Americas Raytheon won a $72.8 million order, which provides non-recurring engineering in support of early identification, development, and qualification of corrections to potential and actual F135 propulsion system operational issues, to include safety and...
UAVs Articles
Boeing Wins $2B Deal For KC-46A | Poland Sends Additional Tanks To Ukraine | Sikorsky Tapped For UH-60M
Americas Blue Force Technologies (BFT) and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have successfully completed a ground test for a novel carbon fiber composite propulsion flow path system for BFT’s Fury uncrewed fighter under the AFRL Bandit program. “On an...
KC-46A Pegasus Aerial Tanker Completes Firsts
KC-135: Old as the hills... (click to view full) DID's FOCUS articles cover major weapons acquisition programs - and no program is more important to the USAF than its aerial tanker fleet renewal. In January 2007, the big question was whether there would be a...
V-22 Osprey: The Multi-Year Buys
In March 2008, the Bell Boeing Joint Project Office in Amarillo, TX received a $10.4 billion modification that converted the previous N00019-07-C-0001 advance acquisition contract to a fixed-price-incentive-fee, multi-year contract. The new contract rose to $10.92...
US Asked Israel To Transfer Its HAWK Missiles To Ukraine | Fincantieri Launched Qatari LPD | Spain Ready To Send Leopards To Ukraine
Americas According to news reports in Israel, the United States had approached Israel to release its stockpile of MIM-23 HAWK air defense missiles and transfer them to Ukraine. But the head of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s political-Military Bureau, Dror Shalom,...
Lockheed Delivered 5,000 Black Hawks To Armed Forces | Israel Requested F-15s From US | RNZAF to retire the P-3K2
Americas Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has delivered its 5,000th Hawk medium-lift helicopter to the US armed forces. The chopper is a variant of the UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter deployed for international military and civilian operations. “For more than 40 years...
TenCate Introduced Its New Body Armour Plate | Jordan To Purchase 12 F-16s | Estonia To Procure New Howitzers
Americas Raytheon won a $21.6 million modification, which adds hours to finalize the design, integration, and to conduct test and evaluation in support of Phase Two for the Maritime Strike Tomahawk (MST) rapid deployment capability. Additionally, this effort provides...
SMRF Not To Be Deployed In Japan | Turkey Plans To Purchase UK Weapons | Poland To Ask Germany For Permission Amid Ukraine-Tank-Debate
Americas The United States will no longer pursue a plan to deploy the US Army’s Strategic Mid-Range Fires (SMRF) System in Japan. The US Indo-Pacific Command had proposed under its Pacific Deterrence Initiative to deploy these intermediate-range missiles to the first...
Oshkosh To Deliver Tactical Vehicle To US Army | IAI Unveiled Point Blank | Thales To Modernize French CN-235
Americas The United States and the Philippines vowed Friday to “invigorate” defense cooperation to address shared security concerns including disputes over the South China Sea. Manila hosted a high-level security dialogue with its top defense ally as part of efforts...