Monthly Archive: Aprile 2022

With Boeing F-15EX Eagle II procurement now doubled in the Pentagon’s FY23 defense budget request and F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) procurement substantially reduced, Teal Group’s Dr. David L. Rockwell sees BAE Systems’ new AN/ALQ-250 EPAWSS (Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivabi…

MIRABEL, Quebec — L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a 4-year, $482 million USD performance-based contract extension (PBC), with option years, to continue in-service support of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft fleet until its retirement that is currently esti…

RAMSTEIN, Germany –– During an Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) exercise in Sliač, Slovakia, from April, 19 to 21, 2022, Allies will train with the deployed PATRIOT missile defence system to enhance Alliance cohesion and interoperability.

The exercise will involve increasingly complex s…

After commissioning the road-mobile DF-21D and DF-26 anti-ship ballistic missiles, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) also has ship- and air-launched variants of such hypersonic weapons in its arsenal that can keep US carrier strike groups at a distance, foreign media recently reported.

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Today, on April 21, the Saeima supported the draft law “Amendments to the Law on the Financing of National Defense” developed by the Ministry of Defense, which envisages a gradual increase of funding for national defense to 2.5% of the projected gross domestic product over the next three years.

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HANSCOM AFB, Mass. — Hanscom personnel recently completed the purchase of a new aircraft in support of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, or BACN, program.

BACN program management office personnel made the purchase of the Green Global 6000 through an execution of the $464.8 million c…