Americas The US Department of Defense has introduced a new strategy aimed at enhancing the protection of military facilities and personnel from the growing threat of drones. While the strategy itself is classified, an unclassified fact sheet details its broader scope,...
ANG Test C-130H Precision Airdrop With Litening Pod | First AH-1Z Enters Final Assembly For Bahrain | Taiwan Launches Amphibious Vessel With Anti-Ship Missiles
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...
Rafael To Supply Litening Targeting Pods To US | Rheinmetall To Build Boxers For UK | Spanish Army Orders Portable CBRN Laboratory
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....
ATP-SE: LITENING Targeting Pods Now Feature ‘Gen-5’
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...
USAF allocates $1.3b for LITENING pod work | Nigeria buys AW109 helos | South Korea’s army resumes Surion flights
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,...
MDA Adds Boeing to Kill Vehicle Competition | Navy Awards Contracts for C4ISR; JHMCS | Portugal F-16s Get NG LITENING Upgrade
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...
Portugal Selects LITENING AT Pods for Its F-16s
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...
Denmark Upgrades to LITENING G4 Pods
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...
Australia Orders Over $100M in LITENING Targeting Pods
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...
$486M for more LITENING G4 Pods, Upgrades
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...