Americas KC-46A, #17-46034, was recently painted with a tail flash to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the city of Portsmouth and the 75th anniversary of the United States Air Force. It was flown to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to be painted at...
Hamilton Sundstrand Wins Deal For Osprey Repair | Kronstadt Sign Drone Export Deals | Kazakhstan Gets A400Ms
Americas Hamilton Sundstrand won a $60 million requirements contract for the repair of the constant frequency generator used on the V-22 aircraft in support of the weapon replaceable assemblies and shop replaceable assemblies programs. The V-22 Osprey is a...
Honeywell Contracted For CH-47 T55 Engines | Belgium, Luxembourg Receive Third A400M | Indian Navy To Receive MH-60R In June
Americas Honeywell International won a contract worth $476.1 million for the procurement of CH-47 aircraft T55 engines, CH-47 aircraft T55 engine electronic control units, and CH-47 aircraft T55 engine installation kits. The Honeywell T55 is a Family of military...
NG Tapped For Repair Services On Global Hawk | Belgium Receives First A400M | India Will Get 3 More Rafales
Americas Northrop Grumman Aerospace won a $53.7 million deal for the RQ-4B Global Hawk. The contract provides for repair services for “common items” for both the RQ-4 GH and MQ-4C Triton. It will support reparable national stock numbers (NSNs) which encompass the air...
Airbus’ A400M Aerial Transport: Delays, Development, and Deployment
A400M rollout, Seville (click to view full) Airbus' A400M is a EUR 20+ billion program that aims to repeat Airbus' civilian successes in the full size military transport market. A series of smart design decisions were made around capacity (35-37 tonnes/ 38-40 US tons,...
Boeing Tests Next Generation Jammer On Growler | Germany And Hungary Create A400M Multinational Unit | Russian Su-30SM Crashed
Americas Boeing won a $75.1 million contract modification, which exercises options to provide aircraft inspections, modifications and repairs as well as inner wing panel (IWP) modifications and repairs for the F/A-18 E/F and EA-18G series aircraft. These efforts...
Lockheed Martin Tapped For THAAD Production | Red Arrows Cancel Oversea Training | Spain Uses A400M To Deliver Covid-19 Face Masks
Americas Lockheed Martin won a $832.8 million contract modification to exercise an option for the production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors and associated one-shot devices to support the US government and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
BAE Systems To Develop New Cyber Tools For DARPA | Burkina Faso Orders C295W | France’s 16th A400M Arrived
Americas The US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency awarded BAE Systems to develop new cyber tools designed to help prevent vulnerabilities in electronic files that can lead to cyberattacks. The development ist part of the DARPA's Safe Documents (SafeDocs)...
Towed arrays for US subs | Holster your weapon! | Luftwaffe’s A400M now with MEDEVAC capability
Americas * L-3 Chesapeake Sciences Corp. is being tapped to provide the Navy’s submarine fleet with passive sonar equipment. The awarded contract modification has a value of $27.5 million and provides for the production of TB-29X towed arrays. The TB-29X is a thin...
Is India serious about the F-35? | Airbus announces A400 hit amid better than expected profits | Pentagon orders initial production for King Stallions
Americas * The Pentagon awarded Tuesday, February 13, a $126.5 million US Navy contract modification to Sikorsky for initial production of CH-53K King Stallion helicopters. Under the terms of the deal, the Lockheed Martin subsidiary will secure "long lead items in...