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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…
China Complains As British Frigate Sails Through Taiwan Strait

China Complains As British Frigate Sails Through Taiwan Strait

BEIJING — The British Royal Navy frigate HMS Richmond sailed through the Taiwan Strait on September 27 and openly hyped it up. The Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) sent naval and air forces to track and monitor the British warship in the whole course, said Seni…
Boeing Wins $23.7Bn for C-17 Sustainment Through 2031

Boeing Wins $23.7Bn for C-17 Sustainment Through 2031

The Boeing Co., Long Beach, California, has been awarded a $3,464,266,341 firm-fixed-price, fixed-price incentive (firm target), cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursement-no fee and time-and-material, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the C-17 Globemaster II…
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…

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.
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 …


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