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USAF buys two Thales Deployable ILS test units

Posted on July 22, 2015July 22, 2015 by alert5

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Thales Defense & Security Inc. with a $18.4 million contract for two Deployable Instrument Landing System (ILS) Production Representative test units.

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“Low-rate production” contract for KC-46 to be delayed for at least eight months

Posted on July 22, 2015 by alert5

Beset by development problems with its new aerial tanker, Boeing will likely have to wait till April next year to get the “low-rate production” contract for the KC-46A.

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India’s 36 Rafales will have same configuration as agreed under MMRCA

Posted on July 22, 2015 by alert5

India’s Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar wrote in a reply to the upper house of Parliament that negotiations with Dassault for 36 Rafale fighters have started and the jets will be configured in the same manner as agreed under the earlier MMRCA project.

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