Americas The upcoming FY2019 will be good year for US aerospace companies. The recently signed National Defense Authorization Act allows for the procurement of 413 aircraft at a cost of $39.5 billion. The US Navy is set to order a total of 119 warplanes. This includes...
Bruised KC-390 prototype returns to sky | Lockheed and MBDA Germany form joint venture for MEADS | Will a ban on palm oil foil Malaysian fighter deal?
Americas * Flight Global has reported that Embraer's first KC-390 prototype has returned to flight testing after an accident during a stall test last October put the transport/refueler out of action for several months. A company statement at the time of the crash said...
US Army to Issue Contracts for HEGM Dev | German MoD Delays Signing on Big $$ MEADS Contracts | US Steps Up THAAD Deployment in SK
Americas * The US Army is planning to issue contracts this year for the development of next-generation laser-guided mortar systems. This new precision high explosive guided mortar (HEGM) will replace the current systems in place, and will eliminate the need to...
LM Gets $743M for 9th Batch F-35 | Germany’s MEADS Cost Almost Double $4.5B Euros Proposed | Japan to Consider Aegis or THAAD in Defense Upgrade
Americas * MQ-8C Fire Scout UAVs will be supplied with Leonardo's 2-panel Osprey AESA radar following the dismissal of a protest by rival bidderTelephonics. Five radars will be delivered to the US Naval Air Systems Command in the first financial quarter of 2017 and...
QF-16s Achieve IOC Milestone | Bell Heli Gets $86.9M FMS to Supply Huey IIs to Kenya & Uganda | MBDA Proposal to Offer MEADS to Germany Under Scrutiny
Americas * A MQ-8B Fire Scout was used to laser designate a moving target for an AGM-114N Hellfire missile fired from an MH-60S for the first time. Conducted on September 14, the test was part of a program to use the drone as a remote designater for the helicopter to...
US Army Seeks to Improve Stryker | Russia Readies for Su-34 Sale to Algeria | Poland in Talks with LM Over MEADS
Americas * The US Army has told the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities that the service is to have its own laser weapon system by 2023. When asked about the length of time the system was to take, Mary J. Miller, deputy...
KC-46s Take Missiles in Tests | WIN-T Gets Full Rate Green Light | Germany Hands Raytheon Defeat, Selects Meads
Americas * NAVAIR has been slamming missiles into the side of its KC-46 tankers as part of Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division survivability testing at the Weapons Survivability Laboratory. The tests used - among other sensors - ten high-speed cameras to capture...
Report: Germany to Select MEADS | Long Range Strike Bomber Decision To Be Quick | Russia Courts Peru for T-55 Upgrades
Americas * The Air Force is reportedly set to award a contract for the next-generation Long Range Strike Bomber "within one to two months". The competition between Northrop Grumman and a Lockheed Martin/Boeing team will lead to a program valued at between $44 and $55...
MEADS Future Anti-Air Missile
MEADS: ground view(click to view full) As the ongoing development of nuclear weapons by unstable rogue regimes continue to make missile defense more of a global issue, Japan's cooperation with the USA has been obvious, including a recently successful joint test of a...
Germany Approves Involvement in MEADS Missile
Despite a round of controversy reported earlier by DID, MEADS International (MI) recently announced that Germany has approved entry into the Design and Development (D&D) phase for the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), designed to replace Patriot systems in the United States and Germany and Nike Hercules systems in Italy. It also meets the requirements of Germany’s “capabilities oriented” air defense concept. …