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Northrop Wins $3.2Bn Contract for 24 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Aerospace Systems, Melbourne, Florida, is awarded $3,169,708,972 for modification P00006 to definitize the previously awarded E-2D Advanced Hawkeye (AHE) Lot 7 advance

New KC-46 Deliveries Still Weeks Away
The Air Force will begin receiving KC-46s again within weeks, following a second round of inspections after more foreign object debris was discovered in the aircraft. However, the service now needs to

US Navy P-8A and Destroyer Join Search for Japanese F-35A Pilot
MISAWA, Japan --- U.S. Navy P-8A maritime patrol aircraft and a guided-missile destroyer are assisting Japanese-led search and rescue efforts for the pilot of a Japan Air Self Defense Force F-35A miss

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Northrop Wins $3.2Bn Contract for 24 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Aerospace Systems, Melbourne, Florida, is awarded $3,169,708,972 for modification P00006 to definitize the previously awarded E-2D Advanced Hawkeye (AHE) Lot 7 advance ...

New KC-46 Deliveries Still Weeks Away
The Air Force will begin receiving KC-46s again within weeks, following a second round of inspections after more foreign object debris was discovered in the aircraft. However, the service now needs to...

US Navy P-8A and Destroyer Join Search for Japanese F-35A Pilot
MISAWA, Japan --- U.S. Navy P-8A maritime patrol aircraft and a guided-missile destroyer are assisting Japanese-led search and rescue efforts for the pilot of a Japan Air Self Defense Force F-35A miss...

Ukrainian Engines, Russian Transmission for China’s New Heavy Helicopter
Back in 2001, China and Russia formed a strategic partnership, when their leaders at the time, Jiang Zemin and Vladimir Putin, signed a friendship treaty. Ever since, military and high-tech cooperatio...

Letters of Censure Replace Courts-Martial for USS Fitzgerald Officers
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- At the recommendation of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer will issue a Secretarial Letter of Censure to USS Fitzgerald (DDG...

Guillaume Faury Takes Over As New Airbus CEO
AMSTERDAM --- Airbus SE shareholders passed all resolutions at its 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM), including the appointment of Guillaume Faury as an Executive Member of the Board of Directors for ...

Seven Nations Issue Joint Statement on Military Space
Senior international leaders in Space are meeting for the annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from April 8 to 11, 2019. Air chiefs and their senior space representatives from Austral...

Rethinking the Combat Air Survivability Mix Conference
On 20 March 2019, RUSI brought together a conference that re-examined what the optimal survivability mix might look like in the late 2020s and 2030s, in light of current trends of both combat air syst...

Royal Marine Helicopters Train for CAS During Exercise
The ‘flying eyes’ of the Royal Marines can now bring full fire and fury down on their foes after a crucial week’s training with NATO allies in northern Scotland. Bombs from fast jets and shells eit...

DOD Comptroller: Overmatch Against China, Russia Critical
WASHINGTON --- The fiscal year 2020 defense budget request is a “strategy-driven budget,” the Defense Department’s comptroller said yesterday during a hearing of the Senate Budget Committee. The bu...

Thales Welcomes British Minister's Statement on Maritime Autonomy
Thales welcomes the announcement by Gavin Williamson MP, the Secretary of State for Defence, that MOD will invest £75 million in pioneering new technology to revolutionise Royal Navy operations, inclu...

Australia Orders More Carl Gustav Ammunition from Saab
Saab has received an order for deliveries of Carl-Gustaf® ammunition to the Australian Army, the total order value is SEK 168 million and deliveries are expected to take place in 2020. In Septembe...

Brazilian AF Prepares for New Gripen Fighter
BRASÍLIA --- The Gripen F-39 is the new fighter of the Brazilian Air Force that is being developed to protect Brazilian airspace. The choice for Gripen began in December 2013 when the federal governme...

Pentagon Cancels Contract for JASON Advisory Panel
In a startling blow to the system of independent science and technology advice, the Department of Defense decided not to renew its support for the JASON defense science advisory panel, it was disclose...

Adour Jet Engine Production Seen Slowing
Demand for the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour engine comes from a single application: BAE System’s Hawk jet trainer. The order book for the Hawk jet trainer currently includes orders from Saudi Arabia an...

Russian TOS-1A Thermobaric MLRS Seen in Saudi
Saudi Arabia has taken delivery of its first TOS-1 multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) from Russia. A pair of images emerged on social media on April 9, 2019, appearing to show the TOS-1A MLRS in ...

Nordic Defense Ministers Meet on Gotland
Between 9 and 10 April a Nordic defence ministerial meeting was held on Gotland as part of Sweden’s Chairmanship of NORDEFCO in 2019. During the meeting, issues such as total defence, regional securit...

NATO Intensifies Scientific Cooperation with Ukraine
Experts from NATO and Ukraine took stock of progress made on several projects and agreed on new areas of cooperation, such as the reintegration of female military personnel into civilian life. This wa...

NSPA Facilitates Multinational Cooperation in Defence
NATO nations and partners realise that to be able response to current and future security concerns appropriately, they need to invest in modernising their current capabilities and acquiring new ones. ...

Lithuania, Czechia Discuss Cooperation in Defence Procurement
On April 9 Vice Minister of National Defence Giedrimas Jeglinskas met with Deputy Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic Jakub Landovský. The officials discussed topical security issues, NATO and E...

Industry Demonstrates AW in Live Combat Demo
A three-day electronic warfare defence industry exhibition event is taking place at the Tartu Airport, where nearly 30 international and Estonian companies are demonstrating their products in a live e...

MBDA Inaugurates New Laser Weapon Test Lab in Bordeaux
On 27 March, In Bordeaux (France), MBDA and ALPhANOV inaugurated their common Vulnerability Test Facility (VTF). This new facility, in development since 2016, is designed to test the effects of las...

BAE Lays Foundations for Qatar Technical Insitute
Construction begins on a landmark Technical Institute to provide specialist training for Qatar's Armed Forces technicians. At a ceremony in Doha on the 10th April, foundations were laid to mark the...

Rethinking the Combat Air Survivability Mix
GAO: $115 Billion Not Enough for Columbia-class Subs
The US Air Force's OA-X Program: Pros and Cons

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