RQ-4A Global Hawk (click to view full) Northrop Grumman's RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV has established a dominant position in the High Altitude/ Long Endurance UAV market. While they are not cheap, they are uniquely capable. During Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the system...
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Boeing Tapped For Poseidon Pallet System | Iran Conducted Electronic Warfare Exercise | Japan To Design New Air-To-Air Missile
Americas Kihomac won a $12.5 million deal for A?10 aircraft nacelle doors. This was a competitive acquisition with three responses received. This is a five?year contract with no option periods. The performance completion date is August 31, 2028. Using military service...
A Higher-Tech Hog: USAF A-10C Upgraded, Refurbished, Unloved – But More in Demand
A-10A over Germany (click to view full) The Precision Engagement modification is the largest single upgrade effort ever undertaken for the USA's unique A-10 "Warthog" close air support aircraft fleet. While existing A/OA-10 aircraft continue to outperform...
HADES Gets FFS | EDGE Group And DCTA Join Forces | Spanish Army Acquired Tracked Armored Vehicles
Americas Leidos has awarded CAE a deal to supply a Full Flight Simulator (FFS) for the US Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) program. HADES seeks to enhance the service’s aerial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (A-ISR)...
Up to $11.9B for B-52H Maintenance & Modernization
B-52H: flyin' low, dyin' slow... (click to view full) Officially, it's the B-52H Stratofortress. Unofficially, it's the BUFF (Big Ugly Fat F--cker). Either way, this subsonic heavy bomber remains the mainstay of the U.S. strategic fleet after more than 50 years of...
Sikorsky Wins $2B US Navy Deal | US Starts F-16 Training For Ukrainian Pilots | 5 Companies Want To Produce Bulgarian Radars
Americas Sikorsky won a $2 billion modification by the US Navy, which adds scope for Lots 7 and 8 block buy contract for a combined quantity of 35 CH-53K full-rate production aircraft, 27 for the Marine Corps and eight for the government of Israel, as well as provides...
NG Tapped For Triton Unmanned Aircraft Systems | Norway To Send F-16s To Ukraine | Indonesia Buys F-15s And Black Hawks
Americas Northrop Grumman won a $83.1 million order, which provides for retrofit of two MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems (B9 and B10) and one main operating base (MB-6P) to an Integrated Functional Capability Four, multiple-intelligence configuration for the...
Lockheed Martin Tapped For F-35 Parts | DoS Approves Apache Sale To Poland | DoS Approved HIMARS Sale To Australia
Americas Lockheed Martin won a $606.8 modification, which procures long lead time materials, parts, components, and efforts in support of maintaining on-time production and delivery of 173, Lot 19, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft for Foreign Military Sales (FMS)...
US Army Tapping Industry For Short-Wave Infrared Laser | Iran Built Mohajer-10 | Netherlands Double Its Fleet Of MQ-9As
Americas Oshkosh Defense won a $40.1 million modification by the Army for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle. Work will be performed in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with an estimated completion date of August 29, 2025. Fiscal 2022, 2023 and 2024 other procurement, Army funds;...