Yearly Archive: 2022

Raytheon Missiles and Defense, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $217,121,769 fixed-price-incentive, firm-fixed-price contract. This contract procures 154 full-rate production Block V Tactical Tomahawk All Up Round Vertical Launch System missiles as follows: 70 for the Navy, 54 for the Marine Corps, and…

PATCH BARRACKS, Germany — Two blocks from a casino and Burger King is a medium-sized room covered with a blue carpet that until four months ago was occasionally used to welcome personnel starting their jobs at the U.S. European Command headquarters.

The fourth-floor room in the General Bernard …

BUCHAREST — Romania’s defence ministry aims to speed up the acquisition of 32 F-16 fighter aircraft from Norway and has received the necessary approvals to fly its Soviet-era MiG-21 jets for another year, after grounding them for two months following a crash.

“In the last two months, we have ac…

Lorenzo Guerini, the Italian Minister of Defence, had announced it last October, just after having signed the relevant Decree. Today, the much-awaited order has been eventually formalized: Piaggio Aerospace, the Italian aircraft manufacturer currently attending EBACE in Geneva (Switzerland), will pr…

GULF OF THAILAND — Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, Vice Admiral Karl Thomas presided over a ceremony to officially hand over the RQ-21A Unmanned Aircraft System to the Royal Thai Navy on May 24.

The RQ-21A Blackjack is an unmanned and unarmed aircraft system designed for maritime intelligence, surv…

UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters are part of a project to procure a total of four helicopters from the United States

Envoy of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia and Minister of Defense Mario Banožić will attend the UH-60M Black Hawk donation ceremony on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at the Col…