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Boeing Wins $14Bn Order from Singapore Airlines for 777X, 787-10
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has agreed to place firm orders with Boeing for 20 777-9s and 19 787-10s, for additional growth and fleet modernisation through the next decade. SIA has today signed a lett

Turkey Aims to Sell T-129 Attack Helicopters, Frigates to Pakistan
Turkey will possibly sell its T129 helicopters, which were acquired from AugustaWestland, to Pakistan. Speaking at an event hosted by İstanbul Düşünce Vakfı (Istanbul Thought Foundation), Turkish A

Leonardo to Compete Alone for USAF’s T-X Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Leonardo is proud to confirm its participation in the U.S. Air Force T-X competition with its T-100 integrated training system. Leonardo will leverage its U.S. company, Leonardo D

Russia Promotes T-90MS Main Battle Tank for Export
MOSCOW --- Russia’s Rosoboronexport company (a subsidiary of the Rostec state corporation) offers modern, reliable, and proven main battle tanks (MBT) to potential foreign customers. The company’s tan...

Boeing Wins $14Bn Order from Singapore Airlines for 777X, 787-10
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has agreed to place firm orders with Boeing for 20 777-9s and 19 787-10s, for additional growth and fleet modernisation through the next decade. SIA has today signed a lett...

Turkey Aims to Sell T-129 Attack Helicopters, Frigates to Pakistan
Turkey will possibly sell its T129 helicopters, which were acquired from AugustaWestland, to Pakistan. Speaking at an event hosted by İstanbul Düşünce Vakfı (Istanbul Thought Foundation), Turkish A...

Leonardo to Compete Alone for USAF’s T-X Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Leonardo is proud to confirm its participation in the U.S. Air Force T-X competition with its T-100 integrated training system. Leonardo will leverage its U.S. company, Leonardo D...

Bell Wins $423M Order for AH-1Z Helicopter Production
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded $423,413,136 for modification P00002 to definitize a previously awarded advance acquisition contract to a fixed-price-incentive modifi...

F-35 Cost Target Impossible Without Block Buy, Lockheed Says
WASHINGTON, DC --- A hand-shake agreement with US government negotiators slashes the cost of each F-35A ordered in the latest annual lot to $94.6 million, but the Lockheed Martin programme’s goal to d...

Rolls-Royce Wins $1.7bn to Power SIA’s Dreamliners
Rolls-Royce has won a $1.7bn order from Singapore Airlines for Trent 1000 engines to power 19 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. The engines will be covered by Rolls-Royce’s flagship engine service, Tota...

A Closer Look At Reported F-35 Kill Ratios from Red Flag
The media has run wild with reports that 13 F-35As from Hill AFB have made an impressive showing at the USAF’s largest air warfare exercise, Red Flag. Most notably, a kill ratio of 15:1 has been toute...

German AF Focused on Oil Leak After Latest A400M Glitch
BERLIN --- Germany is investigating whether engine trouble in an Airbus A400M, which broke down during a visit by Germany's defence minister to Lithuania, represents a new technical problem for the pl...

USAF Deploys First Complete Block 16 B-1s to Guam
DYESS AFB, Texas --- More than 300 Airmen assigned to the 7th Bomb Wing deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to execute the first-ever Block 16 deployment for the B-1B Lancer Jan. 31. Aircrew...

China Urges Caution on Anti-Missile System
China on Monday called on the U.S. and Japan to deal with anti-missile issue with "great care" as the two countries jointly launched a missile on Friday, a move Chinese experts said will break global ...

WTO: Embraer Supports Brazil Over Bombardier Subsidies
SÃO PAULO, Brazil --- With Embraer’s support, Brazil formally requested consultations with the Canadian Government at the World Trade Organization (WTO) today, in Geneva, regarding subsidies benefitin...

Top Pentagon Slots Being Filled by Defense Industry Reps
Lockheed Martin is the top recipient of Department of Defense contracting dollars, receiving $29.4 billion in 2015 alone and serving as the prime contractor for the Department’s largest acquisition pr...

F-35A Used As Common Sensor At Red Flag
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. --– The F-35A Lightning II can carry thousands of pounds of bombs, but its ability to gather and share information is just as deadly. Pilots from the 388th and 419th Fig...

Russian Carrier Task Force Returns from Syria to Kola
SEVEROMORSK --- Russia’s aircraft carrier-led task force has completed its successful operation in Syria - in the air, on the high seas and underwater, the Navy’s Commander-in-Chief, Vladimir Korolyov...

Nigeria to Buy 3 Used Super Tucano, Mulls Buying More New Ones
The Brazil Embraer Defence and Security Limited disclosed that the Brazilian Government has given approval for the sale of its three serviceable pre-owned Super Tucano A-29 attack aircraft to Nigeria....

Lockheed Wins $10M for F-35 Reprogramming Lab
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded $10,300,000 for delivery order 0133 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-14-G-0020)....

N. Korea Missile Tests Focus US Army on Deterrence, Response
ARLINGTON, Va. --- With North Korea testing more missiles than ever before, Army leaders say the U.S. must be prepared to deter the rogue nation and ready to launch a counterattack should events escal...

Sale of Aerostats to Saudi Could Lead to Sales of ZPY-1 Radar
The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced on January 23 that the State Department had approved a possible sale to Saudi Arabia of model 74K Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) aeros...

Turkey to Produce Bora Long-Range Surface-to-Surface Missile
ANKARA --- Turkey is building its first long-range surface-to-surface missile. The Bora Turkey's Undersecretary for Defense Industries announced the plan to proceed with the serial production of the B...

IAI Wins New Contracts for SIGINT and COMINT Systems
Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) was recently awarded a total of $30 million in contracts to supply, SIGINT and COMINT systems to customers in Asia and Europe. ELTA Systems' Ltd., a Group and Sub...

Orbital ATK Wins $45M to Next-Gen Tank Ammunition
DULLES, Va. --- Orbital ATK announced today that the company was awarded a $45 million dollar contract to complete development of the next generation 120 mm multi-purpose round for the Abrams Main Bat...

Inherent Resolve Strikes Target ISIL in Syria, Iraq
SOUTHWEST ASIA -— U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq yesterday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resol...

Israel Supports Honduras’ Efforts to Modernise Air Force
On 2nd November 2016, the Honduran National Congress approved a draft decree – 139-2016 – approving a cooperation agreement, signed on 27th July 2016, between Israel and Honduras.1 This agreement was ...

NATO and Deterrence: Strategy versus Burden Sharing
There are good reasons that the United States should ask more of several key NATO allies, should seek to modernize NATO, and should seek to expand NATO’s role in dealing with terrorism and Islamist ex...

185 Airmen Apply for UAV Pilot Selection Board
SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas --- The first enlisted remotely piloted aircraft pilot selection board meets at the Air Force Personnel Center Feb. 6-9, 2017 to identify the next enlisted group to attend ...

New USAF Course Focuses on Tactical Sortie Production
LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. --- Air Force readiness is often a topic of discussion. As recently as March 2016, during testimony to Congress, former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James stated, “less than hal...

DoDIG Investigation Clears Former AF Acquisitions Chief
WASHINGTON --- Air Force officials confirmed Richard Lombardi, the former senior acquisition official in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, was cleared of any inte...

Milestone of 10,000 Combat Sorties Nears for BACN
HANSCOM AFB, Mass. --- The Battlefield Airborne Communications Node will reach 10,000 combat missions within the next month, hitting a significant milestone just as the program office here works to ex...

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