Canada Selects Airbus C-295 for Search & Rescue | Poland to Spend $14.5B For Mil Mod Campaign | UK Contracts BAE to Build 2 Add’l River Class Vessels

by [email protected] | Dec 9, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas * Airbus has been selected as the winner of the Canadian government’s competition for new search and rescue aircraft. The C-295 won out against offerings from Leonardo’s C-27J and Embraer’s KC-390 by offering the best pricing for the Royal...

Boeing Blusters Over Tweet | US State Dept Clears $668M Stryker Sale to Peru | $619B Defense Bill May Send MANPADS to Syria

by [email protected] | Dec 8, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas * President-elect Donald Trump proved a tweet can be worth a billion dollars, with $1 billion being temporarily wiped off Boeing’s stock market value, after Trump deemed the company’s new Air Force One offering too expensive and called for it to...

ULA Receives $269M Contract Mod for Delta IV | EU & UN Train Somaliland Coastguard | Rheinmetall and Day & Zimmerman Form Joint Venture RDZS

by [email protected] | Dec 7, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas * President-elect Donald Trump has urged for the cancellation of the new Air Force One. Believing that manufacturer Boeing “is trying to do a little number,” Trump took to Twitter saying “Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for...

Sikorsky Gets $93.8M for Work on H-60 Variants | Gen Atom Contracted by UK Gov for New UAVs | India Policy Change to Allow Private Co to Supply Ammo

by [email protected] | Dec 6, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas * Sikorsky has been tapped to provide technical and logistics services for variants of the H-60 helicopter operated by the US Army. Valued at $93.8 million, work carried out by the company includes the provision of engineering services in addition to other...

LM-KAI T-50 Collaboration Begins Flight Ops | Qinetiq Snares $1.26B Contract from UK MoD | HAL’s LCA Deemed Too Heavy; India to Import For Now

by [email protected] | Dec 5, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas * Officials from Lockheed Martin have announced that the T-50A trainer has commenced flight operations in order to test the plane’s capabilities. A joint effort between LM and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), the T-50A is based off the legacy T-50 and...