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Trump to debut new Air Force One on trip to Theodore Roosevelt museum dedication
President Donald Trump travels to North Dakota on Wednesday to dedicate a museum honoring Theodore Roosevelt, invoking the Republican president's legacy as he promotes a message ...
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Defense startups raid auto and fracking sectors for parts to speed weapons output
Defense tech startups are repurposing automotive chips and pipes used in fracking -- while copying production methods from drugmakers -- in an effort to deliver weapons to the Pent...
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Dassault confirms fresh rift with Airbus over Eurodrone
Dassault Aviation's CEO said on Wednesday that Airbus had tried to kick it out of the multinational Eurodrone project, confirming a separate rift between the planemakers in addit...
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France's Dassault open to cooperation after fighter programme collapse
French planemaker Dassault Aviation is open to cooperation after the collapse of a Franco-German-Spanish fighter programme, its CEO said on Wednesday, while leaving open the prospe...
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Expected next UK PM Burnham faces defence funding gap
Andy Burnham will have to find an additional £4.7 billion ($6.2 billion) to close a defence funding gap, either through deeper spending cuts or higher taxes, if, as expected, he ...
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Russia approved secret China military training at top level, sources say
China's covert military training of Russian forces last year was personally approved by President Vladimir Putin's defence minister and directly involved at least four Russian and...
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Boeing says IT outage affected computer systems, applications
Boeing said on Tuesday that an unplanned IT outage affected some of its computer systems and applications.
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Saab signs $2.54 billion Gripen fighter jet deal with Ukraine
Swedish defence equipment maker Saab signed a contract on Tuesday to deliver 16 Gripen E fighter aircraft to Ukraine in a deal worth about 24.6 billion Swedish crowns ($2.54 bill...
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Next NATO summit in Albania in doubt amid US reluctance and low defence spending
As NATO leaders prepare for a summit in Turkey next week, plans for an alliance summit in Albania next year have been thrown into doubt due to resistance from the Trump administr...
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Kongsberg Gruppen signs $400 million order from Kuwait through Raytheon, US FMS
Kongsberg Gruppen will provide its defense system to Kuwait in a deal with Raytheon under the U.S. Foreign Military Sales programme, the Norwegian technology company said on Tu...
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Rheinmetall gets Ukraine order for shells, propellant charges
German defence company Rheinmetall won a contract worth in the high double-digit millions of euros from Ukraine for artillery shells and propellant charges, the company said on...
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Romania detonates Russian drone fragments found near Ukraine border
Romania's defence ministry said on Tuesday it safely detonated drone fragments found in the southeastern village of Rachelu, near the border with Ukraine, part of debris linked t...
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Ukraine hits Russia's Dubna satellite site for second time, Zelenskiy says
Ukraine's military struck Russia's Dubna satellite communications centre in the Moscow region on Tuesday for the second time, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, in a widening ca...
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What's in Britain's Defence Investment Plan?
Britain will unveil its long-delayed Defence Investment Plan on Tuesday, setting out how it intends to spend a growing military budget in the coming years as it prepares for poss...
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Poland inks order for three submarines from Sweden's Saab for $4.8 billion
Sweden's Saab said on Monday it had signed a 47 billion crown ($4.83 billion) contract with Poland for three A26-type submarines.
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Europe rethinks how it fights war as Russian threat looms
European allies need to overhaul their war-fighting capabilities for a new era of combat, senior military officials from the region said, while warning of the potential threat Russ...
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European Investment Bank commits €3 billion to Airbus
The European Investment Bank is committing €3 billion ($3.42 billion) to planemaker Airbus , which the EIB said was aimed at strengthening Europe's industrial base in the face of ...
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Ukraine hits defence plant in Russia's Volgograd region, Zelenskiy says
Ukrainian-made Flamingo missiles hit a plant producing artillery systems and components for missile launch systems in Russia's Volgograd region overnight, President Volodymyr Zele...
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