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CHICAGO, the USA and PARIS, France (BulgarianMilitary.com) – On 13th February 2019 Boeing and Safran announced its 50-50 joint venture named Initium Aerospace established to design, build and service Auxiliary Power Units (APUs), learned…

PARIS, France (BulgarianMilitary.com) — The first of three identical military imaging satellites has been launched by France. It is expected all three satellites to reach full operational capability at the end of 2021, when they will…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (BulgarianMilitary.com) – The Bulgarian Navy project proposal for developing deployable modular underwater intervention capability package (DIVEPACK project) is among the 17 new projects under the permanent structured…

PARIS, France (BulgarianMilitary.com) – The historical partner of armies, Arquus, announced on 15th October 2018 that the company has delivered its first two VT4 light tactical vehicles to the 12th Régiment de Cuirassiers (an armoured…

OBERNDORF AM NECKAR, Germany (BulgarianMilitary.com), 26 July 2018, Editor: Galina Zdravkova, Photo credit: Aimpoint AB Heckler & Koch France SAS announced on 19th July 2018 that the company together with its partner Aimpoint AB has…

Paris (FRANCE), June 19, 2018, Author: Bm team, Photo: Hensoldt The market leader in civilian and military sensor solutions the company Hensoldt, which is headquartered in Munich, announced last week, on 13th June 2018, that France will…

SAINT-PETERSBURG (Russia), May 30, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova, Photo: wikipedia The engine manufacturers Safran Aircraft Engines of France and UEC-Saturn of Russia have signed a framework agreement for upgrading the Beriev Be-200…

PARIS (France), May 10, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo: Thales Thales announced that they have started the production of the first Sea Fire digital radar for the French Navy’s five FTI future medium-size frigates programme,…

PARIS (France), May 8, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo: Charly Triballeu/AFP via Getty Images France will acquire a fifth Barracuda-class nuclear attack submarine. This was confirmed by the Ministry of the Armed Forces of…

PARIS (France), May 4, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo: ONERA The French national aerospace research center, ONERA (Office National d’Etudes et Recherches Aérospatiales), plans to close down two of its sites under a broad…

PARIS (France), April 24, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo: Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images Dassault Aviation looks for new partnership options in India, so for that purpose and within a 4-day business tour last week, it…

LONDON (the United Kingdom), April 10, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo: EUNAVFOR On 27th April, the defence ministers of Germany and France will sign a letter of intent that covers a program for joint development of a maritime…

PARIS (France), April 3, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo: © Airbus Helicopters The newly acquired twenty-eight NH90 helicopters of Qatar will be equipped with RTM322 engines, said Safran on March 28. Safran Helicopter…

PARIS (France), March 30, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo: Dassault Qatar down paid for twelve more Dassault Rafale jet fighters, reported Defense News. “The exercise of the option for the purchase of 12 additional Rafale…

SEVILLE (Spain), March 26, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo by Africandefence.net On the 22nd March Airbus Defence and Space SAS announced their latest delivery of two A400Ms to two different European countries in one day –…

PARIS (France), March 21, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo by Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images The first suppliers under the €3.8 billion FTI (Frégates de taille intermédiaire; in English: Frigates of intermediate size)…