Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur discussed Estonian-Latvian cooperation opportunities with his Latvian colleague Artis Pabriks on his first foreign visit to Riga today. In strengthening the defense capability of the region, the focus is on the joint procurement of medium-range air defense, the capabili…

Rolls-Royce will deliver a total of 523 MTU Series 199 engines for the Boxer Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV) for the British Armed Forces. The engines will be assembled, acceptance-tested and painted in the UK.

Rolls-Royce will deliver a total of 523 MTU Series 199 engines for the Boxer Mechani…

NAPLES, Italy — On Aug. 3, the U.S. Navy successfully recovered the F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW 1), embarked aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) that blew overboard due to unexpected heavy weather in the Mediterranean Sea July 8, 2022.

The aircraft was recove…

–General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO), San Diego, California, is awarded an $890,000,000 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-16-C-2229 for detail design and construction of fleet replenishment oilers T-AO 211 and 212.

Additionally, this contract modificat…

CHANTILLY, Va. — The National Reconnaissance Office launched a second mission, in less than a month, from New Zealand aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex-1 at Mahia Peninsula Aug. 4, 2022 at 1 a.m. EDT (5 a.m. UTC).

NROL-199 is the second of two missions in 2022 in partnersh…

BUCKLEY, Colo., — Following a successful launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today, the U.S. Space Force is now communicating with the sixth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO) -6 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin.

The final satellite in the…