| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases DOD Finalizes 3-Year Purchase Plan for 458 F-35 Aircraft
The Defense Department finalized an agreement to purchase 478 additional F-35 Lightning II airplanes in a deal totaling $34 billion, officials said. Ellen M. Lord, undersecretary of defense for acq... Turkey Won’t Buy Russian Su-35 Fighters, Says Defense Minister
ANKARA --- Turkey’s National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Tuesday refuted media reports about Ankara’s plans to buy Russian Su-35 fighter jets. "Reports that Turkey will buy Su-35 fighter jets a... Royal Air Force Takes Delivery of First Boeing P-8A Poseidon MPA
The RAF has taken delivery of the first of nine new maritime patrol aircraft. The fleet of P-8A Poseidon are to be stationed at RAF Lossiemouth on the Moray coast. Boeing is constructing the P-8As ... US Approves $4.5Bn Upgrade for Japan’s F-15Js
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Japan for the upgrade of up to ninety-eight (98) F-15J aircraft to a Japanese Super Intercept... Boeing Is MAXed Out on Smoking Guns
The name Mark Forkner is by now familiar to even relatively casual followers of the Boeing 737 MAX saga. Forkner is the former chief technical pilot who conducted a series of Grey Goose–addled Skype c... Denmark, Germany Receive Latest Versions of Leopard 2
MUNICH --- Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has handed the latest versions of the Leopard 2 over to Denmark and Germany. Frank Haun, Chairman of the Board of KMW, presented the symbolic keys of the first t... Chinese Set Sights on High-Tech Dominance: DoD
China aims to transition from producing inexpensive items to high-tech products, the director of the Defense Innovation Unit said. Imagine what the world would look like if China were setting stand... Russia Sends 8 Nuclear Subs into North Atlantic for Drill
At least eight nuclear-powered submarines sailed out from their homeports on the Kola Peninsula last week, the Norwegian military intelligence [told] NRK. The aim of the massive operation is to get... Rheinmetall Wins €210M Air-Defense Order
Rheinmetall has won an order from an international customer for state-of-the-art air defence systems. The contract, which is now official, is worth a total of around €210 million. Delivery is to be co... China Says Frequent Public Exposure of J-20 Shows Rise in Confidence
The frequent public appearances of the Chinese Air Force's most advanced fight jet, the J-20, in October proves the Air Force's increasing confidence in the warplane, experts said on Tuesday. The P... Norway Welcomes F-35 Cost Reduction
A new agreement between the F-35 multinational program office and aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin means that the unit price for the Norwegian F-35 fighter jets will fall by about 10 percent. ... Babcock Confirms Bid for Australian Special Forces Helicopters
Babcock Australasia (Babcock) will bid to support the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) Special Operations Helicopter capability. The contract is part of the LAND 2097 Phase 4 Project and involves prov... Air Premia to Buy Five Boeing 787 Dreamliners
HONG KONG --- Boeing and Air Premia today announced the Korean startup airline plans to buy five 787-9 Dreamliner airplanes, following an agreement to lease three 787-9 jets from Air Lease Corporation... Cubic GATR Wins $325M for Next-Gen Troposcatter Systems
Cubic GATR Technologies Inc., Huntsville, Alabama, is awarded a $325,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the purchase of up to a maximum 172 Next-Generation ... BAE Wins $120M Order for 30 Amphibious Combat Vehicles
BAE Systems Land & Armaments LP, Sterling Heights, Michigan, is awarded a $119,938,228 modification to exercise options for the fixed-price-incentive (firm target) and firm-fixed price contract line i... HII Floods Drydock of Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. --- Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) marked another milestone leading up to the christening of the second Ford-class aircraft carrier as Huntington Ingalls Indus... Bangladesh Orders Leonardo Air Surveillance Radar
ROME --- The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) has ordered Leonardo’s KRONOS LAND radar to provide air surveillance, allowing operators to detect and track targets in tactical environments. Leonardo has anno... Elbit Selected for Swiss Software-Defined Radio Program
HAIFA, Israel --- Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that following extensive testing by Federal Office for Defense Procurement (Armasuisse) and the Swiss Armed Forces, the Company was selected by the... CBO: Prospects for DoD’s Acquisition Budget Over the Next Decade
Presentation by David Mosher, CBO’s Assistant Director for National Security, at the Professional Services Council’s Vision Conference 2019. CBO projects that the costs of implementing the Departme... Uzbekistan Seems to Have Procured Additional AS532s
The Uzbek Air Force appears to have placed a second order for AS532 helicopters from Airbus. Over the past year, the Uzbek military seems to have introduced new AS532 helicopters into service, sugg... US Army Tests New Unmanned Aircraft System
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. --- The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center's newly acquired unmanned aircraft system took to the skies for its first formal set of survey flights Oct. 1. The tests were a ste... US Air Force: Comparison of Alternative Force Structures
Section 1064 of the fiscal year (FY) 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) mandated three separate studies of the Air Force’s current and future force structure. The law specified that th... Dutch NH90s to Be Upgraded with Hostile Fire Indicator System
DRESDEN, Germany --- In 2012, Terma completed a study program for Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) to identify the best possible way of protecting the NH90 aircraft against IR seeking missiles. ... Update on National Commission on Military Aviation Safety
PATUXENT RIVER, Md. --- Created by the John McCain National Defense Authorization Act of 2019, a committee of eight aviation and transportation safety experts have been tasked with identifying the cau... US Air Force to Streamline Cyber Weapon Systems
SAN ANTONIO, Texas --- Leaders from the 16th Air Force, also known as Air Force Cyber, recently launched an initiative to streamline its cyber weapon systems tools called “12N12.” Launched on July ... F-35 Block 4 Upgrade to Include GSTAR Anti-Jam Receiver
OWEGO, N.Y. --- Lockheed Martin received a $25 million initial contract award for engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) for the GPS Spatial Temporal Anti-Jam Receiver (GSTAR) system that wil... USAF Completes Procurement of Deployable ILS
HANSCOM AFB, Mass. --– A team in the Digital Directorate here recently completed production orders of a system that vastly improves warfighters’ abilities to land in austere environments and low-visib... Lockheed Wins Second EW Contract for E-2D Hawkeye
OWEGO, N.Y.--- Lockheed Martin was awarded a second Multi-Year contract for AN/ALQ-217 Electronic Support Measure (ESM) systems for the U.S. Navy’s E-2D aircraft program. The five-year $50.9M Multi-Y... Lockheed to Provide Enhanced EW Capabilities for Helicopters
OWEGO, N.Y. ---- Under terms of a recent contract, Lockheed Martin will provide the U.S. Army and foreign military customers additional electronic warfare systems that enable faster detection and iden... Russia Donates Military Equipment to Tajikistan
Russian servicemen donated a batch of military equipment and weapons to the Republic of Tajikistan army, the total value of which is about 320 million rubles. The ceremony took place in Dushanbe at th... Russia Doubles Firepower of Military Base in Armenia
The combat potential of the 102 Russian military base, which is deployed on the territory of Armenia, will almost double after rearmament with new and modernized models of weapons and military equipme... Australian Businesses Win More Work on F-35 Program
A Western-Sydney based company has picked up more work in the global F-35 program, off the back of a stepped-up campaign from the Morrison Government. Quickstep has been awarded 10 new composite pa... Russia, Serbia Conclude “Slavic Shield” Air Defense Exercise
The closing ceremony of the joint Slavic Shield-2019 air defence exercises was held at the Batajnica Serbian airbase. The manoeuvres were held in two stages. The first stage was held in September t... Netherlands MoD Opens New NH90 Training Facility in Den Helder
SESTO CALENDE, Italy --- Rotorsim, the joint venture owned equally by CAE and Leonardo, today announced the successful start of training on the NH90 Full Mission Flight Trainer (FMFT) following its re... Sikorsky, Rheinmetall Plan CH-53K Helicopter Center at Leipzig
LEIPZIG, Germany --- To support Germany’s "Schwerer Transporthubschrauber" (STH) heavy lift helicopter program, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and Rheinmetall announced today that they intend to... Ariane 6 Facility in Bremen Inaugurated
ArianeGroup has officially inaugurated the integration hall for the Ariane 6 upper stages in Bremen in the presence of Ms. Sarah Ryglewski, Secretary of State to the German Ministry of Finance (BMF), ... | 
