Americas Bell Boeing won a $143.2 million delivery order from the US Navy for the logistics and repair support of MV-22B, CMV-22 (Navy) and CV-22 (Air Force) Osprey components. The Navy is planning to use the CMV-22 variant as a replacement of the Grumman C-2...
Americas The US reportedly awarded Israeli company Rafael follow-on orders for the advanced precision targeting pod and an EW system. The company received orders from the US as well as an Asian customer, totaling approximately $55.8 million, Israeli Defense reports....
Sniper on F-16 (click to view full) At the end of September 2010, the USAF dropped something of a bombshell. Under their $2.3 billion Advanced Targeting Pod - Sensor Enhancement (ATP-SE) contract, the service that had begun standardizing on one future surveillance and...
Americas Northrop Grumman is being contracted to support the US Air Force. The $1.3 billion IDIQ contract covers sustainment, modernization and development efforts of the LITENING advanced targeting pod. Designed to improve both day and night attack capabilities,...
Americas * The Navy is reportedly considering reducing the number of F-35C fighters it plans to procure, alluding to budgetary concerns. The Navy is also less enthused by the Joint Strike Fighter compared to the Marines and Air Force because of the Service operating...
FAP's F-16AMs(click to view full) Portugal currently owns 45 F-16s as the backbone of its air force: 20-25 fly with 201 Sqn as F-16A/B Block 15s, while another 20 were upgraded via the Mid-Life Upgrade program to F-16AM status for 301 Sqn. The F-16AMs add considerable...
G4 on RDAF F-16(click to view full) The Royal Danish Air Force still flies 30 F-16AM/BMs, improved to Mid-Life Upgrade standard. They've traditionally relied on Lockheed Martin's AAQ-13/AAQ-14 pair of LANTIRN navigation and targeting pods, and a major upgrade was...
HUG a Hornet today!(click to view full) In 2008, the Northrop Grumman/ Rafael LITENING surveillance and targeting pod was chosen as the preferred surveillance and weapons targeting system for Australia's upgraded F/A-18A/B Hornet fighter aircraft, in a contract worth...
LITENING AT onto B-52(click to view full) "ATP-SE: LITENING Strikes as USAF Splits Future Targeting Pod Orders" covered the USAF's recent multi-year, dual-buy award of cutting-edge surveillance and targeting pods from Lockheed Martin (Sniper ATP-SE), and Northrop...
Finnish F/A-18D(click to view full) June 16/08: Northrop Grumman Corp. in Rolling Meadows, IL received a $9.1 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed price contract (N00019-08-C-0007) for hardware and services required to operate and maintain AN/AAQ-28...