Americas L3 Technologies won a $20.7 million deal for the Manned/Unmanned Teaming hardware and technical and engineering support for the Apache attack helicopter. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. The US Air Force carried out its first test of...
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AeroVironment Tapped For RQ-20B Systems | DoS Approves Sales To Oman, Belgium And Lithuania | Kalyani Contracted For Artillery Guns
Americas AeroVironment won an $86.4 million deal for the RQ-20B All Environment 3 and the Long Endurance Puma unmanned aircraft systems. RQ-20B is a block 2 upgrade of the Pointer Upgraded Mission Ability-All Environment (Puma AE) small unmanned aircraft system (UAS)...
Team Torpedo: US Firms Sell & Support MK48s and MK54s
Mk 48: Before and After (click for full sequence) The Mk-48 is the standard heavyweight torpedo used by the US military, and is mounted primarily on submarines. Surface ships use the smaller Mk46 or Mk50. The Mk-54, in contrast, stemmed from the need for a smaller,...
American AH-64D Apache: War Replacement Contracts
Latest updates: Total rises to 68. Replacement required (click to view full) War takes its toll on equipment, as well as men. In some cases, it wears out. In other cases, enemy fire or accidents destroy equipment. The USA has recognized this fact by funding wartime...
Raytheon’s Standard Missile Naval Defense Family (SM-1 to SM-6)
SM-2 Launch, DDG-77 (click to view larger) Variants of the SM-2 Standard missile are the USA's primary fleet defense anti-air weapon, and serve with 13 navies worldwide. The most common variant is the RIM-66K-L/ SM-2 Standard Block IIIB, which entered service in 1998....
AW159 Wildcat: The Future Lynx Helicopter Program
Future Lynx naval (click to view full) In 2006, Finmeccanica subsidiary AgustaWestland received a GBP 1 billion (about $1.9 billion at 02/07 rates) contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for 70 Future Lynx helicopters, and began a new chapter in a long-running...
Pave Hawks – New Combat Rescue Helicopter
HH-60G, Afghanistan (click to view full) In 2006 the US Air Force awarded Boeing a contract worth north of $10 billion for 141 HH-47 combat search-and-rescue helicopters, but by mid-2009 the CSAR-X program was cancelled during its System Development and Demonstration...
US Hellfire Missile Orders, FY 2011-2022
USN MH-60S test (click to view full) Hellfire I/II missiles are the USA's preferred aerial anti-armor missile, and are widely deployed with America's allies. They equip America's helicopter fleets (AH-64, AH-1, OH-58D, MH-60S/R), AH-64 and S-70 helicopters flown by...
Airfields Afloat: The USA’s New Gerald Ford Class Super-Carriers
USA's Nimitz Class & UK's Invincible Class (click to view full) Some nations have aircraft carriers. The USA has super-carriers. The French Charles De Gaulle Class nuclear carriers displace about 43,000t. India's new Vikramaditya/ Admiral Gorshkov Class will have...