Americas
All Clear Repair Services won a $15 million firm-fixed-price contract for UH-60 Black Hawk maintenance and overhaul. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of May 30, 2029. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.
General Atomics has completed durability testing on its new 200-horsepower heavy fuel engine, which offers a maintenance-free operational period of over 100 days. The Heavy Fuel Engine (HFE) 2.0’s full operational period was simulated during the final test, featuring the highest flight loads possible. It included “conditions simulating 1,250 full power take-offs and climbs to high-cruising altitude, and over 200 hours of cruise in worst-case generator loading conditions,” General Atomics explained.
Middle East & Africa
France authorities have banned Israeli defense firms from exhibiting at a trade show next month near Paris, organisers said on Friday. “By decision of the government authorities, there will be no stand for the Israeli defence industry at the Eurosatory 2024 fair,” organisers Coges Events said. Neither Coges nor the defense ministry provided an explanation. Seventy-four Israeli firms had been set to be represented at the event from June 17 to 21 at fairgrounds close to Paris’ main international airport, with Coges previously saying around 10 of them were to exhibit weapons.
Europe
Airbus Helicopters’ Multi-Role Frigate Helicopter Sea Tiger has achieved a significant milestone with the successful completion of an eight-week mission system test campaign conducted in Marignane from February to April 2024. This campaign focused on evaluating the Sea Tiger’s anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities, a crucial aspect for its role with the German Navy. Key areas of assessment included the Thales FLASH SONICS dipping sonar, compatibility with active and passive acoustic buoys, and the integration of torpedoes.
Asia-Pacific
North Korea fired a salvo of short-range ballistic missiles early Thursday, Seoul’s military said, hours after Pyongyang sent hundreds of trash-filled balloons across the border to punish South Korea. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it had detected the launch of “what are suspected to be around 10 short-range ballistic missiles,” fired into waters east of the Korean peninsula, it said. The missiles flew around 350 kilometres (217 miles), JCS said, adding that it was analysing the specifics alongside the United States and Japan. The launch was a “provocation that seriously threatens peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula,” it added.
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