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Huntington Ingalls, 5 Others Win US Navy’s $2.45B C4ISR Systems Contract

July 23, 2019 @ 10:48 AM

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) is among the six companies to have won the US Navys $2.45 billion contract to provide installation services for their command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems
Huntington Ingalls’ “Tripoli” Amphibious Assault Ship Completes Builder’s Trials

July 23, 2019 @ 10:22 AM

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)s newly built “Tripoli” amphibious assault ship (LHA 7) has completed builders trials, the company announced Monday. The second ship in the America-class spent four days at sea in the Gulf of Mexico, testing the ships main propulsion, combat and other systems before returning to HIIs Ingalls Shipbuilding division
South Korea To Build Ship That Can Double Up As Carrier For...

July 23, 2019 @ 09:38 AM

South Korea is set to launch a new project to build a ship on which short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) aircraft such as the F-35B stealth jets it is seeking to buy, can be operated. The decision to build the carrier-type vessel, expected to be operational by late 2020s, was taken on July 12
Bulgaria To Axe Defense Procurement Projects, Increase Budget Deficit to Finance $1.25B...

July 22, 2019 @ 10:07 AM

The Bulgarian parliament on Friday approved the purchase of 8 F-16 Block 70 fighter jets worth $1.25 Billion (2
Naval Su-57 Stealth Jet Likely for New Russian Aircraft Carrier

July 10, 2019 @ 12:37 PM

Russia has started working on the concept of a new non-nuclear aircraft carrier that will house a future naval version of the Su-57 Stealth fighter jet. “The new concept of a non-nuclear aircraft carrier for the Russian Navy provides for over 40 aircraft, jets and sea drones to be placed on it,” Pavel Filippov, director general of Krylov State Research Centre said in an interview to Sputnik
US Awards Lockheed $348M for F-35 Tooling, Test Support

July 3, 2019 @ 06:51 AM

Lockheed Martin has won a $348 million modification contract for production non-recurring, special tooling and special test equipment in support of initial production Lot 12 F-35 Lightning II aircraft for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, non-US Department of Defense (DoD) partners and foreign military sales (FMS) customers. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather, stealth, fifth-generation, multirole combat aircraft
Pratt & Whitney gets $2.3 Billion Contract to supply 233 Engines for

June 1, 2019 @ 06:30 AM

In one of the biggest engine orders to date, Pratt and Whitney has been awarded $3,239,028,961 for the production and delivery of 233 propulsion systems that will go into F-35 stealth fighter jets meant for US forces and international customers. The contract which is a modification to a previous contract, provides for the production and delivery of 56 F135-PW-100 propulsion systems for the United States Air Force; 10 F135-PW-100 propulsion systems for the Navy; 24 F135-PW-600 propulsion systems for the Marine Corps; 125 F135-PW-100 and 18 F135-PW-600 propulsion systems for non-Department of Defense (DoD) participants and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers,,...
Trump Has Crossed a Line by Stepping Abroad Japanese Helicopter Carrier: China

May 29, 2019 @ 07:39 AM

President Donald Trump who inspected the helicopter Carrier, Kaga which is planned to be modified to house the F-35B Stealth fighters, has Chinese experts claiming that the move indicates his acquiescence of Japan's military ambitions and may trigger a new arms race. Accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump inspected the Kaga at the Maritime Self-Defense Force base in Yokosuka on Tuesday as part of his visit to Japan, the first time a US president has stepped aboard a Self-Defense Force ship, Japan's Kyodo News reported
Contracts Awarded to Build The $5B US-Mexico Border Wall

May 10, 2019 @ 09:20 AM

A controversial wall project worth $5 billion to stem the flow of illegal migrants into the United States from along its southern border with Mexico has taken off with the US DoD awarding contracts on Thursday to commence the construction of the wall. The contract includes design-build and design-bid-build projects of horizontal construction task orders, the US DoD said in a statement Thursday
US Air Force, Navy To Not Jointly Develop Navy's Next Gen Fighters

May 9, 2019 @ 11:39 AM

The US Air Force and Navy will not jointly develop next generation of fighters for the US Navy, a Navy official has said. Unlike the F-35, which has variants for each military branch, the Navy does not intend to use the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft in penetration missions of highly contested airspace

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