Americas Raytheon Missiles and Defense won a $35.7 million deal for the procurement of AEGIS modernization (AMOD) kits for Navy DDG 51 Class destroyers and for the government of Japan under the Foreign Military Sales program. The Navy’s Aegis Modernization program...
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Kitty Hawk Heaviside Aircraft Achieved Airworthiness | Aselsan Delivered SANCAK To Turkish Military | OCCAR To Fund Eurodrone
Americas The MQ-9 in service with the US Air Force has carried out an Automatic Takeoff and Landing Capability (ATLC) test and the drone is now cleared for Agile Combat Employment operations. A specialized launch and recovery crew is no longer required when the MQ-9...
Raytheon/Lockheed Tapped For Javelin Support | Nigeria Gets 1st 6 A-29s | India To Buy F404 Engines For Tejas
Americas Sikorsky Aircraft won a $26.9 million contract modification for UH-60M Foreign Military Sales green aircraft. UH-60 Black Hawk is a multi-mission helicopter developed by Sikorsky that has been operational in the US Army since 1978. Work will take place in...
Army Expands HIMARS Contract | BAE To Support New UK-Qatar Hawk Training Squadron | US Army Fires Patriot Down Under
Americas The Navy awarded 600 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contracts (MACs) to businesses in multiple locations across 29 of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia for future competition of support service requirements to be...
KC-46A Gets ICR | Britain, US Extend Deal For Cooperative Aircraft Carrier Operations | New F-35 FMS
Americas The KC-46A has gotten its first Interim Capability Release (ICR) mission set, the approval to use its Centerline Drogue System. Air Mobility Command commander Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost gave the greenlight on July 9. The decision provides more daily “taskable”...
X-56B UAV Destroyed In Crash | Thyssenkrupp Handed Over Sub To Egypt | Babcock Builds Greek Supply Chain For Hellenic Frigate
Americas Collins Aerospace won a $22.4 million contract for High Fidelity Visual Display Systems required to support the F-35 Joint Simulation Environment. The contractor will deliver, install, and provide training for the visual display systems. Work will be...
Successful Detonation Of Hypersonic Missile | Norway Gets First Poseidon | New Chinooks For Australia
Americas Shipyards could suffer if the US Navy does not order additional Arleigh Burke Class destroyers, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks was told this week. Hicks visited Bath Iron Works in Maine, a General Dynamics subsidiary founded in 1884 whose primary...
AI For Puckboard | MDT Armor Won A Deal For David Urban Vehicles | IAF Gets Akash Vehicles
Americas Huntington Ingalls won a $17.5 million deal to support maintenance and modernization on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) with special incentives to include ship alterations and propulsion plant maintenance during fiscal 2021 planned incremental availability...
India’s Akash Surface-to-Air Test a Success
India’s new surface-to-air missile, the Akash, successfully struck an airborne target towed from a remote control aircraft in late November. The weapon is designed to hit aircraft up to 25 km away with a 55 kg warhead. Reuters reports.