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July 21, 2020  

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Seven More UK Companies Join Britain’s Next-Gen Tempest Fighter Project
Seven new companies will collaborate with Team Tempest, the pioneering alliance delivering cutting edge technology for a new generation of combat air power. Launched in 2018, Team Tempest is a grou

Space X Launches South Korean Military Satellite
On Monday, July 20 at 5:00 p.m., SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the ANASIS-II mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Falcon 9’s first stage previo

US Air Force to Receive Turkish F-35s Under Latest $862M Contract Award
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded an $861,731,778 modification (P00040) to previously-awarded fixed-price incentive (firm target), firm-fixed-price

 


Seven new British companies have joined the original four members of the Tempest project, in which the UK says it is investing £1.9 billion to develop the next generation combat aircraft intended to replace the Typhoon in the late 2030s. (BAE image)
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Seven More UK Companies Join Britain’s Next-Gen Tempest Fighter Project
Seven new companies will collaborate with Team Tempest, the pioneering alliance delivering cutting edge technology for a new generation of combat air power. Launched in 2018, Team Tempest is a grou...

Space X Launches South Korean Military Satellite
On Monday, July 20 at 5:00 p.m., SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the ANASIS-II mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Falcon 9’s first stage previo...

US Air Force to Receive Turkish F-35s Under Latest $862M Contract Award
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded an $861,731,778 modification (P00040) to previously-awarded fixed-price incentive (firm target), firm-fixed-price ...

India to Receive First Five Rafale Fighters on July 29
The first batch of five Indian Air Force (IAF) Rafale is likely to arrive in India by end July 2020. The aircraft will be inducted at Air Force Station Ambala on 29 July subject to weather. No med...

US Combat Aviation Brigade Prepares to Deploy to Middle East
Despite challenges presented by COVID-19, soldiers with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard's 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade mobilized from their home stations to Fort Hood, Texas, to pre...

Rising Pressures Cloud Optimistic F-35 Sales Outlook: Report
Lockheed Martin has marketed the F-35 successfully to 14 countries over nearly 20 years. Subtracting Turkey’s canceled program for 100 jets, Lockheed still boasts commitments from 13 countries to buy ...

China Expands Amphibious Forces in Challenge to US Supremacy
HONG KONG --- China launched its military build-up in the mid-1990s with a top priority: keep the United States at bay in any conflict by making the waters off the Chinese coast a death trap. Now, Chi...

Lockheed in Talks to Compensate Pentagon for Flawed F-35 Parts
WASHINGTON --- Lockheed Martin Corp. has agreed to compensate the Pentagon over parts it provided for the F-35 jet that weren’t ready to install and is in negotiations with the Defense Department over...

Rolls-Royce to Power Bell V-280 Valor in US Army’s FLRAA Competition
Rolls-Royce has reached agreement with Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, to provide the propulsion system for the V-280 Valor aircraft as it moves forward in the competition for the U.S. Army...

Collins Aerospace Wins BAE Tempest Actuator Contract
WOLVERHAMPTON, U.K. --- Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of Raytheon Technologies Corp., today announced it has been awarded a contract by BAE Systems to provide advanced actuation capabilities inclu...

General Atomics Selected for US Army’s Digital Guided Missile Program
SAN DIEGO, CA. --- General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that it has been selected as a prime contractor for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Avi...

US, Japanese Navies in Minehunting Exercise Off Northern Japan
OKINAWA, Japan --- Mine warfare forces from the U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) started Mine Warfare Exercise (MIWEX) 2JA 2020 off the coast of northern Japan, July 20. “Wor...

Nimitz Carrier Group Exercises with Indian Navy
INDIAN OCEAN --- The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, consisting of flagship USS Nimitz (CVN 68), Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59) and Arleigh Burke-class guided missile dest...

BAE Wins $495M for the Instrumentation Range Support
BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services Inc., Rockville, Maryland, has been awarded a $495,482,136 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-reimbursable indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quan...

DRS Wins $190M for Counter-UAV System
DRS Sustainment Systems Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, was awarded an $189,828,895 hybrid (cost-no-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price) contract for development, production, deployment and support ...

DRS Wins $120M for DAIRCM Aircraft Protection Systems
ARLINGTON, VA --- Leonardo DRS, Inc. announced today that it has received a contract from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command to provide engineering design and test hardware for AN/AAQ-45 Distributed A...

New Royal Marines Unit to Shape the Future Commando Force
A select group of commandos will form a new Vanguard Strike Company to shape how the Royal Marines Commandos of the future will operate around the globe. These trailblazers will have access to game...

New Artillery Munition Tested in Onera Wind Tunnel
From 25 May to 8 June 2020, Nexter Munitions carried out two major test campaigns of the KATANA ammunition in the S3MA wind tunnel at ONERA's Modane site. The 155mm KATANA technical team successfu...

Pakistani Navy Commissions Romanian-Built Corvette
Induction ceremony of state of the art Corvette, PNS YARMOOK held at PN Dockyard, Khi. The Chief Guest, CNS Adm Zafar Mahmood Abbasi termed the induction as imp milestone for PN & said that PNS YA...

First Class of Chinese Pilots Graduate on JL-10 Jet Trainers
BEIJING --- The first batch of pilot cadets trained with JL-10, a new type of advanced jet trainer, all graduated with excellent performance from the Shijiazhuang Flight Academy under the PLA Air Forc...

US Deploys Several B-1 Bombers to Guam
ELLSWORTH AFB, S.D. --- More than 150 Airmen from a variety of career fields and several B-1B Lancers from Ellsworth returned to the Indo-Pacific region July 17 to conduct Bomber Task Force operations...

BEML Wins Indian Army Order for T-90 Mine Ploughs
With an aim to boost ‘Make in India’ initiative of the Government, with the approval of Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh, Acquisition Wing of Ministry of Defence (MoD), has today signed a Contract wit...

German Air Force Reinforces Patrolling of the Baltic Airspace
The Baltic airspace is protected by a German Eurofighter detachment that strengthen the Baltic Air Policing Mission conducted from Šiauliai. The German Air Force detachment from the Tactical Fighter W...

Northrop Taps Epirus for Electromagnetic Pulse C-UAS Weapon System
MCLEAN, Va.--- Northrop Grumman Corporation has formed a strategic supplier agreement with Epirus, Inc. to offer the company’s Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) capability as a component of Northrop Grumman...

Safran Details Role in Boeing EcoDemonstrator Project
VELIZY, France --- Safran Landing Systems is accelerating innovation in landing gear noise attenuation as part of Boeing’s 2020 ecoDemonstrator. This program utilizes commercial aircraft to test techn...


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