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Boeing Launches 777-8 Freighter with $20Bn Qatari Order for 50

Boeing Launches 777-8 Freighter with $20Bn Qatari Order for 50

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Boeing today launched the new 777-8 Freighter and expanded its market-leading 777X and freighter families of jetliners with an order for up to 50 aircraft from one of the world’s largest cargo carriers, Qatar Airways.

Qatar Airways will be the 777-8 Freighter launch customer …

Lockheed Details New Airbus-based Bid for USAF Tanker Competition

Lockheed Details New Airbus-based Bid for USAF Tanker Competition

BETHESDA, Md. — Lockheed Martin leaders announced today the LMXT strategic tanker aircraft will be manufactured in Mobile, Alabama, and Marietta, Georgia. Introduced in September 2021, the LMXT is Lockheed Martin’s offering for the U.S. Air Force’s KC-Y “Bridge Tanker” Program competition.

“Est…

Egypt Orders South Korean K9 Self-Propelled Guns in $1.7 Bn Deal

Egypt Orders South Korean K9 Self-Propelled Guns in $1.7 Bn Deal

SEOUL — South Korea on Tuesday signed a contract to sell K9 self-propelled howitzers to Egypt in a deal worth over 2 trillion won (US$1.65 billion), Seoul’s arms procurement agency said, marking the artillery system’s first entry into the African market.

Hanwha Defense, the South Korean manufac…

High Alert: NATO Sends Troops, Warplanes Eastern Europe

High Alert: NATO Sends Troops, Warplanes Eastern Europe

LONDON — NATO member states are sending thousands of troops, warplanes and ships to allies in eastern Europe as tensions with Russia escalate over Moscow’s deployment of more than 100,000 troops to its border with Ukraine. The West fears an imminent Russian invasion, which the Kremlin denies.

F…

Sikorsky Wins $818M Contracts for CH-53K Production

Sikorsky Wins $818M Contracts for CH-53K Production

— Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a Lockheed Martin Co., Stratford, Connecticut, is awarded a $684,950,963 fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification (P00006) to a previously awarded contract (N0001920C0047).

This modification exercises options for the production and delivery of nine low-rate in…


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