Americas * Kratos has been awarded a $40.8 million contract by the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to demonstrate a high-speed, long-range, low-cost, limited life-strike Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). Beating seven other competitors, the company must...
Americas * A total of five defense manufacturers have expressed an interest in supplying the replacement to Canada's CF-18 fighters. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Eurofighter and Saab all took part in a conference call with Canadian officials last week, with Dassault...
Americas * Raytheon has delivered its AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar array to the US Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii ahead of the first radar light-off in early July. According to Tad Dickenson, AMDR program director, the array was the last...
Americas * Chile's Navy is to receive MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems (VLS) armed with the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSMs). The systems and missiles will be installed as part of upgrades on three UK-built Type 23 frigates at a cost of $140 million. Raytheon, BAE...
Americas * Martin-Baker, the supplier of the ejector seat to be used in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, has refuted the suggestion that their design will not be sufficient to ensure pilot safety. On June 24, it was reported that the USAF was looking to certify rival...
Americas * Raytheon has been awarded a $291.75 million contract to supply 660 AIM-9X Block II missiles. The deal will see deliveries of the latest Sidewinder upgrade to Taiwan and Norway for the first time, as well as follow-on missiles, training, and support...
Americas * Bloomberg has reported on a previously unknown flaw found on the MQ-4C Triton UAV. According to the report, a Northrop Grumman subcontractor was producing composite wing spars with quality issues which resulted in the Defense Contract Management Agency...
Americas * The first of 21 US Army UH-60L Black Hawks, converted and remissionized into HH-60G Pave Hawks, has been introduced as part of the service's Operational Loss Replacement (OLR) program. Works on the UH-60s is being carried out by Science and Engineering...
Pantsir-S1(click to view full) In October 2012, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki signed a deal with Russia's Rosoboronexport, variously estimated at $4.2 - $5.0 billion. The deal is characteristically murky, but it includes a combination of 43 Mi-35 (28) and Mi-28NE (15)...