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Royal Navy Carrier Sails on Exercise with RAF and Marine Corps F-35Bs
HMS Queen Elizabeth has embarked the largest number of warplanes ever onto her deck as she prepares to take her place at the heart of a UK-led NATO Carrier Strike Group. Two squadrons of F-35B stea

Further Delay Seen in F-35 Operational Evaluation
Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 has deployed from the Gulf of Aden to Alaska and is coveted by would-be buyers led by the United Arab Emirates. But the simulated combat testing needed to tell how well it

Poland Short-Lists Four in Pegaz Armored Vehicle Competition
At the 28th MSPO International Defence Industry Exhibition in Kielce, Poland, the Polish Ministry of Defense down-selected four out of 12 multipurpose armored vehicles for the next stage of the Pegaz

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Royal Navy Carrier Sails on Exercise with RAF and Marine Corps F-35Bs
HMS Queen Elizabeth has embarked the largest number of warplanes ever onto her deck as she prepares to take her place at the heart of a UK-led NATO Carrier Strike Group. Two squadrons of F-35B stea...

Further Delay Seen in F-35 Operational Evaluation
Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 has deployed from the Gulf of Aden to Alaska and is coveted by would-be buyers led by the United Arab Emirates. But the simulated combat testing needed to tell how well it...

Poland Short-Lists Four in Pegaz Armored Vehicle Competition
At the 28th MSPO International Defence Industry Exhibition in Kielce, Poland, the Polish Ministry of Defense down-selected four out of 12 multipurpose armored vehicles for the next stage of the Pegaz ...

China Says Its Two Aircraft Carriers Complete Exercises, Trials
The two aircraft carriers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, the Liaoning and the Shandong, have recently completed regular exercises and sea trials respectively, China's Ministry of ...

Finland, Norway and Sweden Enhance Trilateral Military Operations
We are living in unpredictable times with new challenges and threats contributing to a sense of uncertainty in our societies. We are witnessing an increasingly challenging security situation both glob...

Ukrainian MiG-29s and Su-27s Escort B-52 Bomber over Black Sea
B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers from the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, operating out of RAF Fairford, England, participated in a U.S. Air Forces in Europe led multi-domain...

US Army Chinook Flies with GE Aviation T408 Engine
FORT EUSTIS, Va. --- The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center achieved its first flight of a Chinook with GE Aviation’s T408 engines, a milestone that could expa...

Dutch MoD Extends Rheinmetall Ammo Deal Worth Up to €500M
Rheinmetall and the Dutch procurement agency Defence Materiel Organization (DMO) have renewed and expanded their longstanding framework agreement for the supply of various types of ammunition for a pe...

GA-ASI to Upgrade MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Aircraft for ANG
SAN DIEGO --- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has been awarded a $13.5 million contract to upgrade MQ-9 Block 1 and Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft for the Air National Guard (AN...

Saab Receives Order for Components for US Marines’ GATOR Radar
Saab has received a 36.7 million USD order for the U.S. Marine Corps’ AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar G/ATOR. Saab received the order from Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, the prime cont...

USAF Orders Cougar MRAPs to Clear Runways of Unexploded Bombs
Parsons Government Services Inc., Huntsville, Alabama, has been awarded a $39,934,030 contract for the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Recovery of Airbase Denied by Ordnance (RADBO) vehicle. ...

Ukraine Among Participants in Combined Resolve Exercise in Germany
HOHENFELS, Germany --- NATO allies and partner countries will test the readiness of the U.S Army Soldiers during the Combined Resolve XIV exercise held in Hohenfels Training Area in September. The exe...

Marine Corps Fields First New Service Pistol in 35 Years
QUANTICO, Va. --- For the first time since former President Ronald Reagan’s Administration, the Marine Corps is fielding a new service-wide pistol replacement. Marine Corps Systems Command began fi...

Virtual Rapid-Prototyping Aims to Provide Fast Solutions
CRANE, Ind. --- Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) led its first virtual Warfighter Driven Challenge (WDC) event to provide rapid prototype solutions for sailors and marines on ...

Advanced Battle Management System Accelerates Data-Sharing, Decision-Making
NELLIS AFB, Nev. --- The 805th Combat Training Squadron, also known as the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis (ShOC-N) participated in the most recent Air Force Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) O...

UK’s Joint Network Management System Reaches Initial Operating Capability
Following final installation of the Thales Joint Network Management System (JNMS), the Interim Operational Capability (IOC) Site Acceptance Test (SAT) event was conducted simultaneously across the UK ...

Airbus Reaches 463 On-Time Delivery of UH-72 Lakota to US Army
It was a day of celebration when the U.S. Army announced the selection of Airbus’ (then American Eurocopter’s) helicopter as its new light utility aircraft of choice to replace the UH-1H Iroquois and ...

US Army-Funded Research May Enable Drones to Run on Any Type of Fuel
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. --- The U.S. Army recently awarded the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign an $8 million, four-year cooperative agreement to develop key technologies that may allow th...

Rostec Starts Assembling First Mi-171A3 Offshore Helicopter
MOSCOW --- Russian Helicopters holding company (part of Rostec State Corporation) started production of the first pre-production prototype of Mi-171A3 offshore helicopter. Flight tests of the state-of...

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