BOEING has $488m Foreign Military Sales contract for remanufacture of 38 AH-64 Apache aircraft, plus the purchase of three Longbow crew trainers and associated spares for the UK. Work complete by May 31, 2024. INSITU INC. has $8m U.S. Navy contract for the procurement of spare and sustainment parts to maintain U.S. Marine Corps RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aerial systems.
The “potentially existential” threat posed by North Korea is the top priority of the U.S. intelligence community, according to Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, speaking during a wide-ranging hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence May 11. The nation’s most senior intelligence officials declined in the public hearing to estimate when North Korea would be capable of launching a nuclear-armed ICBM.
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Italian investigators probing the fatal crash of the second prototype AW609 commercial tiltrotor have concluded that faulty logic within the aircraft’s flight control system ultimately led to the accident.
Amid heightened tensions with China and North Korea, the U.S. Marine Corps is showcasing the F-35B’s warfighting capabilities in exercises around the Pacific Rim.
The U.S. Air Force has settled on Textron’s Scorpion jet and AT-6 Wolverine turboprop, along with Sierra Nevada and Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano, to face off in a light attack demonstration this summer.
The U.S. Air Force has settled on Textron’s Scorpion jet and AT-6 Wolverine turboprop, along with Sierra Nevada and Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano, to face off in a light attack demonstration this summer.
The United Arab Emirates has requested up to 160 new Patriot missiles built by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon in a deal worth up to $2 billion if finalized.
Boeing is positioning for U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command’s (Usasoc) future H-6 replacement program by offering to upgrade and life extend the current fleet and deliver a new, advanced model based on the company’s AH-6.
India has postponed the launch of its long-awaited Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. 3 heavy rocket by one month, to June, to allow more time for prelaunch testing.
A new single-stage, liquid-propellant missile that North Korea tested on May 14 may fall only a little short of the conventional classification of an ICBM.
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS INC. has $221.6m U.S. Army contract for 20 Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft; 20 satellite communications air data terminals; six universal ground control stations; one mobile ground control station; nine universal ground data terminals; spares, support equipment and associated program management. BAE SYSTEMS has $48.5m U.S. Air Force contract to manage, operate and support Solid State Phased Array Radar Systems at various USAF and UK Royal Air Force locations.
President Donald Trump is taking aim at the U.S. Navy’s $3.1 billion program to modernize the technology of launching aircraft from carrier decks beyond existing steam-generated systems. General Atomics’ Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (Emals) is intended to boost the speed of flight operations while reducing manpower needs, but in the past has come under criticism from the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester. And now the president is calling the Navy’s plans into question.
Raytheon has again won the U.S. Air Force's program for a next-generation three-dimensional long-range radar, two years and seven months after an initial award that was protested by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
Malaysian plans to get used fighter jets and maritime patrollers for its air force are looking doubtful as the service claims ignorance over the deals.
ROLLS-ROYCE has $78.7m U.S. Navy contract to provide original equipment manufacturer engineering and logistics support for KC-130J aircraft AE2100D3 engines for the Marine Corps and the government of Kuwait under the Foreign Military Sales program. AIRBUS DEFENSE & SPACE demonstrated first automatic air-to-air refueling (AAR) contacts between A310 multirole tanker and Portuguese Air Force F-16 on March 21.
Egypt is asking the U.S. for a Foreign Military Sale of up to 12 Iomax Archangel aircraft for border patrol to expand its current fleet of one dozen, which were a gift from the United Arab Emirates. The question is whether Egypt will receive Foreign Military Financing (FMF) to purchase the aircraft—or approval from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. Egypt has historically received $1.3 billion in FMF. President Donald Trump has signaled he plans to drastically reduce aid to foreign militaries.
