Americas * Canada has been approved by the US State Department to purchase up to 18 Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft. In addition to 10 F/A-18Es and 8 F/A-18Fs, the Trump administration approved the transfer of up to 44 F414-GE-400 engines, associated...
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Beechcraft to Maintain US T-6 Trainer Fleet, FY17
T-6A JPATS (click to view full) Nov 1/12: DynCorp International LLC in Fort Worth, TX receives a $72.8 million contract modification for contractor operated and maintained base supply services for the T-6A/B Texan II Joint Primary Aircraft Training System aircraft....
Iron Dome prepares for US Army SHORAD demo | US Navy orders radar upgrades for sub-hunting Seahawks | India prepares light tank order for Chinese border
Americas * L-3 Communications will move forward with migrating the US Air Force's EC-130H Compass Call equipment to a Gulfstream 550 Conformal Airborne Early Warning (CAEW) aircraft, after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) turned down a protest from rivals...
Bell completes first build of V-280 Valor | State Dept. finally clears F-16Vs for Bahrain | France makes Belgium an offer it can’t refuse
Americas * Raytheon has been awarded a $38 million cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the US Air Force to conduct work for the System Improvement Program 3- Engineering Manufacturing, Development. Under the terms of the deal, the firm will...
GAO clears disputed CAS sale to Kenya | Canada mulls second-hand Hornets from Australia | Rafael looks to Spike eastern European IFV market
Americas * Canada is looking to Australia to aid it with its interim fighter requirement, as a dispute between the government and aerospace manufacturer Boeing continues. The row stemmed from a complaint made by Boeing against Canadian firm Bombardier over allegations...
USAF wraps up OA-X experiment | Hanwha chases European K9 howitzer sales | India orders Dhruv helicopters for army and navy
Americas * General Dynamics Land Systems has won two US Department of Defense (DoD) contracts for the upgrade of M1A2 series of main battle tanks for the US Army. The first contract, valued at $311 million, calls for the firm to upgrade seven Abrams tanks from the...
UTC buys Rockwell Collins in $30 billion merger | UK Neo-Nazis members of Army | Mattis pressures Sweden over nuclear treaty
* On Monday, Aerospace supplier United Technologies Corp struck a $30 billion accord to buy avionics and interiors maker Rockwell Collins, thus making one of the world’s largest makers of civilian and defense aircraft components. Under the deal, the companies said...
USS George Washington begins overhaul | UK chases post-Brexit business | Bangladesh fighters sent to Myanmar border amid claims of ethnic cleansing
Americas * Huntington Ingalls has being awarded a $2.8 billion US Navy contract for USS George Washington (CVN-73) refueling complex overhaul. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is expected to be out of action for the next 4-5 years as it undergoes the necessary...
Hydra, Awakened: Guided Air-Ground Rockets
Boom. (click to view full) Sen. Leahy's [D-VT] worked in the mid-2000s to keep the Hydra 70mm rocket family alive through special appropriations, just in time for the Hydras' potential on the battlefield to rise again. The key was the addition of low-cost precision...