Category: Notizie Estero

Last week the Heritage Foundation released its annual “Index of Military Strength,” an exercise in threat inflation that argues for increases in the Pentagon’s already massive budget. The document, which could more accurately be called the “Index of Military Distortions,” gives low grades to the maj…

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Grand Prairie, Texas, was awarded a $243,066,376 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for long range fires technology development and demonstration.

Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each …

LIMA — “Russian Helicopters” Holding Company (part of Rostec State Corporation) has overhauled six Mi-17-1V military transport helicopters at Lima Peruvian Air Force base SEMAN in two years.

Maintenance work was carried out by the Novosibirsk Aircraft Repair Plant (NARP), part of “Russian Helic…

ARNOLD AFB, Tenn. — The Pratt & Whitney F135 engine, which powers the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, is back at Sea Level Test Cell 3, or SL-3, at Arnold Air Force Base for another round of accelerated mission testing, or AMT, to validate new hardware.

AMT provides a means to put engines through a …

BAE Systems has received a $26 million contract to equip the U.S. Navy’s Constellation class frigates with the fully-automatic 57mm Mk 110 naval gun.

The contract, awarded earlier this month, includes engineering support and calls for two Mk 110s for the USS Constellation (FFG 62) and USS Congres…

RAMSTEIN, Germany — F-16s and F-35s of the Royal Norwegian Air Force intercepted a large group of Russian bombers and fighters off the north coast of Norway, October 27.

The Russian group consisted of two BlackJack strategic bombers, MiG-31 Foxhounds and SU-24 Fencers fighters and a A-50 Mains…