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Patria is delivering two Helsinki-class missile boats to the Croatian Navy, the company reported. Those boats were used by the Finnish Navy. The boat class was removed from service as […]

China is objecting vociferously to the U.S. Bush administration plan to sell $6.5 billion worth of arms to Taiwan to help the island nation defend itself against attack, according to […]

France’s SAFRAN Group yesterday said it has agreed to acquire the biometrics business of Motorola [MOT] in a deal that would expand its already robust fingerprint matching business in the […]

The pending acquisition of DRS Technologies [DRS] by Italy’s Finmeccanica has received approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), moving the deal one big step […]

By Emelie Rutherford As Iraq rebuilds its army into a lean force, it will seek additional U.S.-brokered arms sales in the next few years, and will focus on buying the […]

The major presidential candidates are welcoming word of a possible Pentagon-brokered $6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan, with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) calling for the deal to include even more […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is making progress in complying with federal security regulations for information security, although component agencies are still not implementing all of the department’s policies, […]

South Korean shipyards are achieving significant production rates, upward of a ship per week, and there are no signs the facilities are planning to slow down, according to Navy Secretary […]

ROME–Italy’s Finmeccanica recently said its Alenia North America subsidiary won a $287 million Air Force contract for 18 G222 tactical transport aircraft bound for the Afghanistan National Army Air Corps […]

French naval defense contractor DCNS recently landed a rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aboard the French navy frigate Montcalm while the vessel was underway in the Mediterranean Sea, DCNS said […]