Americas Boeing won a $129.2 million contract for the F-15 Japan Super Interceptor program. This contract provides for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force to incorporate engineering change proposals. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Missouri; Eglin Air Force Base,...
Middle East & Africa Articles
Aging Aircraft: USAF F-15 Fleet Sees Renewed Interest
F-15C over DC (click to view full) "Array of Aging American Aircraft Attracting Attention" discusses the issues that accompany an air force whose fighters have an average age of over 23.5 years - vs. an average of 8.5 years in 1967. One of the most obvious...
NG Delivered SiAW Test Missile To USAF | Germany To Join Eurofighter Helmet Effort | Taiwan Minister Leads Mission to Lithuania to Discuss Drone Tech
Americas The US Department of Defense has signed an agreement with Australia and the UK to collaborate on “offensive and defensive” hypersonic technologies. The partnership aims to accelerate the development, testing, and evaluation of cutting-edge hypersonic vehicles...
Eurofighter’s Future: Tranche 3, and Beyond
Italian Eurofighters (click to view full) The multi-national Eurofighter Typhoon has been described as the aerodynamic apotheosis of lessons learned from the twin engine "teen series" fighters that began with the F-14 and F-15, continued with the emergence of the...
USN Commissioned USS Nantucket | NATO Activates Poland Antimissile Site | Leonardo To Lease Helicopters To Malaysia
Americas Silent Arrow has clinched a $1.8-million Direct to Phase II SBIR contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to build and test six CLS-200 drones. The CLS-200 is an unmanned aerial system (UAS) known as a Contested Logistics System designed to...
LCS: The USA’s Littoral Combat Ships
Austal Team Trimaran LCS Design (click to enlarge) Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy's idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet....
Lockheed To Expand Production Capacity For PAC-3 | Elbit Gets $335M To Supply Defense Systems to Europe | Germany To Deliver 6th RIS-T To Ukraine This Year
Americas Bell Textron has selected Integris Composites to supply armor systems for the US Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program. Integris highlighted that its contribution will focus on enhancing the upcoming rotorcraft’s durability, speed, range,...
Timely Defenders: Keeping Patriots in Shape
DID’s FOCUS Article covering the Patriot anti-air missile system, including all development & contracts during the FY 2007 time frame…
Puma UAS Gets Enhancement | UAE Got More MRTTs From Airbus | Germany Started Eurofighter Sale To Turkey
Americas The 56th Air Refueling Squadron has unveiled the world’s first KC-46 Pegasus demonstration team at the Wings and Warriors Fly-In in San Marcos, Texas, on November 9. This debut performance marked a major milestone for the KC-46, highlighting its advanced...