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Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant Helicopter Completes Maiden Flight

March 22, 2019 @ 08:23 AM

Sikorsky Boeing SB-1 Defiant helicopter completed its first maiden flight at Sikorsky's West Palm Beach, Florida site on Thursday. The aircraft, developed by Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, and Boeing, will help inform the next generation of military helicopters as part of the United States (US) Army's Future Vertical Lift program, the company said in a statement
Ukraine Tests Turkish Bayraktar TB2 Combat Drones

March 21, 2019 @ 10:07 AM

Ukraine carried out tests of the Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 combat drones on Wednesday. The tests were carried out in western Khmelnytskyi region, overlooked by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
US Likely To Stop delivery Of F-35s To Turkey

March 21, 2019 @ 09:19 AM

The United States (US) may stop the delivery of fifth-generation F-35 multirole jet to Turkey if Ankara persists on buying Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems. It would be the strongest signal yet by Washington that Ankara cannot have both the US-made advanced aircraft and Russias S-400 air defense system,
Pak To Purchase Long-Range “Rainbow” Combat Drones: Report

March 21, 2019 @ 08:17 AM

Pakistan is eyeing to purchase Chinese long-range Rainbow CH-4 and CH5 drones. It is the first time that the country is acquiring a long-range drone
US Navy To Upgrade Arleigh Burke Destroyers With Scaled Version Of Raytheon’s...

March 21, 2019 @ 07:54 AM

The United States (US) Navy has planned to upgrade its fleet of Arleigh Burke destroyers with Raytheons Spy-6 air and missile defense radar. The radars will be replacing Spy-1D arrays on the Flight IIA destroyers, improving the destroyers radar sensitivity
USAF to Acquire 10 Additional Boeing F-15Xs, 6 Fewer Lockheed F-35s In...

March 20, 2019 @ 07:25 AM

The United States Air Force (USAF) will purchase 18 Boeing F-15X upgraded jets up from 8; and 48 Lockheed Martin F-35 jets down from 54 annually, according to its new five-year defense hardware procurement plan announced Monday. Starting next year, the USAF plans to procure 18 F-15X jets for $7
India Test-fires Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM)

March 16, 2019 @ 10:50 AM

India test-fired its home-made Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM) in the Pokhran region of Rajasthan, on Thursday. “In both the missions, the missiles hit the designated targets precisely at different ranges
Raytheon Wins $402 Million to Provide Additional Three An/SPY-6 Radar to US...

March 15, 2019 @ 11:19 AM

Raytheon has won $402.6 million modification contract to exercise options for Air and Missile Defense Radar Program (AMDR) low-rate initial production (LRIP)
Northrop Grumman to Build Poland's Air, Missile Defence Battle Command System

March 15, 2019 @ 10:56 AM

The United States army has awarded $713 million contract to Northrop Grumman for the production of Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) for the first phase of Polands WISŁA air and missile defense program. “IBCS is the future of multi-domain operations and with it, Poland will have a system to modernize its integrated air and missile defense capabilities,” said Dan Verwiel, vice president and general manager, missile defense and protective systems, Northrop Grumman Thursday
Lockheed Martin Wins $507 Million Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Contract Modification

March 15, 2019 @ 08:21 AM

Lockheed Martin has won $507 million modification contract for incidental services, hardware, facilities, equipment, and all technical, planning, management, manufacturing, and testing efforts to produce Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target Advanced Capability-3 missiles. Work is expected to be completed by Dec

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