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Have America's generals lost their way?
Nov 13, 2012 (AFP)
The sex scandal that punctured the image of America's most admired general, David Petraeus, is just the latest in a litany of cases of misconduct plaguing the U...
Canada to help Philippine defense revamp
Nov 12, 2012 (UPI)
Canada will help the Philippines modernize its obsolete defense structure as part of a deal that includes Ottawa guarantees for Manila's purchases of Canadian m...
Iraq to renegotiate Russia arms deal: spokesman
Nov 12, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq will renegotiate a massive weapons deal with Russia, a spokesman said on Monday, after Baghdad cancelled a $4.2 billion agreement that would have made Mosc...
Iraq: Dumping Russia arms deal may be ploy
Nov 12, 2012 (UPI)
Confusion surrounds Iraq's weekend announcement that it's scrapping a $4.2 billion Russian arms contract but the feeling is it may be a ploy by Prime Minister N...
US Congress to grill spy chiefs over Petraeus probe
Nov 12, 2012 (AFP)
Fresh reports piled pressure on Monday on FBI and CIA officials to explain the circumstances and timing of an investigation that ended the storied career of spy...
Cameron defends Gulf trip
Nov 12, 2012 (AFP)
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday defended his attempts to sell Typhoon jets during a visit last week to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and...
Broadwell: Petraeus' biographer... and his undoing
Nov 11, 2012 (AFP)
Smart, stylish, self-assured: Paula Broadwell, the woman linked to the dramatic downfall of CIA chief David Petraeus, appeared to have it all. The high school h...
Algeria eyes 1,200 armoured vehicles from Germany: report
Nov 11, 2012 (AFP)
A subsidiary of Germany's Rheinmetall, a specialist maker of automotive parts and defence equipment, intends to produce up to 1,200 Fuch-type armoured vehicles ...
Canada, Philippines ink defence procurement deal
Nov 10, 2012 (AFP)
Canada and the Philippines signed a deal Saturday to help Manila buy military equipment to defend its territory, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Fili...
Emirates boost U.K. arms drive -- sort of
Nov 09, 2012 (UPI)
British Prime Minister David Cameron's frantic drive to sell BAE Systems' Eurofighter Typhoon jet to London's peeved Persian Gulf allies got a boost of sorts th...
EADS Reports Robust Nine-Month Results 2012
Nov 09, 2012 (SPX)
Leiden, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 09, 2012 EADS has achieved robust financial results in the first nine-months of 2012. Order intake(5) in the first nine months rea...
US plans $6.7 billion aircraft deal with Saudi
Nov 09, 2012 (AFP)
The United States plans a $6.7 billion sale of 20 heavy cargo aircraft and five refueling planes to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon announced Friday, in a deal to be...
Lockheed Martin and IERUS Technologies Partner Under DoD Mentor-Protege Program
Nov 08, 2012 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin and IERUS Technologies have announced that they have signed a three-year agreement under the Department of Defense (DoD) Mentor-Protege Program....
U.K.'s BAE pins sales hopes on grumpy gulf
Nov 06, 2012 (UPI)
BAE Systems, Britain's biggest defense company, has a lot riding on British Prime Minister David Cameron's tour of longtime allies in the Persian Gulf to drum u...
Putin fires defence minister in corruption scandal
Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday fired his defence minister over a corruption scandal, the most dramatic change to the government since he returned for ...
Cameron in Saudi as Britain secures defence deal
Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)
British Prime Minister David Cameron met King Abdullah and top Saudi officials in Jeddah Tuesday after a two-day visit to the UAE, where he secured a defence pa...
British PM in gulf to boost arms sales
Nov 05, 2012 (UPI)
British Prime Minister David Cameron is in the Persian Gulf seeking to mollify Arab leaders stung by recent British criticism and to boost arms sales, including...
Russia's Kalashnikov asks Putin to save famed factory
Oct 30, 2012 (AFP)
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian who designed the AK-47 assault rifle, on Tuesday called on President Vladimir Putin to halt the decline at the legendary factor...
Russian defence ministry firm searched in fraud case
Oct 25, 2012 (AFP)
Russian investigators on Thursday searched the offices of a defence ministry holding company, in a highly unusual move after opening a criminal probe into a sus...
Panetta asks Congress to act on US defense budget
Oct 25, 2012 (AFP)
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday demanded Congress take action after November elections to ensure stable funding for the US military and to break a pa...
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