Yearly Archive: 2022

The Chinese military held a major exercise to prove how the People’s Liberation Army Navy could use large civilian ferries to launch a massive amphibious invasion of Taiwan.

The PLAN brought amphibious landing craft to a Chinese beach near the Taiwan Strait, according to Aug. 31 satellite imagery…

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The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded a $47,468,000 firm-fixed-price advance acquisition contract for the production and delivery of MQ-25 Stingray low-rate initial production lot 1 for the U.S. Navy.

Work will be performed in Torrance, California (36%); McKinney, Texas (19%); St. Loui…

Norway’s Minister of Defence, Bjørn Arild Gram, confirmed at the 11 August donor conference for Ukraine, in Copenhagen, that Norway will contribute to training of Ukrainian soldiers in Great Britain.

“The Ukrainian forces need additional training and education. Norway will contribute instructors …

The US Navy is attempting to rapidly deliver five Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (XLUUV) to the fleet for deploying undersea mines without the need for sailors. However, the XLUUV effort is at least $242 million or 64 percent over its original cost estimate and at least 3 years late.

The…

Boeing’s stock has lagged the S&P 500 by ~5.5% in the last week. We view the move as largely beta- and market-driven and unrelated to any new developments. We see China and MAX 10 risks as potentially overdone at these levels given demand for the MAX ex these risks.

Pullback Largely Market Dri…