Americas DARPA Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program has completed the maiden flight of a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter without anyone onboard. Sikorsky completed 30-minutes of unmanned flight with the optionally piloted vehicle (OPV) over the US...
Fighters & Attack Articles
USAF Is Looking For E-3 Replacement | Thales To Provide Sighting Systems Under Challenger 3 MBT Upgrade Programme | Japan To Upgrade F-15s
Americas Boeing won a $95 million deal, which provides engineering services and supplies, to include capability defect package fixes and acoustic software improvement efforts in support of the continued development and sustainment of the P-8A Acoustic Operational...
USN Fired AGM-88G AARGM-ER For 2nd Time | French Rafale Diverted To Malta | DoS Approved FMS To Taiwan
Americas System High Corp won a $104.9 million deal, which provides program services for the F-35 Joint Program Office to include program management, general security, information security, information security, industrial security, physical security, personnel...
HII Completed Acceptance Trials For LPD 28 | DoS Approved FMSO To UAE | South Korea Might Buy 4 More Phalanx
Americas Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) completed acceptance sea trials on Friday for the amphibious transport dock Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28). The San Antonio Class ship, built at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, spent several days with the US Navy’s Board of...
Phalanx CIWS: The Last Defense, On Ship and Ashore
Phalanx, firing (click to view full) The radar-guided, rapid-firing MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS, pron. "see-whiz") can fire between 3,000-4,500 20mm cannon rounds per minute, either autonomously or under manual command, as a last-ditch defense against...
NAS Patuxent River Gets First LRIP MQ-4C B8 | DoS Approved F-16 Sale To Jordan | Singapore To Relocate F-16s From Luke To Fort Smith
Americas The first low-rate initial production MQ-4C in the B8 configuration, with multi-intelligence capabilities, has been delivered to NAS Patuxent River on February 1. The B8 is the first production Triton to be upgraded to the multi-intelligence configuration to...
JF Taylor Tapped Fo F-35 High Fidelity Crew Stations | Spanish Army Gets Remanufactured Chinooks | Iraq Signs Aircraft Deal With Pakistan
Americas Serco won a $22 million contract action in support of the Program Executive Office (PEO) “SHIPS” PMS 400D mission to design, build, outfit and test all DDG 51 guided-missile destroyer-class ships, increasing the design performance capability of the DDG 51...
First AIM-120D Missile Fired From F-15EX | Israel To Build Laser-Based Counter Rocket | SPY-7 Radar Integrated Into Japan’s Aegis System
Americas A crew from the 40th Flight Test Squadron successfully carried out the first AIM-120D missile firing from an F-15EX on January 25. The test took place in the Gulf of Mexico and a BQM-167 target drone was engaged by the air-to-air weapon. Maj. Benjamin...
Lockheed Wins $1.4B C-130J Deal | Egypt Ordered K9 From Hanwha | Thyssenkrupp Handed Over Final F125 Frigate
Americas Lockheed Martin won a $1.4 billion deal from the US Air Force for the C-130J mission sustainment support effort. This contract provides for contractor logistics support and sustainment of the C-130J aircraft fleet. The C-130J is equipped with a Honeywell...