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Archives by date > 2015 > March > 17th

GA Sells Gray Eagle UAVs, Service to Army at $7 Million a Pop | KAI Signs Airbus for Delivery of Previously Won Helicopter Tender | UK Puma MK2s in Afghanistan

Mar 17, 2015 03:27 UTC

Americas

  • The Army awarded General Atomics a contract for 19 Gray Eagle UAVs, as part of a $132m contract which also included SATCOM terminals and support.

  • The Babcock & Wilcox Company received contract work totalling $169m for naval reactor fuel and materials, with B&W having restructured their government operations last year.

  • Defense hawks and fiscal hardballers continue to clash over defense spending.

Europe

  • Airbus Helicopters and Korean Aerospace Industries penned a partnership deal to produce new civil and armed helicopters for South Korea. The two parties won a significant helicopter program contract in 2005. KAI beat Korean Air in July 2014 for the role of lead designer of the helicopters. The development budget was expected to be $884 million.

  • In another major win for the Airbus Group, the Airbus Defence and Space company won a contract to build three SIGINT satellites for the French military.

  • The Royal Air Force saw the first deployment of new Puma Mk2 helicopters to Afghanistan, three weeks after achieving Initial Operating Capability.

Asia

  • Malaysia received the first of four Airbus A400 transport aircraft, with this being the first export customer for the model.

  • China became the world’s third-largest arms exporter, according to figures published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. This amounted to a 143% increase in sales over the last five years.

Today’s Video

  • The aforementioned Puma conducts low-level flying…

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