Americas Boeing won a $49.7 million deal for the inspection and overhaul of the CH-47 Chinook mechanical transmission. The CH-47D Chinook helicopter transports troops, artillery, supplies and equipment to the battlefield with other applications ranging from medical...
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US Army Orders Passive Night Vision Goggles | IN And VPN Show Interoperability | RoKN Commissioned Dosan An Chang-ho
Americas Elbit Systems and L3 Technologies will compete for each order of the $92 million firm-fixed-price contract for the Aviator's Night Vision Imaging System III. The Aviator's Night Vision Imaging System III has Independent eye span adjustment and 25-mm relief...
Raytheon To Support ESSM Consortium | Ukraine To Establish Mi-17 Repair Center in Turkey | Japan Probably Won’t Fund Aegis Ashore Alternative Proposal Soon
Americas Raytheon won a $7 million modification in support of the evolved Seasparrow Missile Block II life of type buy of parts for the NATO Seasparrow Consortium. The Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) (RIM-162) is a medium-range, surface-to-air missile designed and...
DEM Demonstration Program Concludes | Vertex Aerospace to Support Kuwaiti KC-130Js | Cheongung II Cleared For Mass Production
Americas Boeing won a $10 million modification for F-15C and F-15E Mission Training Centers (MTC). The contract modification provides for updates to the F-15 MTC training systems in order to achieve training service objectives. Boeing is upgrading USAF F-15C and F-15E...
Marine Corps Attacked Target Ship With NMESIS | Turkey Unveiled NAZAR | France Suspended Military Cooperation With Ethiopia
Americas The US Marine Corps has used its Navy/Marine Corps Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) to attack a target ship more than 100 nautical miles away during a test in Hawaii. The actual firing of the Naval Strike Missile was carried out by engineers...
Sikorsky To Overhaul Army’s Black Hawk Main Rotor Blade | Turkey To Showcase Cagatay Drone | Spanish Civil Guard Seeks To Buy Assault Rifles
Americas Sikorsky won a $116.5 million deal for maintenance and overhaul of the Black Hawk main rotor blade. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. The UH-60 Black Hawk, developed by Sikorsky, has been operational in the US Army since 1978. In April...
SDA Studies Earth’s Infrared for Missile Defense | Chinooks To Help With Wildfires in Turkey | Cyprus Plans Mi-35s Sale To Serbia
Americas The Defense Department’s Space Development Agency (SDA) plans to launch an experimental payload, developed together with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), to study the infrared background created by the Earth. The experiment is called Prototype Infrared...
NG Tapped For Hawkeye Computers | Kozak-5s Arrived In Saudi Arabia | Japan Budgets Millions For F-35s
Americas Northrop Grumman won a $8.4 million delivery order for support of the E2-D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft program avionics flight management computers. The E-2D provides broad area coverage resulting in broader range capabilities. With the E-2D’s enhanced ability...
Floatin’ Smokey: The USA’s SBX Radar
SBX-1, Pearl Harbor (click to view full) As rogue state proliferation by the likes of North Korea made missile defense a growing priority for nations including the USA, Japan, and Israel, the USA began to look at the linchpin of any defense: powerful radars that could...

