Americas Raytheon won a $287 million modification, which adds scope to provide for recertification and modernization of 166 Tomahawk Block IV All-Up-Round Missiles (142 for the Navy and 24 for Foreign Military Sales customers) in support of enabling the missiles to be...
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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...
Argentina To Buy F-16s From Denmark | Saab’s Arexis Suite Might Be Integrated Into Eurofighters | Indonesia Commissioned Turkish Tanks
Americas The US Army’s Apache helicopter is once again facing public scrutiny after a crash Monday night at a military base in Washington state. A Boeing-made AH-64E attack chopper assigned to the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade plunged to the ground while participating...
Boeing Tapped For Poseidon Tapped | Spain To Send Leopards To Ukraine | Rheinmetall Supplies German Armed Forces With Carriers
Americas Boeing won a $10 million modification, which adds scope to procure ancillary support for three Navy P-8A aircraft and one retrofit kit for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8A aircraft with Increment Three Engineering Change Proposal Six Capabilities....
Life Cyle Tapped For DDG 51 IPS | Saab To Develop Concept For Next-Gen Swedish Fighter | South Korea Contracted LIG Nex1 For Missile
Americas Life Cycle Engineering was awarded a $50 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the DDG 1000 Class Integrated Power System (IPS); the DDG 51 Class Flight III and New Construction IPS; the Advanced...
Adding Arleigh Burkes: H.I.I. Steps Forward for DDG-51 Restart
DDG-110 Construction (click to view full) In April 2009 Bath and Ingalls agreed to the Navy's surface combatant plans, thus heralding a significant restructuring within the American naval shipbuilding community. Under the agreements, the USA would end production at 3...
USAF Asks For NGAS Engines | US Tinkering With High Energy Lasers In Iraq | BAE Builds New Nuke Subs For Downunder
Americas Mid-Atlantic Technical and Executive Consulting LLC won a $10.4 million firm-fixed modification to a previously awarded contract. This modification adds scope through additional contract line-item numbers for technical evaluation, proposal evaluation, cost...
USAF Asks For NGAS Engines | Iraq Procures New Anti-Aircraft Weapons | India Created AH-64E Squadron
Americas The US Air Force is asking industry partners for engines to power its Next-Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) aircraft. A request for information (RFI) released Monday states that the service will accept new or existing propulsion systems provided that...
HII Tapped For Ford Class Switchboards | DoS Approved Javelin Deal To Morocco | DoS Approved Abrams Deal To Bahrain
Americas The dream of equipping the AC-130J Ghostrider gunship with a high-energy laser weapon system has come to an end. The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) has officially shelved its Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) program due to “technical...