by [email protected] | Feb 2, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * The USAF is to use a 3-D printed part for the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft. The part, a plastic end cap for seat armrests, is non-essential to keeping the battle management platforms flying, but is seen as an important first step toward...
by [email protected] | Feb 1, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * Rep. March McSally has written to the White House in defense of the A-10 ahead of Obama’s budget rollout this week. The former USAF pilot has been one of the biggest political supporters of keeping the close air support aircraft in service until full...
by [email protected] | Jan 29, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * Rolls-Royce Corp has been awarded two contracts by the DoD for a combined total of $153 million. The first will see the company supply twenty-four engines for Saudi Arabia’s C-130J Super Hercules aircraft in a foreign military sale worth $77 million. The...
by [email protected] | Jan 28, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * Northrop Grumman and Raytheon look set to be awarded sole-source contracts by the USAF for further development of their competing active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars as part of the Northrop Grumman E-8C JSTARS recapitalization effort. Foreign...
by [email protected] | Jan 27, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * Despite recent successful testing of missiles on the
