EMALS Components (click to view full) As the US Navy continues to build its new CVN-21 Gerald R. Ford Class carriers, few technologies are as important to their success as the next-generation EMALS (Electro-MAgnetic Launch System) catapult. The question is whether...
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Canada Unveiled OPV | German-Led NATO Exercise | Kawasaki Heavy Industries To develop Japan’a New Coastal Anti-Ship Missile
Americas Lockheed Martin and Airbus have partnered with GE Aerospace to supply engines for a strategic tanker proposal supporting the US Air Force’s KC-135 recapitalization plan. Under the collaboration, GE will provide the team with its CF6-80E1 propulsion system for...
Pratt & Whitney Tapped For F-135 Propulsion For F-35s | LAF Gets UK Patrol Vehicle Parts | Netherlands Procured H225Ms
Americas Pratt and Whitney Military Engines a $2 million deal, which exercises options to procure materials, parts, and components for Lot 17 of the F135 Propulsion system for F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft as well as global spares requirements to...
Textron Demonstrated SEAD/DEAD Mission Capabilities Of Manned-Unmanned System | Morocco Showcased Chinese HJ-9A | DoS Approved MK 41 Sale To Netherlands
Americas Timken Gears & Services won a $119.2 million modification to exercise the options for three Main Reduction Gear shipsets to support DDG-51 class. Work is scheduled to be completed by November 2027. The DDG-51 class is a class of guided missile destroyers...
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...
Boeing Won a Super Hornet Deal | Iran Tested Hypersonic Ballistic Missile | Korea Completed L-SAM Development Trials
Americas Boeing won a §200 million modification, which procures critical long lead material and associated efforts in support of maintaining the full rate production timeline for the congressionally added F/A-18E/F aircraft. Work will be performed in El Segundo,...
Super Hornet Fighter Family MYP-III: Contracts
Breakthrough... (click to view full) The US Navy flies the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet fighters, and has begun operating the EA-18G Growler electronic warfare & strike aircraft. Many of these buys have been managed out of common multi-year procurement (MYP) contracts,...
Argentina Buys 6 Bell Helicopters | Poland Signs Hellfire Missile Deal | GE To Produce F414s in India
Americas Northrop Grumman Systems won a $60.3 million cost reimbursable modification to a previously awarded contract. This modification adds scope to procure long lead components, material, parts, and associated support, in support of maintaining the MQ-4C Triton...
The MQ-4C Triton: Poseidon’s Unmanned Herald
BAMS Operation Concept (click to view full) The world's P-3 Orion fleets have served for a long time, and many are reaching the end of their lifespans. In the USA, and possibly beyond, the new P-8 Poseidon Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft will take up the P-3's role....