MILPLEX

The Military Industrial Complex

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Indian military chiefs before Parliament
Apr 10, 2012 (UPI)
India's parliamentary Defense standing committee is to question the heads of India's three military branches. The committee's concerns arise from comments by ou...
Canada ministry barred from procuring arms
Apr 09, 2012 (UPI)
Canada's defense ministry was stripped of authority to procure defense equipment in a deepening row over the country's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter acquisition pro...
U.S. helping veterans, families find jobs
Apr 06, 2012 (UPI)
U.S. military spouses have more hope for jobs near bases, first lady Michelle Obama said this week when she announced a Joining Forces initiative to work with 1...
Russian arms smuggler gets 25 years in US prison
Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)
A US judge on Thursday sentenced Russian "merchant of death" arms smuggler Viktor Bout to 25 years in prison for conspiring to sell a massive arsenal to anti-Am...
India's BHEL seeks more defense work
Apr 05, 2012 (UPI)
India's state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. seeks more defense contracts. "We see big business emerging in the defense sector after the announcement of th...
Netherlands' F-35 rolls off assembly line
Apr 05, 2012 (UPI)
The first F-35 Lightning II for the Netherlands rolled off the Lockheed Martin production line in Texas this week, a milestone in a program in turbulence. In Ca...
Canadian watchdog slams F-35 program
Apr 04, 2012 (UPI)
Canadian Auditor General Michael Ferguson says the conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been misleading Parliament about the soaring cos...
First US Marines arrive in Australia
Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)
The first batch of 2,500 US Marines to be deployed in Australia began work Wednesday as Washington bolsters its presence in the strategically vital Asia-Pacific...
'U.S. aid to Israel no longer sacred'
Apr 02, 2012 (UPI)
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has warned Israelis his government needs higher taxes to help pay for anti-missile defense, though he's no doubt count...
Brazil expands role in African arms market
Apr 02, 2012 (UPI)
Brazilian manufacturer Embraer is having more success in Africa than in the United States with its winning light aircraft Super Tucano, which is challenging riv...
French firms focus on India
Mar 30, 2012 (UPI)
India's defense and aerospace needs and manufacturing capabilities are attracting the interest of European companies seeking to plumb its potential. Naval defen...
Europe looks into Goodrich-UTC merger
Mar 28, 2012 (UPI)
The impending merger of two U.S. companies that produce aviation equipment has raised eyebrows in Europe over competition. The European Commission, a major enti...
Italian giant Finmeccanica posts 2.3 bn euro loss for 2011
Mar 27, 2012 (AFP)
Italian aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica on Tuesday posted a 2.3 billion euro ($3.1 billion) net loss for 2011 saying it had been an "extraordinarily di...
Brazil's Rousseff to weigh French jet buy in India
Mar 26, 2012 (AFP)
President Dilma Rousseff plans to use her New Delhi visit later this week to sound out Indian leaders on the French Rafale fighter jet, which she is considering...
Military Analytics Expert Sees Tens of Billions in Supply Chain Efficiencies
Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)
The Defense Department, faced with cuts of what Secretary Leon Panetta said could be $487 billion over the next ten years, can find tens of billions of dollars ...
Europe's armed forces team up on refuelling aircraft
Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)
European defence ministers facing shrinking budgets agreed Thursday to join forces to get more air-to-air refuelling planes, deploy extra field hospitals and ex...
Swedish prosecutor probes Saudi arms deal
Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)
A prosecutor in Sweden has opened a preliminary inquiry into a controversial defence deal to help Saudi Arabia build an arms factory, defence officials said Thu...
Dassault says profit rises 10%, confident on fighter sales
Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)
France's Dassault Aviation posted on Thursday a 10-percent rise in net profit to 407 million euros ($536 million) and expressed confidence about foreign sales o...
Delhi boosts military spending 17 percent
Mar 22, 2012 (UPI)
India's defense budget took a 17 percent jump to around $40 billion for 2012-13, partly because of major acquisition plans. "This allocation is based on present...
Russian arms dealer sentencing delayed again
Mar 21, 2012 (AFP)
International arms smuggler Viktor Bout's sentencing was delayed Wednesday by a US judge for a second time, court papers showed. Bout, convicted in November in ...
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