Bastille day.
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Engineers at European missile manufacturer MBDA have been studying systems of command and control that would that would give wider access to weapon effects on a future battlefield. read more
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas rejected an Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel moments after Israel's security cabinet accepted the proposal, hoping to end a week of conflict with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip that has kille...
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1. The Israeli government accepted a cease-fire proposed by Egypt following a week of rocket attacks in Gaza that has killed close to 200 Palestinians. The truce calls for "deescalation" on both sides starting Tuesday morning, however, H...
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A ceremony for the beginning of the Russian-Indian naval exercise Indra-2014 was held Tuesday in Vladivostok, a spokesman for Russia’s Eastern Military District has said.
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Cost of rocket fuel for Trident missiles spikes after the US ends the space shuttle programme
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This was one of the "drones" which Israel shot down recently with expensive US made Patriot missile. The aircraft shown in the footage released by Hamas carries four AGMs (Air-to-Ground Missiles) even though it is not easy to say w...
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The £1.1billion Armed Forces package may not be enough to fund more conventional conflicts, says Con Coughlin
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Airworthiness authorities for the Navy and the Air Force approved the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter fleet to resume limited flight, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said.
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Choosing to serve the nation is an honor and a privilege, although it is not without its hardships, as one deployed married couple has found out.
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By David Pugliese The head of the Royal Canadian Navy has taken the rare step of ordering one of its ships to return from an international exercise because of misconduct by its sailors. Vice Admiral Mark Norman issued the message Monday,...
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The Department of Veterans Affairs overstated progress in reducing its massive benefits backlog by improperly scrubbing thousands of the oldest veteran claims from estimates, the department inspector general said Monday.
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Britain has cut defence spending by around 8 percent over the last four years as part of a government plan to reduce a record budget deficit. Spending cuts have included shrinking the size of the armed forces by around one sixth. The new...
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A woman testified Monday that she saw someone punch Jesse Ventura in 2006 at a California bar, contradicting the former Minnesota governor's assertions that the incident described in a slain military sniper's autobiography never happened.
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The Pentagon's research arm is exploring the development of brain implants that might one day reverse memory loss caused by traumatic brain injuries, the signature wound of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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U.S-Japan naval cooperation is deepening, top U.S. and Japanese admirals said Monday as they met on the sidelines of the world's largest maritime exercises.
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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has completed a course of counseling at an Army hospital in Texas and is getting back to regular duty as a soldier, according to Army officials.
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A Utah Army National Guardsman killed a Utah State University student and one other person early Monday at an apartment near the college before fleeing and fatally shooting himself at another home, police said.
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Brazilian firm Embraer is to undertake most of the design work on the two-seater version of the Saab JAS 39 Gripen NG, Saab Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Håkan Buskhe told a press conference at the Farnborough Air Show on 14 July. &...
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The issue that caused a Pratt & Whitney F135 engine to burst into flames during the take-off run of a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) was a 'one-off' incident and not indicative of a general fault in the flee...
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Declaring his nation 'is not Iraq,' one of two contestants in Afghanistan's deadlocked presidential election told The Associated Press on Monday that both he and his rival are committed to lead their war-ravaged nation inclusively in coo...
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Inspectors now believe they know the cause of the fire that damaged an F-35A the morning of June 23, but remain unclear on why the incident occurred.
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First, she made headlines in 2011 by taking Justin Timberlake to the Marine Corps ball. She did it again when she became a professional mixed martial arts fighter upon leaving the Corps in 2012.
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Nebraska veterans now have the option to display their status on driver's licenses and state identification cards.
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The Pentagon is making an $11 billion sale of Apache attack helicopters and Patriot and Javelin air-defense weapons to the Gulf state of Qatar.
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Pentagon leaders are now reviewing the military's initial assessment of Iraq's security forces and it may be some time before decisions are made about what additional assistance the U.S.
