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US Navy Orders New Advanced Sonobuoys

US Navy Orders New Advanced Sonobuoys

Ultra Electronics Holdings plc (ULE) and Sparton DLS, LLC announce the award of a contract valued at $11.6 million to their ERAPSCO joint venture, against the $222 million competitive Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) production contract for the manufacture of next-generation sonobuoys …
US Navy Takes Delivery of Latest Burke-class Destroyer

US Navy Takes Delivery of Latest Burke-class Destroyer

PASCAGOULA, Miss.— Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) departed from HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division on Friday. Frank E. Petersen Jr. will be commissioned next month in Charleston, South Carolina, before sailing to its homeport at Hawaii’s Joint Base Pe…
First Order of New Nordic Combat Uniform

First Order of New Nordic Combat Uniform

In February, four Nordic countries signed a joint framework agreement on the delivery of the Nordic Combat Uniform System, NCU. Now FMV has placed a first order for the new uniforms with final delivery during the second half of 2024.

For the Swedish part, the order includes 20,500 complete Europe…

Dutch Air Force to Begin MQ-9 Operations in Curacao

Dutch Air Force to Begin MQ-9 Operations in Curacao

SAN DIEGO — The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) has taken delivery of three MQ-9A Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) and two Mobile Ground Control Stations from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI).

The RNLAF will begin operating the MQ-9s later this month out of Curaca…

Turkish Drones Have Become a Symbol of Ukrainian Resistance

Turkish Drones Have Become a Symbol of Ukrainian Resistance

ISTANBUL, Turkey — “Those shiny tanks are being set ablaze — Bayraktar — that’s the new craze,” go the lyrics of a popular Ukrainian song dedicated to a drone that has become one of many symbols of the nation’s resistance.

The “Bayraktar” has become so popular that Ukrainians are now naming t…

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