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  • Raytheon Tapped For Tomahawk Modernization | Lithuania Adopts New National...
    by Emily Erhold on March 28, 2024 at 2:00 pm

    Americas Raytheon won a $287 million modification, which adds scope to provide for recertification and modernization of 166 Tomahawk Block IV All-Up-Round Missiles (142 for the Navy and 24 for Foreign Military Sales customers) in support of enabling the missiles to be operational for up to an […]

  • Tomahawk’s Chops: xGM-109 Block IV Cruise Missiles
    by Joe Katzman on March 28, 2024 at 1:58 pm

    Block IV Cutaway (click to view full) Block IV Tomahawk is the current generation of the Tomahawk family of cruise missiles. The BGM-109 Tomahawk family began life in the 1980s as sub-sonic, low-flying nuclear strike weapons, before being developed into long-range RGM/UGM-109 conventional attack […]

  • Argentina To Buy F-16s From Denmark | Saab’s Arexis Suite Might Be Integrated...
    by Emily Erhold on March 28, 2024 at 4:00 am

    Americas The US Army’s Apache helicopter is once again facing public scrutiny after a crash Monday night at a military base in Washington state. A Boeing-made AH-64E attack chopper assigned to the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade plunged to the ground while participating in a routine training […]

  • AH-64E Apache Block III: Evolving Battlefield Roles
    by Joe Katzman on March 28, 2024 at 3:58 am

    AH-64 in Afghanistan (click to view full) The AH-64 Apache will remain the US Army’s primary armed helicopter for several more decades, thanks to the collapse of the RAH-66 Comanche program, and the retirement sans replacement of the US Army’s Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH). Apaches also […]

  • Boeing Tapped For Poseidon Tapped | Spain To Send Leopards To Ukraine |...
    by Emily Erhold on March 27, 2024 at 4:00 am

    Americas Boeing won a $10 million modification, which adds scope to procure ancillary support for three Navy P-8A aircraft and one retrofit kit for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8A aircraft with Increment Three Engineering Change Proposal Six Capabilities. Work will be performed in […]

  • P-8 Poseidon MMA: Long-Range Maritime Patrol, and More
    by Joe Katzman on March 27, 2024 at 3:58 am

    P-8A Poseidon (click to view full) Maritime surveillance and patrol is becoming more and more important, but the USA’s P-3 Orion turboprop fleet is falling apart. The P-7 Long Range Air ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) Capable Aircraft program to create an improved P-3 began in 1988, but cost […]

  • Life Cyle Tapped For DDG 51 IPS | Saab To Develop Concept For Next-Gen Swedish...
    by Emily Erhold on March 26, 2024 at 4:00 am

    Americas Life Cycle Engineering was awarded a $50 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the DDG 1000 Class Integrated Power System (IPS); the DDG 51 Class Flight III and New Construction IPS; the Advanced Missile Defense Radar Support Power […]

  • Adding Arleigh Burkes: H.I.I. Steps Forward for DDG-51 Restart
    by Joe Katzman on March 26, 2024 at 3:58 am

    DDG-110 Construction (click to view full) In April 2009 Bath and Ingalls agreed to the Navy’s surface combatant plans, thus heralding a significant restructuring within the American naval shipbuilding community. Under the agreements, the USA would end production at 3 Graf Spee sized DDG-1000 […]

  • USAF Asks For NGAS Engines | US Tinkering With High Energy Lasers In Iraq | BAE...
    by Emily Erhold on March 25, 2024 at 4:00 am

    Americas Mid-Atlantic Technical and Executive Consulting LLC won a $10.4 million firm-fixed modification to a previously awarded contract. This modification adds scope through additional contract line-item numbers for technical evaluation, proposal evaluation, cost analysis, price analysis, and […]

  • F-35 Lightning: The Joint Strike Fighter Program
    by Padraig McCarrick on March 25, 2024 at 3:58 am

    F-35B: off probation (click to view full) The $382 billion F-35 Joint Strike fighter program may well be the largest single global defense program in history. This major multinational program is intended to produce an “affordably stealthy” multi-role fighter that will have 3 variants: the F-35A […]

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