
Saab adds optronic sensors to frigate fire control directors
Linkoping, Sweden (UPI) May 10, 2016 - Optronic sensors are being added to fire control directors aboard Canadian Navy Halifax-class Frigates by Saab of Sweden.
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Linkoping, Sweden (UPI) May 10, 2016 - Optronic sensors are being added to fire control directors aboard Canadian Navy Halifax-class Frigates by Saab of Sweden.
May 10, 2016

Washington (AFP) May 10, 2016 - The US Marine Corps is assigning two women to frontline infantry roles, a first for the armed service under new Pentagon rules opening all combat jobs to women.
May 10, 2016

Washington (UPI) May 10, 2016 - The U.S. Army announced the modification of an existing contract Friday that will see General Dynamics Land Systems receive roughly $329 million for a 30mm cannon upgrade for the branch's Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle.
May 10, 2016

Moscow (Sputnik) May 10, 2016 - US Navy officials have expressed concern with Russia's newest submarines, including the Yasen class, but these comments serve to boost defense spending, analyst Mikhail Lukanin told Radio Sputnik, e
May 10, 2016

Beijing (AFP) May 10, 2016 - The US on Tuesday sailed a warship close to a disputed South China Sea reef Beijing has built up into an artificial island, officials said, prompting China to express dissatisfaction and opposition.
May 10, 2016

Kuwait City (AFP) May 10, 2016 - Yemen's government and Iran-backed rebels agreed Tuesday to free half of the prisoners and detainees held by both sides, in the first breakthrough in peace talks that began last month.
May 10, 2016

Geneva (AFP) May 10, 2016 - The UN rights chief decried Tuesday a range of abuses allegedly committed by the Turkish military, including shooting unarmed civilians and allowing more than 100 people to burn to death.
May 10, 2016

Seoul (AFP) May 10, 2016 - Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a message to North Korea's Kim Jong-Un, congratulating him on his election as ruling party chairman at a congress at which Beijing - Pyongyang's closest ally - was notably absent.
May 10, 2016

San Diego (UPI) May 10, 2016 - Cubic Global Defense has joined an L-3 Communications team to conduct research and evaluation of warfighter readiness and training.
May 10, 2016

Strasbourg, France (AFP) May 10, 2016 - The EU on Wednesday said granting market economy status for China at the World Trade Organization was untenable due to the loss of jobs it would cost Europe in key industries such as steel.
May 10, 2016

London (AFP) May 10, 2016 - Britain leaving the EU would damage Western security and dangerously weaken Europe, five ex-NATO chiefs and a host of former US secretaries of state and defence warned on Tuesday.
May 10, 2016

Seoul (AFP) May 10, 2016 - North Korea's former military chief of staff who was reported executed earlier this year is apparently alive and well after being named Tuesday in a number of senior ruling party posts.
May 10, 2016

Washington (AFP) May 10, 2016 - A former US Marine who was accused by Iran of spying and held for 4.5 years is suing Tehran over the prolonged and continuous physical abuse he endured while detained.
May 10, 2016

Berlin (AFP) May 10, 2016 - Germany is raising the number of its troops for the first time since 1990, ending a quarter of a century of successive cuts in the army since the end of the Cold War.
May 10, 2016

Moscow (Sputnik) May 10, 2016 - The 2005 amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) makes it legally binding for the states to establish, implement and maintain an appropriate physical prote
May 10, 2016

Tehran (AFP) May 10, 2016 - Iran's army is now equipped with a Russian air defence system after a long and controversial delivery process, Defence Minister General Hossein Dehghan was quoted as saying Tuesday.
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