LM Bags $331.7M FMS for GMLRS | Russia’s MOD Looks to Buy First Mil Mi-38 Helos | US Arms Embargo Lifted from Vietnam

by [email protected] | May 24, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas * Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $331.7 million foreign military sales contract by the US Army. The sale will see the company provide the defense departments of Israel, Singapore, Finland and Jordan with the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS)...

USN Research Lab Develops CASA to Film Intercepts of US Spy Planes | HELMTTs Destroy Laptops with Lasers | Boeing Hopes to Persuade Denmark on Super Hornets

by [email protected] | May 23, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas * The US Naval Research Laboratory “has developed a prototype” Common Airborne Situational Awareness (CASA) camera pod to film Chinese and Russian intercepts of US spy planes. Spy planes under the Pacific Command have been recently involved in a...

US Navy Readying Tactical Cloud by Year End | AH-64 Damaged When Training Exercise Goes Awry | France Blocking US Efforts to Transfer Missile System to NATO

by [email protected] | May 20, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas * The US Navy is to deploy AeroVironment’s Blackwing tube-launched unmanned aircraft system from its manned submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles. The company made the annoucement at this years’ Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition. Based...

V-22 Aerial Tanker Variant on Tap for 2018 | Israel’s Sea-based Iron Dome Intercepts Salvos in Test | Saab Premiers First of Three Gripen E’s

by [email protected] | May 19, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas * The Navy’s V-22 Osprey program has set 2018 for the deployment of the aerial tanker variant of the USMC’s MV-22B. Once the new capability is installed, it will be possible for the air combat element of a Marine Expeditionary Unit to refuel in...

Egypt Cleared for $143M Deal for Missiles & EHCTVs | Germany Pricing Heavy Vertical Lift Copters | Thailand in Talks to Buy Russian Helos

by [email protected] | May 18, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas * The US Navy has disclosed that AIM-9X Block II missiles have a “beyond-visual-range” capability. Announcing the capability was Capt. Jim Stoneman, chief of the US Navy’s Air-to-Air Missiles Program Office at the 2016 Sea-Air-Space Exposition....