Americas Sikorsky won an $8 million deal, which exercises an option to provide for the production and delivery of CH-53K tooling and supplier rate tooling, as well as management through final acceptance, ensuring the program can meet aircraft production rate, based on...
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GA Flew New UAV Based On MQ-1C | ST Engineering Wins Deal For Falaj 3 Class OPVs | Rafale Deal With Egypt Entered Into Force
Americas According to Breaking Defense, General Atomics flew a new drone that is heavily based on the MQ-1C this summer. The new unmanned air vehicle or UAV can carry up to 16 Hellfire missiles and requires less than 800 ft of runway to operate. An anonymous source...
Raytheon To Repair H-60 Turret And Sensor-Sight | IAI Unveiled Scorpius EW Systems | Spain To Convert A330 Into MRTT
Americas The Brazilian Air Force wants to move forward with its plan to cut its order for the Embraer KC-390 tactical transport from 28 to 15 airframes. According to Embraer, the move was done unilaterally and the aerospace firm is considering taking legal actions....
Lockheed And Keysight Test 5G Solutions | Bell Textron To Provide AH-1Z Training Device For Czech Republic | IN Received 4th Scorpene Class Sub
Americas Kampi Components won a maximum $9.7 million deal for hose assemblies supporting the Army AH-64 D & E Longbow helicopter. The AH-64 Apache is a twin-engined army attack helicopter. The AH-64D Longbow is fitted with the Longbow millimetre wave fire control...
Iron Dome Deployed In Guam | Turkey To Start UGV Mass Production | Affinity Wins Additional T-6C Jets Operation Deal
Americas The Israeli-made Iron Dome missile interception system has been deployed in Guam. The equipment first arrived on the island by ship on October 19. The deployment has been dubbed Operation Iron Island. Atlantic Diving Supply won a $25 million contract...
Iron Dome Sees Israel Ramp up, Raytheon Partnership for US Market
Iron Dome concept (click to view full) On August 16, 2011, Rafael and Raytheon announced a partnership to market the Iron Dome system in the United States. This rocket interception system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has an all-weather range of up to...
Korean Air Refueling: Airbus Wins
KAL A330-200 (click to view full) South Korea is moving to buy 4 long-range aerial refueling tankers with secondary transport capabilities, with a budget of WON 2 billion (about $1.8 billion). That capability isn't a huge priority on the Korean peninsula itself, but...
Kentucky Air National Guard Receives First 2 C-130Js | KAI To Maintain Iraqi T-50IQ Fleet | South Korea To Launch Cheonan Frigate
Americas The first two of eight C-130Js for the Kentucky Air National Guard arrived at Louisville on November 6. The 123rd Airlift Wing will phase out the C-130H in September to make way for the latest variant of the Hercules. The C-130J Super Hercules is the latest...
Lockheed Tapped For F-22 ARES Support | Nigeria Gets Turkish OPVs | German Navy Orders Sea Falcons
Americas Lockheed Martin won a $10.9 million contract for Advanced Raptor Enhancement & Sustainment (ARES) for the F-22 Program Office. This contract vehicle provides support for the necessary supplies and services to sustain and modernize the F-22 Raptor,...