Americas Bell Boeing won a $18 million contract modification, which exercises an option to provide systems integration, technical analysis, and engineering support for the V-22 aircraft. The V-22 Osprey is a joint-service, medium-lift, multimission tilt-rotor...
Aircraft Articles
GD To Produce More Abrams Tanks | Egypt To Hose Another Defense Expo | Finland Chooses F-35
Americas General Dynamics won a $93.5 million deal for M1A2 Abrams engineering, manufacturing, design and production. The M1A2 is an improvement of the Abrams M1A1 main battle tank. It includes a commander's independent thermal viewer, weapon station, position...
USS Oakland To Be Armed With NSM | Mali Received Chinese VN2C | DoS Approved Two Sales To Greece
Americas Lockheed Martin won a $20.5 million contract modification, which adds scope to provide non-recurring engineering for the selected F-35 “Out the Window” replacement solution in support of full mission simulator production for the Air Force, Navy, and non-US...
MDA Awarded Stratolaunch Hypersonic Test Deal | Big Lizzie Returned Home | Indonesia Took Delivery Of Bell 505s
Americas Boeing won a $366 million contract modification, which increases the ceiling to extend the service life for up to 32 F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft. Boeing delivered the first Super Hornet to the US Navy in February 2020 under the Service Life Modification...
USAF Pegasus To Refuel More Aircraft | Saudi Arabia Running Low On Patriots | IAF Test Fired BrahMos Super Sonic Cruise Missile
Americas L3Harris Technologies won a $45.8 million deal for development to integrate the AN/PRC-160 high frequency manpack radio in the MH-47 and MH-60 aircraft. The Boeing MH-47G is a special operations variant of the CH-47 Chinook multi-role, heavy-lift helicopter....
Sikorsky Tapped For CH-53K Production| Safran To Acquire Orolia | Kazakhstan Gets Barys 6×6 IFVs
Americas Sikorsky won a $35.3 million deal to procure long lead items for full-rate production, Lot 7, CH-53K aircraft. The Ch-53K Super Stallion can be fielded from amphibious assault ships for the transportation of personnel and equipment. It can be operated from...
Canada’s CH-148 Fleet Nearly Completely Grounded | Italy And Austria Enter G2G Deal For AW169s | IN Launches “Sandhayak”
Americas Cracks have been found on the tails of Canada’s CH-148 fleet, the problem affects 19 out of the 23 helicopters. The issue surfaced on November 26 when one of the helicopter underwent scheduled maintenance and the cracks were discovered. Subsequent checks on...
Canada’s CH-148 Cyclones: 4th Time Lucky?
CH-148 Cyclone (click to view full) Canada's Maritime Helicopter Replacement Program has been a textbook military procurement program over its long history. Unfortunately, it has been a textbook example of what not to do. While Canada's 50-year old Sea King fleet aged...
Boeing To Supply F-15 ADCPII Support | Egypt Revealed Domestic Naval Vessels | Bundeswehr Orders Simulation Tech From Rheinmetall
Americas Bell Boeing won a $9.3 million contract modification, which exercises an option to procure 68 Conversion Area Harness (CAH) base kits, 53 CAH supplemental kits, two hardware kits and two consumable kits in support of the Marine Corps MV-22 aircraft, the Air...

