Yearly Archive: 2022

BAE Wins $154M for US Navy Engineering Services

BAE Wins $154M for US Navy Engineering Services

BAE Systems has been awarded a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract worth up to $154 million to continue supporting the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Webster Outlying Field.

Under the contract awarded in November, BAE Systems will support the rapid integration and su…

Ariane 6 First Stages on their Way to Kourou for Extended Tests

Ariane 6 First Stages on their Way to Kourou for Extended Tests

The Ariane 6 core stage and upper stage intended for the combined tests on the launch pad in French Guiana have left the ArianeGroup sites in Les Mureaux and Bremen and begun their journey to Europe’s Spaceport.

These stages will be integrated by ArianeGroup in the Launcher Assembly Building (BAL…

Unmanned Minehunting System Undergoes Underwater Explosion Test

Unmanned Minehunting System Undergoes Underwater Explosion Test

ABERDEEN, MD — The Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) announced the successful completion of underwater explosion (UNDEX) shock testing on the Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS), a component of the Navy’s suite of mine countermeasure technologies.

The test…

China Claims ‘Global Responsibility’ on Nuclear Weapons

China Claims ‘Global Responsibility’ on Nuclear Weapons

China had pushed forward a joint statement by the leaders of the five nuclear weapon states on preventing nuclear war and avoiding arms races issued on Monday by urging the others to join the reaffirmation that a nuclear war cannot be won and shall not be fought, after the process under the framewor…
F-35 Airframe Requires Hand-Painting to Maintain Stealth

F-35 Airframe Requires Hand-Painting to Maintain Stealth

HILL AFB –– How do you make a 51-foot-long, 35-foot-wide fighter jet undetectable? There’s no black magic that exists to make the F-35A Lightning II invisible, but it does have masking features which make it challenging to detect, track or target by radar with missiles or by an enemy aircraft. The …
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