Americas RTX subsidiary Pratt & Whitney has been awarded a $1.3 billion contract to continue maturing the F135 Engine Core Upgrade. The contract includes ”design, analysis, rig testing, engine test preparation, developmental hardware, test asset assembly, air...
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Brazil Received New C-390 | Lockheed To Provide Trident Support | Azerbaijan’s JF-17C Block-III Fighters In Service
Americas Northrup Grumman won a $387 million modification to provide continued research and development of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Cockpit Technical Refresh cockpit redesign and Theater Combat Identification to replace the current E-2D integrated navigation and...
Trident II D5 Missile: Keeping Up with Changing Times
Trident II D5 Test Launch (click to view full) Nuclear tipped missiles were first deployed on board US submarines at the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, to deter a Soviet first strike. The deterrence theorists argued that, unlike their land-based cousins,...
Raytheon Tapped For Tomahawk Support | DoS Approves FMS To Iraq | EU Open Defense Innovation Office in Kyiv
Americas Raytheon won a $14 million modification for the continued design, integration, test, and delivery of Joint Multiple Effects Warhead System to be installed into the Recertified Tomahawk All-Up-Round in support of the Navy. Work is expected to be completed in...
Tomahawk’s Chops: xGM-109 Block IV Cruise Missiles
Block IV Cutaway (click to view full) Block IV Tomahawk is the current generation of the Tomahawk family of cruise missiles. The BGM-109 Tomahawk family began life in the 1980s as sub-sonic, low-flying nuclear strike weapons, before being developed into long-range...
AAR Tapped For Poseidon Maintenance | Lockheed Secures Deal To Integrate F-35s To Czech Republic
Americas Illinois-based aviation service provider AAR has received a $1.2-billion contract to perform maintenance for the US Navy’s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft fleet. The agreement stipulates depot-level engine and airframe sustainment as...
P-8 Poseidon MMA: Long-Range Maritime Patrol, and More
P-8A Poseidon (click to view full) Maritime surveillance and patrol is becoming more and more important, but the USA's P-3 Orion turboprop fleet is falling apart. The P-7 Long Range Air ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) Capable Aircraft program to create an improved P-3...
Rockwell Collins Tapped For Black Hawk Overhaul | Israel Secures $8.7B Aid Package From US | Raytheon Delivered AN/TPY-2 To Saudi Arabia
Americas Rockwell Collins won a $52 million contract for maintenance and overhaul of UH-60 Black Hawk components. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date...
Sikorsky’s $8.5-11.7B “Multi-Year 8” H-60 Helicopter Contract
US Army HH-60Ms (click to view full) In July 2012, the US military signed another huge contract with Sikorsky. With production of the Army's HH/UH-60M, and the Navy's MH-60S and MH-60R helicopters, all in full swing, there's no question about the need for future...