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Airbus Touts Role in Future Combat Air System

Airbus Touts Role in Future Combat Air System

When facing today’s uncertainties, air superiority, which was underpinning western military operations for over 40 years, is no longer a given thing. The playing field is levelled by opponents’ constant investment in integrated air defence systems, hypersonic weapon technologies and low observabilit…
Atlantic 2 Standard 6 MPA Advances Towards IOC

Atlantic 2 Standard 6 MPA Advances Towards IOC

As part of the operational evaluation (EVALOPS) of the modernized Atlantic 2 (ATL2) Standard 6, and despite the current health restrictions due to Covid-19, the ATL2 detachment from the Naval Aviation’s Center for Practical Experimentation and Reception (CEPA/10S) carried out several weeks of intens…
France Calls Out NATO Over ‘Turkey Problem’ as Alliance Meets

France Calls Out NATO Over ‘Turkey Problem’ as Alliance Meets

NATO defense ministers gathered amid a vocal argument between France and Turkey over a series of issues. France took issue with a naval incident in the Med, Turkey’s support for one side in Libya’s civil war, and more.

A French defense ministry official on Wednesday urged NATO to address its “Tur…

HII Wins $145M for LHA Long Lead Items

HII Wins $145M for LHA Long Lead Items

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is awarded $145,598,728 for a not-to-exceed, undefinitized contract action for long lead time material in support of one Amphibious Assault Ship (General Purpose) Replacement (LHA(R)) and Flight 1 Ship (LHA 9).

Work will be performed in Mil…

US Clears $600M Sale of Patrol Boats to Ukraine

US Clears $600M Sale of Patrol Boats to Ukraine

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Ukraine of up to sixteen (16) Mark VI Patrol Boats and related equipment for an estimated cost of $600 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required…
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