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Raytheon Co. announced Tuesday that it has received a $116 million U.S. Army contract for engineering services to keep on improving its Patriot Air and Missile Defense System, according to the Boston Business Journal.

LOUGH ERNE, June 18 Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Tuesday that disagreements over the deployment of a US missile shield in Europe still remain, but Moscow and Washington should boost the transparency of actions related to the dispute.

U.S. arms makers see rising foreign demand for fighter jets, missile defense systems and other weapons as countries modernise their forces and U.S. officials, facing tighter budgets, encourage allies to invest more in intelligence gathering and aerial refueling equipment.

Politicians sometimes use word games and bureaucratic trickery to stop initiatives they disagree with.

The missile defense controversy will remain in the Russian-American relationship for a long time, unless the presidents of the two countries manage to find a reasonable compromise at their meeting slated for this September.

Raytheon Company has started delivering a new release of software, Post Deployment Build-7 , to its worldwide Patriot customer base.

The United States said on Saturday it will keep Patriot missiles and F-16 jet fighters in Jordan after joint military exercises end next week while Secretary of State John Kerry said a political solution to the civil war in neighboring Syria may be getting "out of reach."

President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss missile defense, their thorniest bilateral problem, at the G8 summit in Ireland on June 17 and 18. Previous talks between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have floundered over the alliance's refusal to give Moscow legal guarantees that the system ... (more)

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan agreed on a large-scale rearmament of the country's land and naval forces.

The Department of National Defence plans to acquire anti-aircraft guided missiles, which will be positioned in the West Philippine Sea as part of the country's first-ever missile defence system.

India's missile defence system is set to get a big boost as it is developing capability to intercept enemy missiles fired from a distance of up to 5,000km, in effect tackling any possible threat from countries such as China.

Ratcheting up the pressure on President Bashar Assad of Syria, the United States will keep American warplanes and anti-missile batteries in Jordan, officials said Saturday.

June 15 - A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of an upcoming G8 summit in Northern Ireland should reduce the level of anti-Russian attitudes in the U.S. establishment, says Sergei Karaganov, a member of the Russian presidential Human Rights Council.

A number of Alabama projects ranging from missile defense to military construction projects in Decatur and Birmingham are included in the Senate Armed Services Committee's version of the annual defense appropriations bill.

Senator Carl Levin , Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee , recently concluded that there is "no validated military requirement" for a proposed East Coast missile defense site.

There are key differences in the sweeping defense policy bills moving through the Republican-led House and the Democratic-run Senate.

Obama's Monica moment By M K Bhadrakumar The United States may have administered one of the biggest-ever snubs to the Kremlin in the post-Cold War era with the White House announcement on Thursday that it will provide military support to the Syrian rebels.

About 20 members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament gathered outside RAF Feltwell armed with placards and banners as part of the group's No Star Wars tour of the country.

Lt. Col. Joseph Miley's command of the Fort Greely-based 49th Missile Defense Battalion was suspended Tuesday, said Army spokesman Marco Morales at the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense headquarters in Huntsville, Ala.

First Production Order after a Long Development Effort; Customer Indicated Repeated Orders are Expected to be Issued during 2014-2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Micronet Enertec Technologies, Inc. , announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Enertec Systems 2001 Ltd, was awarded a contract valued at Enertec's contract is from a global aerospace ... (more)