Yearly Archive: 2022

Only in the U.S. military would the wholesale junking of the key support system of the most expensive weapons system in the history of the world be cause for celebration. Yet that’s precisely what the Pentagon folks running the tri-service F-35 program did February 1.

“Maintenance milestone fo…

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a not-to-exceed $315,806,063 fixed-price incentive (firm target), cost-plus-incentive-fee, and cost-plus-fixed-fee, undefinitized modification (P00015) to a previously awarded contract (N0001920C0032).

This m…

BRUSSELS — The European Commission has asked France whether it authorised the sale of cyber-surveillance tech to Egypt — a country where reports of repression have become commonplace under president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

The inquiry was the subject of a 8 February letter written by European C…

The Swedish Armed Forces’ Materiel Administration has started upgrading the Armored Off-Road Vehicles 202 and 203, which were delivered to the Armed Forces in the early 2000s. A total of 168 vehicles will undergo extensive work that will make them operational for another 20 years.

Work on the u…

The budget of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic in 2022 will manage expenditures in the amount of CZK 88.145 billion. The final amount was reflected in the need to reflect in the state budget the real economic situation of the state.

In this way, the Ministry of Defense, as a regul…

LANGLEY, Va — The Air Force reached initial operating capability on its latest infrared search and track pod integrated on the F-15C Eagle, Jan. 21, 2022.

The IRST pod, known as the Legion Pod, is a sensor that uses the infrared spectrum to help pilots to track and engage enemy aircraft in en…