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First A321XLR Development Aircraft Enters Final Assembly

First A321XLR Development Aircraft Enters Final Assembly

The very first A321XLR flight test aircraft, MSN11000, took a major step forward this week in becoming reality. This is the first of three planned development aircraft which will perform the flight testing and Type Certification programme — starting in 2022, to pave the way for series production an…
US Navy Awards $461M Contract to Maintain Undersea Test Center

US Navy Awards $461M Contract to Maintain Undersea Test Center

AMENTUM Services Inc., Germantown, Maryland, was awarded a $461,792,969 cost-plus-award-fee, cost reimbursement and firm-fixed-price contract for the operation and maintenance of the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC).

Work will be performed on Andros Island, Commonwealth of th…

CRS Updates Report on Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV)

CRS Updates Report on Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV)

The Army describes the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV), a tracked support vehicle, as follows: The Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) is the replacement for the M113 Family of Vehicles (FoV) within the Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT), comprising approximately 30% of its tracked vehicle fle…
Hindustan Aeronautics Testing Own Upgrade of Do-228 Aircraft

Hindustan Aeronautics Testing Own Upgrade of Do-228 Aircraft

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) had carried out a successful ground run and Low Speed Taxi Trials (LSTT) of a prototype Hindustan-228 aircraft, a potential commercial aircraft after Type Certification by Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), India.

HAL Kanpur carried out the 1st Engine Gr…

DOD Must Act Early to Extract Technology from Industrial Base

DOD Must Act Early to Extract Technology from Industrial Base

America’s technology companies make a lot of great products — but most of that is for the commercial market. If the Defense Department wants to get in on that product development cycle — and extract from it the things that are valuable to warfighters — then it must get in early and let technology co…
USAF F-16s in Saudi Arabia Train for Hot Pit Refueling

USAF F-16s in Saudi Arabia Train for Hot Pit Refueling

PRINCE SULTAN AB, Saudi Arabia — Airmen from the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron, Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, recently traveled to Prince Sultan Air Base to take part in an integrated hot-pit training with Airmen from the 378th EMXS.

Designed to expand the scope and lethality of the Air …

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