F-35B: off probation (click to view full) The $382 billion F-35 Joint Strike fighter program may well be the largest single global defense program in history. This major multinational program is intended to produce an "affordably stealthy" multi-role fighter...
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US And Luxembourg Break Ground On Military Depot Expansion | US To Send More Defense Systems To Middle East | Philippines Launch New Military Command
Americas The US and Luxembourg have conducted a ground-breaking ceremony to expand the Warehouses Service Agency complex in Sanem. The initiative seeks a deployable air base system support and storage facility at the site for the US Department of Defense. The complex...
Boeing Tapped For MK 54 Integration On Poseidon | Biden Asked For $105 billion National Security Package | Italy Increases Military Spending
Americas Boeing won a $26.7 million order, which provides for the design, development, and test of software and ancillary hardware required in support of the retrofit integration of the MK 54 Mod 2 Advanced Lightweight Torpedo on the P-8A aircraft for the Navy. Work...
Serious Dollars for AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)
AEGIS-BMD: CG-70 launches SM-3 (click to view full) The AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense System seamlessly integrates the SPY-1 radar, the MK 41 Vertical Launching System for missiles, the SM-3 Standard missile, and the ship's command and control system, in order to...
Argentina Acquires P-3 From Norway | India Studies Use Of Paragliders By Hamas | Germany Sends Special Units To Cyprus Amid Conflict In Middle East
Americas Argentina has officially signed an agreement to acquire four P-3 aircraft from Norway. The signing ceremony, held on October 17, marks a pivotal moment in Argentina’s efforts to enhance its maritime defense and resource protection. The signing event, attended...
P-3 Orion’s SMIP Program Keeps on Rolling
P-3 Orion, armed - note Sidewinder (click to view full) The P-3 Orion remains the USA's main maritime patrol aircraft, and is also finding use in overland surveillance roles despite the fleet's age. Earlier DID articles have noted the extra effort required to preserve...
NASSCO Tapped For Arleigh Burke Modernization | Czech Republic Might Acquire Embraer | PAF To Acquire Super Hercules
Americas General Dynamics subsidiary NASSCO has been awarded a $15.6-million maintenance and modernization contract for two Arleigh Burke-Class destroyers, USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) and USS James E. Williams (DDG 95). The contract could reach $753.8 million for future...
Adding Arleigh Burkes: H.I.I. Steps Forward for DDG-51 Restart
DDG-110 Construction (click to view full) In April 2009 Bath and Ingalls agreed to the Navy's surface combatant plans, thus heralding a significant restructuring within the American naval shipbuilding community. Under the agreements, the USA would end production at 3...
AAR Tapped For Poseidon Maintenance | 2,000 US Troops Told To Be Ready For Deployment To Support IDF | NIOA Started Boxer CRV Production
Americas AAR Government Services won an $87.4 million modification, which exercises an option to provide P-8A Poseidon aircraft depot scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, depot in-service repair/planner and estimator requirements, technical directive incorporation,...