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February 01, 2022  

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Boeing Launches 777-8 Freighter with $20Bn Qatari Order for 50
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Boeing today launched the new 777-8 Freighter and expanded its market-leading 777X and freighter families of jetliners with an order for up to 50 aircraft from one of the world’s

Lockheed Details New Airbus-based Bid for USAF Tanker Competition
BETHESDA, Md. --- Lockheed Martin leaders announced today the LMXT strategic tanker aircraft will be manufactured in Mobile, Alabama, and Marietta, Georgia. Introduced in September 2021, the LMXT is L

Egypt Orders South Korean K9 Self-Propelled Guns in $1.7 Bn Deal
SEOUL --- South Korea on Tuesday signed a contract to sell K9 self-propelled howitzers to Egypt in a deal worth over 2 trillion won (US$1.65 billion), Seoul's arms procurement agency said, marking the

 


In a blow to Airbus, Qatar Airways is investing $20 billion in Boeing’s 777-8 freighter program, ordering 34 aircraft with options on 16 more, $7 bn in their engines and another $7 bn to order 25 Boeing 737MAX-10 jets with options on 25 more. (Boeing photo)


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Boeing Launches 777-8 Freighter with $20Bn Qatari Order for 50
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Boeing today launched the new 777-8 Freighter and expanded its market-leading 777X and freighter families of jetliners with an order for up to 50 aircraft from one of the world’s ...

Lockheed Details New Airbus-based Bid for USAF Tanker Competition
BETHESDA, Md. --- Lockheed Martin leaders announced today the LMXT strategic tanker aircraft will be manufactured in Mobile, Alabama, and Marietta, Georgia. Introduced in September 2021, the LMXT is L...

Egypt Orders South Korean K9 Self-Propelled Guns in $1.7 Bn Deal
SEOUL --- South Korea on Tuesday signed a contract to sell K9 self-propelled howitzers to Egypt in a deal worth over 2 trillion won (US$1.65 billion), Seoul's arms procurement agency said, marking the...

High Alert: NATO Sends Troops, Warplanes Eastern Europe
LONDON --- NATO member states are sending thousands of troops, warplanes and ships to allies in eastern Europe as tensions with Russia escalate over Moscow's deployment of more than 100,000 troops to ...

Sikorsky Wins $818M Contracts for CH-53K Production
-- Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a Lockheed Martin Co., Stratford, Connecticut, is awarded a $684,950,963 fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification (P00006) to a previously awarded contract (N000192...

Newcomer Aims to Bid for USAF Tanker Contract with Converted Boeing 777s
A third company will offer a tanker to the US Air Force when the KC-Y Request for Proposal is issued this year. Kansas Modification Center (KMC) and the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR)...

US Demands Russia Explain its Troop Buildup on Ukraine Border
The United States and Russia faced off Monday at the United Nations Security Council over Washington's accusations that Moscow is planning a large-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, which the Krem...

Sweden Offers Slovakia a Package of 152 CV90 Tracked IFVs
The Slovak Ministry of Defense will procure 152 combat vehicles to modernize its army. FMV has submitted an offer together with BAE Systems Hägglunds which includes the Swedish-made combat vehicle CV9...

F-15EX Eagle Fires Missile for the First Time During Live-Fire Test
TYNDALL AFB, Fla. --- Flying over the Gulf of Mexico, the Air Force’s newest fighter, the F-15EX Eagle II, successfully fired an AIM-120D missile Jan. 25. The 40th Flight Test Squadron aircrew and ...

Lockheed Wins $1.4 Bn for C-130J Sustainment
The Lockheed Martin Corp., Marietta, Georgia, has been awarded a $1,420,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the C-130J mission sustainment support effort. This contract pr...

US Recognizes Qatar as ‘Major Non-NATO Ally’
During a meeting today with Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, President Joe Biden indicated plans to nominate Qatar as a "major non-NATO ally" for the United States. The designation will ch...

General Dynamics Wins $518M Global IT Logistics Contract
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-- – General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics, announced today that it has received a $518 million task order award from the U.S. Army Commu...

British Army Details Plans for Challenger 3 Tank Upgrade
As the International Armoured Vehicles conference in London comes to an end, it is worth considering how far technology has come, where it is going, and how the British Army are exploiting innovation ...

Fincantieri Delivers First of Two OPVs to Qatar
TRIESTE, Italy --- The delivery of the first-in-class OPV – Offshore Patrol Vessel – “Musherib”, ordered to Fincantieri by the Qatari Ministry of Defence within the national naval acquisition program,...

Swiss Arms Agency Revamps Rules for F-35, Patriot Offset Business
The aim of offsets is to strengthen the technological and industrial base of the security sector. Armasuisse will improve the monitoring and transparency of offsetting business. The measures stem from...

Russian Baltic Fleet Coastal Missile Crews Rehearse Launches
Crews of the Bal coastal missile systems performed electronic missile launches during the training. Crews of missile systems in the course of performing a combat training mission made a march to th...

Raytheon Delivers New Intelligence Analysis Capability to IARPA
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --- Raytheon BBN has developed a new capability to search text and speech from low-resource languages using English search terms. The tool was developed and demonstrated over four yea...

Future USS Fort Lauderdale Completes Acceptance Trials
The future USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28), the Navy’s 12th San Antonio class-amphibious transport dock ship, completed Acceptance trials, Jan. 31. Acceptance trials consist of integrated testing to d...

US, French Navy Chiefs Discuss Interoperability, Partnership
WASHINGTON --- U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday met with his counterpart Chief of the French Navy Adm. Pierre Vandier at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 31. The two leader...

Collins Demos Air Launched Effects for US Army’s Future Vertical Lift Program
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. --- Collins Aerospace has successfully demonstrated a ready-now Mission Systems solution to support the operations of Air Launched Effects (ALE) from Army Aviation’s Enduring and Futu...

Airborne 22: US, Japan Test Paratroop Interoperability
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan --- The 374th Airlift Wing supported Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers assigned to the 1st Airborne Brigade in operation Airborne 22, Jan. 25–26. Airborne 22 is the la...

Airbus Team Wins Two ESA Laser-Communication Projects
The past years have seen an unprecedented rise in the volume of data streams that circle the globe. Terrestrial communications infrastructure is quickly expanding worldwide to meet the ever-growing de...

Prototype of Russia’s Hypersonic Weapon Tested Back in 2014: TASS
MOSCOW --- Former Chief of Russia’s General Staff Army General Yuri Baluyevsky said that a prototype of a hypersonic weapon was tested in Russia back in 2004. "I draw your attention to 2018, when [...


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