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Aging Array of American Aircraft Attracting Attention

The USAF’s aircraft fleet will continue to see its average age rise, even if it gets every aircraft it wants. Many of its planes are now older than their pilots, and in the coming decades many aircraft will pass the 50-year mark. The causes are systemic, and the effects are very serious. This is DID’s Spotlight article, covering some of the measures being taken, and providing in-depth research resources that cover the problem at both a macro level and a front-line level.

Brazil’s Saab Gripen NG Contract Moving Forward | LM Advances EOTS for Coming Year | Czech’s to Spend $104.6M for TITUS from Tatra & Nexter

Americas * Brazil's prosecutor's office has ended its investigation [Portuguese] into possible corruption in the country's procurement process of Saab Gripen NG fighters, finding insufficient evidence of wrongdoing to continue. The investigation centered on possible...

F-35 Speed-up Increases Pressure | BAE Protests NG’s CIRCM Contract | Japanese to Double Intelligence by 2023

Americas * An accelerated F-35 production schedule could stress suppliers, with the program office planning a three-fold increase in the number of Joint Strike Fighters produced each year over the next three years. The pressure on the production line's supply base is...

Aerojet Rocketdyne Bids $2B for United Launch Alliance | Russia Increases SU-30SM Orders from Irkut | Netherlands to Add 14 CH-47F Helis to Fleet

Americas * Aerojet Rocketdyne submitted a bid on Wednesday to buy United Launch Alliance. The Boeing/Lockheed Martin joint venture is competing with SpaceX for US Air Force launch contracts, following the latter's certification in May. The $2 billion bid comes amid...

Boeing-Lockheed Space Launch Merger – Now to be Acquired?

Boeing Delta IV Back in May 2005, DID discussed Boeing & Lockheed's plans to merge their space launch units into a single joint venture company. That effort has been on hold for quite some time now, but the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has just granted anti-trust...

Lockheed Challenges JLTV Decision | Bulgaria Says No to Russia on Syria Transit | Russia to Take Back Sensitive Systems from Mistrals

Americas * Lockheed is protesting the award to its competitor of the massive JLTV program. The GAO said that the decision on the protest would be made before things start to close up in D.C. for Christmas. AM General, the other firm losing to Oshkosh, opted not to...

Pakistan Bloodies Its Indigenous Armed Drone | China Opening Up Unlicensed Defense Research, Production| New U.K. Drone Pilot School Opening

Asia * Pakistan announced that it had used its own indigenously-built armed drone against militants near the Afghan border, marking the first time the air asset - first revealed in March - has been used. It said that three militants were killed in the strike. * China,...

Designs in for Long-Range Bomber | Predators in Latvia | Israel Upgrading F-16s vs S-300 Systems

Americas * With dread, Pentagon watchers are seeing circumstances line up suggesting that a budget breakthrough may not happen, leaving the possibility of a semi-permanent continuing resolution funding mechanism. * The General Accountability Office found that the DoD...

MDA Shrugs and Lowers Goal to 39 BMD Ships | New Russian Hardware Seen Over Syria | Canadians Cut Steel on New Arctic Patrol Ships

Americas * The Missile Defense Agency is lessening its ambitions for the number of ships that will be equipped with ballistic missile defense to 39 from 48. Between the Navy buying fewer, more expensive ships and opting not to staff ships in drydock with BMD-qualified...

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