Latest and Breaking Military and Defense News and Top Stories - July 4
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The Armed Forces Rally Team have clocked up more than 1000 miles competing in the Scottish Rally and the Goodwood Festival of Speed all within the space of 24 hours. It proved to be a test of their stamina and the durability of their Lan...
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Sacramento CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed its final J-2X test series at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Over a period of three years, Aerojet Rocketdyne teams manufactured, assembled and tested four newl...
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Charleroi, Belgium (UPI) Jun 26, 2013 Thales Alenia Space Belgium has opened a new facility in Belgium for the development of new avionics products and technologies for satellites and space launch vehicles. The plant opened at Leuven Thu...
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Denver (UPI) Jul 1, 2013 The U.S. Navy's net-centric system for intelligence collection and dissemination is to be enhanced by Lockheed Martin under a five-year contract award. Lockheed said its work under the indefinite-delivery/indefin...
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Pascagoula, Miss. (UPI) Jul 2, 2013 Long-lead materials for an eighth U.S. Coast Guard National Security cutter are being procured by Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division. The materials are being purchased under a...
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London (UPI) Jul 2, 2013 A facility for demilitarizing military munitions was inaugurated Wednesday in central France by MBDA for the French Ministry of Defense. The facility - two years in the building - will allow France to comply with...
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Washington (AFP) July 03, 2014 The US military has secretly maintained forces in Somalia since 2007, despite earlier public statements claiming it had no presence in the country until last October, defense officials said Thursday. The Un...
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Adelaide, Australia (UPI) Jul 3, 2013 Saab's Australian subsidiary has opened an Advanced Maritime Systems Center as part of the parent company's naval systems integration program. The center opened this week is located in Adelaide in a ...
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Washington DC (UPI) Jul 03, 2014 From Pakistan on the Arabian Sea to landlocked Afghanistan to Iraq at the heart of the Middle East, to Syria and Gaza on the Mediterranean, the Muslim world is ablaze, fanned by the flames of religious ex...
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Seoul (AFP) July 03, 2014 China and South Korea issued a joint call for the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula at a summit in Seoul Thursday that was seen as a pointed snub of nuclear-armed North Korea by chief ally Beijing. In a j...
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Washington DC (UPI) Jul 03, 2014 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), created in 1949 to contain and deter Soviet aggression, has been the most successful defensive military alliance in history. Through forty years of Cold War,...
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Versailles, France (UPI) Jul 2, 2013 Two major European Defense enterprises are merging their businesses as early as next year through a joint holding company. The merger deal is between Germany's Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Nexter Systems...
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Bethesda, Md. (UPI) Jul 1, 2013 Lockheed Martin has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Zeta Associates, a specialist in systems for information collection, processing, and dissemination. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed ...
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Washington (UPI) Jul 1, 2013 Kuwait has asked the United States for a Foreign Military Sales contract for facilities and construction support for a military hospital. The request, which has received approval from the State Department, wa...
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Baghdad (AFP) July 03, 2014 The leader of Iraq's Kurds set the ball rolling Thursday for a referendum on their long-held dream of independence, another setback for international efforts to unite the country's politicians against a milita...
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Washington (AFP) July 03, 2014 The US military's top officer said Thursday that Iraqi forces had shored up their defenses against Sunni militants but would be hard-pressed to regain territory without outside help. General Martin Dempsey,...
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Military officials say dozens of jets were moved from a base in North Carolina to one in southwest Ohio to ensure they wouldn't be damaged by high winds during Hurricane Arthur.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth, built in England and Scotland, held up as prime example for why Scots should vote 'no' on independence Britain's largest ever warship, a vast aircraft carrier, has been welcomed into the Royal Navy's fleet with a dul...
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The Air Force's F-35A fighter fleet remained grounded for the 11th day Wednesday, following the June 23 fire that damaged one of the jets at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
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The European debut of the Lockheed Martin F-35 joint strike fighter is now in question after the Pentagon grounded the entire fleet late Thursday based on the initial findings of an investigation into a fire that broke out on one of the ...
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Peru's Shipyard Marine Industrial Services (Sima) and the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that enables Peru’s companies to enter the Canadian naval market, according to news reports o...
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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, accompanied by David Cameron and defence secretary Philip Hammond, attend the naming ceremony of Britain's largest military vessel at Rosyth shipyard in Scotland on Friday. The naming of the warship c...
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The military's top officer on Thursday issued a bleak assessment of the crisis in Iraq, saying that nation's armed forces are probably incapable of regaining control of areas captured by Islamic extremists and the U.S.
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Court listings for the Military court centres.
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General Sir David Richards' bid for 100,000-strong force had support from US heavyweights but was shelved as too risky The British military drew up a secret plan two years ago to train a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel force aimed at topplin...
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Joint Service Publication (JSP) 747 on defence information policy.
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Commonwealth Defence Liaison Staffs and Foreign Service Attachés accredited to London.
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Replacing the Cold War-era M9 9mm pistol, the U.S. Army is making strides towards the purchase of a more powerful handgun that can meet the needs of other services as well. Fox News reported that as the lead agent for small arms, the Arm...
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The Royal Navy's newest and largest aircraft carrier will pack a heavyweight military punch, say Admiral Sir George Zambellas, First Sea Lord, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Andrew Pulford, Chief of the Air Staff
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Key Points The UK's first Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier has been formally named in Rosyth Queen Elizabeth will be handed over to the Royal Navy in 2017 The first of the United Kingdom’s two new Queen Elizabeth-class (QEC) ...
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Today’s naming ceremony of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth marks a major milestone in Tata Steel’s 12-year involvement in the project. In that time the company has supplied 40,000 tonnes of steel and developed three ...
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It weighs more than 10,000 African elephants and is longer than the Houses of Parliament. Welcome to the HMS Queen Elizabeth - the largest ship built for the Royal Navy The Queen has officially named the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier...
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History was made today as Her Majesty The Queen officially named the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier.
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AgustaWestland is pleased to announce that the Brazilian Navy’s Naval Aviation has signed a contract for a major midlife upgrade of eight Lynx Mk21A helicopters. The contract, valued in excess of US$160 million (€117 million), includes r...
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HMS Queen Elizabeth is named New RAF Reapers take to the skies Review of women in ground close combat roles
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Good morning! Here are the top headlines around the world right now. 1. Hurricane Arthur makes landfall on the North Carolina coast . The first hurricane of the Atlantic season slammed into the Outer Banks as Category 2 storm on Th...
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Summary Various papers report on today's naming of new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, noting that it is the largest ship the Royal Navy has ever had. | The Daily Mirror reports that Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has told 1%...
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The African troops hoped the latest defector from the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group would have fresh insight into the location of warlord Joseph Kony.
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A top Ukrainian security official says government troops have cleared more than a dozen towns of armed pro-Russia separatists.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth is named today, with a ceremonial smashing of a bottle of whisky rather than traditional Champagne. But why do we sacrifice a bottle of plonk on new-born ships?
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Police in southern California have found the vehicle belonging to missing 19-year-old military wife Erin Corwin and are expanding their search.
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The VA says it has reached out to nearly 140,000 veterans in the past two months to get them off waiting lists and into clinics for medical appointments.
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Officials appealed to the Obama administration to secure the U.S.-Mexico border once and for all as waves of illegal immigrant children overwhelm the system.
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The Navy and Air Force have grounded the entire fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.,The Navy and Air Force have grounded the entire fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters because they don't know the cause of an engine fire that occurred on...
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The Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton arrived in Moray yesterday, 3 July, by Royal Air Force Sea King helicopter, which transported it to a lifeboat just off Buckie Harbour. Winchman Flight Sergeant Mark Lean (pictured) was then lowered t...
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Andrea Shalal, Reuters
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As Admiral Lord West berates Radio 4's Today programme for calling HMS Queen Elizabeth a boat, do you know where to find an angel on board and why distressed sailors cry 'mayday'?
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Today, Friday 4 July Naming of the first of the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth, by Her Majesty The Queen at Rosyth dockyard. HMS Somerset homecoming, Devonport Naval Base. Tomorrow, Saturday 5 July Preston Milita...
