Yearly Archive: 2020

How tight is Boeing Co. on cash? The planemaker is reportedly parting with a luxury mega-yacht it had kept around to wine and dine potential clients.

Boeing sold the 130-foot sea cruiser to an unidentified California property developer for $13 million, according to the Puget Sound Business Journ…

India and the US officially sealed the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-Spatial Cooperation (BECA) at the third “2 plus 2” dialogue between their foreign and defense ministers recently held in New Delhi, capital of India.

The two sides reviewed their cooperation in the communicat…

Airborne Tactical Advantage Co. LLC, Newport News, Virginia, is awarded a $441,583,013 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. This contract provides contractor-owned and operated Type III high subsonic and Type IV supersonic aircraft to Navy fleet customers for a wide v…

The Sub-Committee’s inquiry will scrutinise the vulnerabilities of the UK’s defence supply chain following the Covid-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on the impact on SMEs and mid-sized companies.

The Committee will assess the current level of foreign ownership, particularly ownership by comp…

BERLIN — In her recent op-ed for Politico, “Europe still needs America” (November 2), German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer argued that Europe should abandon “illusions” of strategic autonomy. Europeans, she wrote, “will not be able to replace America’s crucial role as a security prov…

This Whitehall Report examines Russian and Chinese combat air trends, and looks specifically at fast jets and their weapons systems and capabilities.

The Soviet Union, and latterly Russia, have been the source of both aerial and ground-based pacing threats to Western airpower since the end of the…