Americas Bell Boeing won a $143.2 million delivery order from the US Navy for the logistics and repair support of MV-22B, CMV-22 (Navy) and CV-22 (Air Force) Osprey components. The Navy is planning to use the CMV-22 variant as a replacement of the Grumman C-2...
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USMC Acquires Two Reaper UAVs | Greece Signs Agreement For Patriot Missile Deployment To Saudi Arabia | USA Adds 500 Troops In Germany
Americas The US Navy announced a successful live-fire exercise of its Rolling Airframe Missile from the littoral combat ship USS Charleston on Monday. The launching of the SeaRAM missiles from the San Diego-based vessel was a part of exercises involving all of the...
AATC Plans KC-135 Modification | BAE To Support F-16s In More Than 25 Countries | KF-21 Prototype Rolled Out
Americas The US Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Test Center (AATC) is planning to modify two KC-135s to equip them with a new communications, sensors and defensive pod. While tentatively called the Gladiator Pod, it is expected to enter flight testing on a few...
Navy Finished G/ATOR Integrated Testing | Elbit Shows Laser Weapon On Hermes 900 | BAE develops Tech To Protect Wideband Receivers
Americas According to the US Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division has completed five weeks of integrated test evaluations of the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) system. The Dahlgren Division, based in Virginia, performed...
First Flight Test For USAF Hypersonic Booster Failed | Israel’s Oron Aircraft Arrived | Greek Pilots Started Rafale Training
Americas The F-15EX variant of the F-15 series of US Air Force fighter planes, was renamed the Eagle II in a ceremony on Wednesday at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Lt. Gen. Duke Richardson announced the official designation in a rollout of the plane, which will...
XQ-58A Opens Weapons Bay Door In-Flight | UK, Qatar Expand Defense Partnership | BAE Systems Wins CMWS Contract
Americas Universal Propulsion Company won a $10.9 million contract for the manufacture of up to 5,000 cartridge initiators and thrusters used in V-22 and CV-22 aircraft. This contract includes a five-year base period with no options. The V-22 Osprey is a...
Raytheon Won An SDB II Deal | UK Acquires Second Operating Location Reaper | MHI To Take Over Mitsui E&S’s Shipbuilding Business
Americas Raytheon won a $79.4 million deal for Small Diameter Bomb Increment II (SDB II) lot integration and test. This contract effort will deliver all-up round (AUR) test vehicles, perform AUR-level assembly, checkout, testing and systems integration testing; and...
Second CMV-22B Unit For US Navy | Details On Eurofighter Typhoon Offering To Finland | RMAF Team To Visit India For Evaluation Of Tejas
Americas The US Navy will establish its second CMV-22B unit and the first squadron for the East Coast, at NAS North Island this fall. The squadron will eventually relocate Naval Station Norfolk in 2023. So far, 18 C-2A pilots have completed their transition to the...
GE To Provide T-64 Engine Cores For CH-53E | Dutch Frigate Joins UK Carrier Strike Group | South Korea Buys 36 Attack Helicopters
Americas Northrop Grumman Systems won a $195 million contract modification to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive (firm-target) contract (N0001918C1037). This modification exercises options to provide support services to include non-recurring engineering,...