Americas The US Navy tapped Lockheed Martin with a $7 million contract for Combat System Ship Integration and testing on the next generation of Guided Missile Frigate or FFG(X). The work includes integration engineering support and test planning as well as waterfront...
India’s Project 75 SSKs: Too Late to Save the Submarine Force?
Scorpene cutaway (click to view full) India's submarine fleet currently consists of 16 boats: 10 Russian SSK Kilo (Sindhugosh) Class, 4 locally built SSK U209 (Shishumar) Class, a leased nuclear-powered Improved Akula Class SSN from Russia (INS Chakra), and its own...
India’s Nuclear Submarine Projects
SSN Akula Class (click to view full) According to GlobalSecurity.org, India's ATV (advanced technology vessel) program to build a nuclear-powered submarine began in 1974, and became a serious effort in 1985. The Federation of American Scientists' December 1996...
Report: German Patriots Partly Hacked | LCS 6 Finishes Trials | New Border Walls All the Rage in Middle East
Americas * Littoral Combat Ship 6 (USS Jackson) has completed acceptance trials with the US Navy in the Gulf of Mexico. LCS 6 is the third Independence-class to be built by Austal, which shares the construction of the LCS program with Lockheed Martin under a $3.5...
F-35 Program Squeezes Rocks, Saves Some | China: Turkey to Buy its Anti-Air
Americas The Pentagon lowered the forecast procurement cost of the F-35 program by 2 percent today – that's $7.5 billion in savings over a roughly $400 billion program. The fighters are slated now to cost a mere $159.2 million per copy, if the military does indeed...
Rapid Fire 2011-11-03: AFMC Restructured | German Adjustments | Chemical Disposal
* The USAF is restructuring its Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) from 12 centers to 5 is one of the major steps within broader changes in its civilian workforce which should amount to adding "5,900 positions in acquisition, the nuclear enterprise, and intelligence,...
Rapid Fire 2011-02-02: LCM2000 Cancellation
* The Malaysia armed forces is reportedly planning to spend up to MYR 2.2 billion (about $720 million) for 3 multirole support ships, 2 of which would be built locally, according to BMI. * Australia's Department of Defence cancels A$ 40 million contract with Thales...