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France to Boost Defense Spending for Fifth Consecutive Year

France to Boost Defense Spending for Fifth Consecutive Year

The budget of the Ministry of the Armed Forces continues to grow, in accordance with the objectives of the 2019-2025 Military Programming Law (LPM).

For the fourth consecutive year, this new finance bill (PLF) calls for an increase in appropriations for the benefit of the Ministry of the Armed F…

Lockheed Offers Airbus MRTT Tanker to US Air Force

Lockheed Offers Airbus MRTT Tanker to US Air Force

MARIETTA, Ga. — Lockheed Martin introduces the LMXT as America’s next strategic tanker ― built in America by Americans for Americans. Offered in response to the U.S. Air Force’s KC-Y Program, the LMXT represents the newest chapter in Lockheed Martin’s 60+ year history of producing and delivering t…
Rolls-Royce Awarded $2.6Bn to Re-engine B-52H Bomber Fleet

Rolls-Royce Awarded $2.6Bn to Re-engine B-52H Bomber Fleet

WASHINGTON — The Department of the Air Force has awarded a $2,604,329,361 contract to Rolls-Royce Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana, for B-52H Stratofortress military derivative commercial engines.

The competitive single award contract provides for 608 military derivative commercial engines, p…

Pentagon Awards F-35 Contracts Worth $1.5Bn

Pentagon Awards F-35 Contracts Worth $1.5Bn

— Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $1,099,631,252 modification (P00008) to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive (firm target) advance acquisition contract (N0001920C0009).
This modification exercises options for the production and deli…
US Navy Carrier Group Returns to South China Sea

US Navy Carrier Group Returns to South China Sea

SOUTH CHINA SEA — The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is operating in the South China Sea for the second time during its 2021 deployment, Sept. 24.

The U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) steams through international waters.

The carrier strike gro…

Babcock Cuts First Steel for Type 31 Frigate Program

Babcock Cuts First Steel for Type 31 Frigate Program

LONDON — Steel was today cut for HMS Venturer, the first vessel of the Royal Navy’s Type 31 frigates that will be at the centre of its surface fleet.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace officially cut steel for the UK’s newest warship, during a ceremony held at Rosyth dockyard. The event marks a sig…


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