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US Tests Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon

US Tests Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon

DARPA, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force, completed a free flight test of its Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) last week. The missile, built by Raytheon Technologies, was released from an aircraft seconds before its Northrop Grumman scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) engine k…
Navantia Shortlisted to Provide CMS for Polish Frigates

Navantia Shortlisted to Provide CMS for Polish Frigates

Navantia has moved to the next stage in the tender for the supply of the combat management system (CMS) for future frigates of the Polish Navy, along with three other contenders.

Navantia has been shortlisted as a potential partner of the PGZ-MIECZNIK consortium for the development of the Combat …

India Tests Improved Akash Air-Defense Missile

India Tests Improved Akash Air-Defense Missile

A new version of the Akash Missile – ‘Akash Prime’ – has been successfully flight tested from Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur, Odisha on 27 September 2021. The missile intercepted and destroyed an unmanned aerial target mimicking enemy aircrafts, in its maiden flight test after improvements.
Boeing Tanker Hit New Setback on Stray Plastic Cap in Fuel Line

Boeing Tanker Hit New Setback on Stray Plastic Cap in Fuel Line

Deliveries of Boeing Co.’s troubled KC-46 tanker were halted for about a month earlier this year after Air Force and company inspectors found a red plastic cap lodged in a fuel valve that caused the uncontrolled flow of fuel from a one tank into another.

Tanker deliveries resumed after the previo…

Pentagon Awards $214M for New V-22 Flight Control System

Pentagon Awards $214M for New V-22 Flight Control System

Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $214,394,944 cost-plus-incentive-fee order (N0001921F0327) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001917G0002).

This order provides for the redesign and development of the V-22 Flight Control System, to include the …

Canada Confronts Replacement of Submarine Capabilities

Canada Confronts Replacement of Submarine Capabilities

OTTAWA, ON — If Canada wants to respond to the threat posed by a rising China’s naval power, contribute to the defence of itself and its allies, and acquire the patrol and surveillance capabilities needed to assert our sovereignty in the Arctic and along our coastlines, submarines are not a luxury…
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