Americas Saab has won a $494-million contract to supply the US Army with XM919 Individual Assault Munitions (IAM). According to the US Department of Defense, the Swedish company’s proposal bested two others, but it did not reveal the names of the losing firms. Several...
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US Army Awarded GD M10 Booker Combat Vehicle Deal | NG To Build Deep Space Radar | Kadena Continued F-15 Divestment Plan
Americas The Mayor of Iwakuni, Yoshihiko Fukuda, has agreed to the US Navy’s deployment of CMV-22 Osprey aircraft at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, marking the first stationing of this tilt-rotor variant in his city. The decision aligns with a broader realignment...
US Army Awarded SNC HADES System Integration Deal | South Africa Halts Artillery Shell Delivery To Poland | DoS Approves Apache Sale To Australia
Americas Technology company Shield AI has conducted a “groundbreaking” demonstration of coordinated autonomous flight on two Kratos MQM-178 Firejets. The planes were flown by the company’s Hivemind artificial intelligence pilots, collaborating to execute coordinated...
L3 Technologies Tapped For Growler Support | EWS Upgrade F-16s Meant For Ukraine | Taiwan Builds Harpoon Missiles
Asia-Pacific L3 Technologies won a $587.4 million contract for the design, production and delivery of electronic warfare test articles and fleet prototypes to include 11 pod simulators, eight operational prototype pods, four jettison mass model pods, two captive mass...
AH-64E Apache Block III: Evolving Battlefield Roles
AH-64 in Afghanistan (click to view full) The AH-64 Apache will remain the US Army's primary armed helicopter for several more decades, thanks to the collapse of the RAH-66 Comanche program, and the retirement sans replacement of the US Army's Armed Reconnaissance...
Thomas Instrument Tapped For B-1B Remanufacture | DoS Approved AMRAAM Sale To Norway | India Approved For Anti-Sub Equipment Sale
Americas Thomas Instrument won a $9 million firm-fixed-price requirements contract for the remanufacture of the B-1B lower rudder and master pitch/roll servo-cylinder. Work will be performed in Brookshire, Texas, and is expected to be completed by Aug. 22, 2029. This...
AMRAAM: Deploying & Developing America’s Medium-Range Air-Air Missile
AIM-120C from F-22A (click for test missile zoom) Raytheon's AIM-120 Advanced, Medium-Range Air to Air Missile (AMRAAM) has become the world market leader for medium range air-to-air missiles, and is also beginning to make inroads within land-based defense systems. It...
Sikorsky Tapped For Black Hawk Support | Oshkosh To Supply US Army With FHTV | BAE To Upgrade New Zealand VBS4
Americas Sikorsky won a $97.3 million deal for various H-60 Black Hawk configurations. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of August 21, 2029. Army...
Simulators At Sea On CVN 72 | DoS OKs Chinook & Apache Training Packages Sale To Netherlands | DoS OK Javelin Sale To Australia
Americas X-Bow Systems announced that it has completed the preliminary design review of its solid fuel hypersonic booster rocket engine. The New Mexico-based defense tech company reported that completion of this phase marks the second major technical review for the...