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  More Bundeswehr Cuts?

  Posted by Nicholas Fiorenza 7:12 AM on Apr 30, 2013

  The Bundeswehr is threatened with further cuts, Deutschlandfunk, German public radio, reported over the weekend. Photo: Bundeswehr/Stollberg Speaking to the Bundeswehrverband, ... Read More >>

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  Germans Train Malian Engineers

  Posted by Nicholas Fiorenza 7:19 AM on Apr 29, 2013

  German soldiers began training Malian engineers yesterday. Thirty-five Malian soldiers, who have already completed basic training, are receiving instruction in explosive ordnance d... Read More >>

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  Recoilless Grenade Weapons Station

  Posted by Nicholas Fiorenza 6:45 AM on Apr 29, 2013

  Dynamit Nobel Defence displayed a remote-controlled weapons station (RCWS) equipped with its disposable Recoilless Grenade Weapon (RGW) light-weight anti-armor/anti-structure weapo... Read More >>

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  Bundeswehr Has ROSY Future

  Posted by Nicholas Fiorenza 5:25 AM on Apr 29, 2013

  The Bundeswehr plans to install the Rapid Obscuring SYstem (ROSY) rapid smoke dispenser on up to 500 vehicles or vehicle weapons stations, Rheinmetall announced on the second ... Read More >>

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  Hollande Proposes $474B French Defense Budget 2014-25

  Posted by Amy Svitak 2:14 AM on Apr 29, 2013

  France unveiled a new national defense strategy April 29 that includes just two top-line figures for defense spending over the coming decade: a planned €364 billion ($474 bill... Read More >>

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  Gen. Bogdan's JSF Security Doubts

  Posted by Bill Sweetman 5:57 PM on Apr 26, 2013

  There was an immediate circling of the wagons late last week after Lt Gen Chris Bogdan, Joint Strike Fighter program director, took a shot at his contractors’ security measur... Read More >>

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  NavWeek: AMDR -- Pulse Check

  Posted by Michael Fabey 2:22 PM on Apr 26, 2013

  For years now, the discussion revolving around the U.S. Navy’s vaunted proposed air-and-missile-defense radar (AMDR) – as it related to the Navy’s even-more vaunt... Read More >>

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  The Cost of Operation Serval

  Posted by Amy Svitak 11:18 PM on Apr 25, 2013

  Since the French intervention against terrorist insurgents in Mali began Jan. 11, France has spent €205 million ($267 million) on Operation Serval, including €91 million ... Read More >>

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  France's New Defense Strategy Out Monday

  Posted by Amy Svitak 9:31 PM on Apr 25, 2013

  French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian aboard A400M MSN3 at Avord air base in April. Photo: Amy Svitak Word on the street is French President Francois Hollande will release a... Read More >>

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  Another Installment of ... F-35 Cost Per Flying Hour

  Posted by Amy Butler 11:35 AM on Apr 24, 2013

  The plot thickens on the F-35 cost-per-flying-hour discussion. Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall says the cost-per-flying-hour figure for the F-35A recently provided by the... Read More >>

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