Americas * With Naval Air Station Lemoore set to become the backbone of the Navy's future strike capability, the Navy awarded a contract Friday for the construction of infrastructure to support the base's fleet of F-35Cs. The $20.2 million task order covers the...
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GAO: Air Force A-10 Abandonment Divorced from Financial Reality | DoD Refiguring Satellite Control | Russia Receiving New SU-34 Fullbacks
Americas * Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work has announced his intention to stand-up a joint intelligence-military operations center for satellites, allowing all intelligence and military satellites to be controlled from a single location. Work is likely hoping that...
India Finally Receiving Kilo-Class Refit from Recalcitrant Russians | French & Saudis Sign Bevy of Deals | US Gets Lots of Advice on Financing Nukes
Americas * Modernizing the US's nuclear arsenal, including delivery systems, would remain affordable despite a thirty-year price tag of around $1 trillion, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The cost of the improvements would peak in 2027...
The ADVENT of a Better Jet Engine?
PW F119: Power!(click to view full) The Adaptive Versatile Engine Technology (ADVENT) program aims "to develop and demonstrate inlet, engine, exhaust nozzle, and integrated thermal management technologies that enable optimized propulsion system performance over a...
Work: China Challenging Air Superiority | Germany Getting First Puma Deliveries | Army Invents Term, Then Conducts Manned Unmanned Exercise
Americas * The Army has successfully conducted Manned Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) involving an AH-64 Apache and a MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAV. The Gray Eagle was used to designate a target for the Apache, with the latter then firing a Hellfire missile using data from the UAV....
F-35 Fleet Displacing Older Fighters into Secondary Market | MoD Eager for New Radios | Raytheon Working New Jammer Project
Europe * The British Ministry of Defence is looking to develop a replacement for the problematic Bowman radio system. The MoD has invited academics and industry to suggest new solutions to land and littoral communications, with the project known as Morpheus. The hope...
Egypt Jumps FREMM Line, Receiving Normandie on Tuesday | Russia’s Ka-52 Gets Export Order | India Wants French Help with BrahMos Guidance
Americas * Sikorsky delivered six CH-148 helicopters to the Canadian government on Friday, the first of twenty-eight to replace the current fleet of Sea King ASW helicopters, with these scheduled to enter full service by 2021. * On Friday the Navy handed Northrop...
AF Funds Research Allowing One Pilot to Control Many UAVs | Belarus Mulls S-400s | Russia Willing to Sell SU-35s to China Despite Likelihood of Design Grab
Americas * Not a single F-35A was downed by "hostile" fire during the Air Force's recent Green Flag West exercise, the first exercise in which the Joint Strike Fighter has participated. None of the F-35s were shot down, whilst F-16s and A-10s were. The inclusion of...
EMALS Glitches in Front of Press | France Mulls C-130Js | Jordan Too Buys Sniper Pods
North America * General Dynamics NASSCO has delivered a third Mobile Landing Platform to the Navy, following the start of construction in 2013. The USNS Lewis B. Puller was initially floated in November, with the new vessel the first Afloat Forward Staging Base...

