Aerospace and Defense Sector

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Germany Airbus A400M

AP News 4 hours ago

The fourth A400M fuselage is being loaded on board an Airbus Beluga plane at the Airbus manufacturing site in Bremen, northern Germany, on Friday, March 12, 2010. The fuselage of the novel military airlifter will be delivered to the manufacturing site in ...

Recession hurting cruise ship builders

AP Features 4 hours ago

Ship builders fear downsizing, or worse, if cruise companies don't order more vessels The cruise industry is rebounding, but not for the companies who build the increasingly elaborate ships. Executives from the major European shipyards say they're not getting enough orders to ...

Daimler to keep stake in EADS

AP News 4 hours ago

Germany's Daimler says it will continue current EADS investment arrangement Germany's Daimler AG said Friday it doesn't plan to exercise an option to sell its sizable stake in aerospace and defense contractor EADS NV, the Franco-German company. Daimler, based in Stuttgart, is ...

US may extend tanker deadline to allow EADS bid

AFP Global Edition 17 hours ago

The Pentagon on Thursday said it might extend a deadline for bids for a new aerial refueling tanker after Airbus parent EADS signalled it could return to the competition. After having been notified by EADS of its possible interest, the Defense Department ...

EADS CEO looks to expand in US

AP News yesterday

EADS plans a 'medium-sized' acquisition in the US with view to more defense contracts The CEO of European plane maker EADS said Thursday that his company is looking for a "medium-sized" acquisition in the U.S. following a failed bid for a $35 ...

France, Germany unhappy over U.S. tanker deal

Reuters US Online Report Politics News 2 days ago

PARIS (Reuters) - The leaders of France and Germany said they would consult their EU partners over concerns that protectionism is at play in a big U.S. military tanker deal that looks set to go to Boeing. U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman ...

After tanker flop, Airbus pushes transporter in US

AP News 4 days ago

Airbus eyes US market for A400M after bid for Air Force refueling tanker turns up empty Unbowed in its push into the lucrative U.S. defense market, Airbus said Monday it is aiming to sell about 210 of its much delayed A400M military ...

EADS has received no word from U.S. on tanker

Reuters US Online Report Business News 4 days ago

PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus parent EADS <EAD.PA> has received no word of any changes to a contest to supply aerial refueling tankers to the United States, the head of Airbus Military said on Monday. A source familiar with Pentagon thinking said on ...

General Dynamics to win British army contract: FT

AFP Global Edition 5 days ago

General Dynamics is the winner over BAE Systems in the race to build a new generation of armoured reconnaissance vehicles for the British army, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The contract for Scout vehicles is worth more than one billion pounds ...

General Dynamics 'to win army vehicle contract'

AFP European Edition 5 days ago

General Dynamics is the winner over BAE Systems in the race to build a new generation of armoured reconnaissance vehicles for the British army, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The contract for Scout vehicles is worth more than one billion pounds, ...

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