Americas * Northrop Grumman has pulled out of the US Navy's MQ-25 Stingray unmanned refueler competition. Despite being the company who developed the test platform that proved a UAV could take off and land from an aircraft carrier, CEO Wes Bush cited the Navy's...
Dear readers, We are out of the office today! As a result, there will be no Daily Rapid Fire published tomorrow, Friday October 27. But fear not. Regular publishing will resume Monday, packed full of your favourite defense industry news, contracts, and scandals. Early...
Americas * New search-and-rescue aircraft (SAR) aircraft being manufactured by Airbus for Canada will come equipped with Elta Systems' ELM-2022A maritime patrol radar. 16 radars will be delivered for integration on the C295 aircraft being procured, however, Elta's...
CC-115, BC coast (click to view full) The USA isn't the only country whose SAR (search and rescue) aircraft programs are having a hard go of it lately. In 2004, Canada announced a program to replace its aging DHC-5 (CC-115) Buffalo (West Coast) and CC-130E/H Hercules...
An Israeli newspaper report points to that country’s continuing debate about whether or not new rotor aircraft platforms, such as the Longbow – of which Israeli just bought 18 – are worth the cost.
Americas * Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $14.7 million US Air Force (USAF) contract to enhance the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast out system, among other parts of the communications system on the C-5. Work to be undertaken include C-5 communications,...
Americas * Boeing has suggested the inclusion of equipment upgrades on US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets slated for service life extension work from next year. Negotiations between the firm and Navy for the first service life modification (SLM) contract are currently...
Americas * Boeing has awarded Lockheed Martin two contracts to upgrade the latter's IRST21 sensor system for use on the US Navy’s F/A-18E/F fleet. According to Lockheed, the Block II contracts provide up to $100 million "for developing advanced software, performing...
Americas * Canadian defense contractor Discovery Air Defense is to enter the United States Air Force’s (USAF) Adversary Air (ADAIR) competition with the General Dynamics F-16. The firm told Jane's that it had just finalized a deal to procure a "large volume" of the...