by Emily Erhold | Jul 12, 2021 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas Huntington Ingalls won a $17.5 million deal to support maintenance and modernization on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) with special incentives to include ship alterations and propulsion plant maintenance during fiscal 2021 planned incremental availability...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jul 12, 2021 | India, Missiles - Surface-Air, Testing & Evaluation
India’s new surface-to-air missile, the Akash, successfully struck an airborne target towed from a remote control aircraft in late November. The weapon is designed to hit aircraft up to 25 km away with a 55 kg warhead. Reuters: India Test-Fires Akash Missile...
by Emily Erhold | Jul 9, 2021 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas Northrop Grumman won a $3.9 billion deal for Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile ground subsystems support. This contract provides for sustaining engineering, maintenance engineering, test and assessment, modification of systems and equipment,...
by Emily Erhold | Jul 8, 2021 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas The US Air Force published a new B-21 Raider artist rendering graphic with an accompanying fact sheet on July 6. The rendering is based on the actual aircraft, and an artist’s interpretation of the B-21 design, with Edwards Air Force Base, California in the...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 8, 2021 | BAE, Britain/U.K., Events, FOCUS Articles, Force Structure, Issues - Political, MBDA, Missiles - Surface-Air, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Protective Systems - Naval, Radars, Rolls Royce, Surface Ships - Combat, Transformation
Daring Class (click to view full) The 5,200t Type 42 Sheffield Class destroyers were designed in the late 1960s to provide fleet area air-defense for Britain’s Royal Navy, after the proposed Type 82 air defense cruisers were canceled by the Labour Government in...
