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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 …

MD Helicopters Hit With $36 Million Verdict in Fraud Case

MD Helicopters Hit With $36 Million Verdict in Fraud Case

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A Huntsville federal court jury verdict Friday could result in a defense contractor having to pay more than $100 million to whistleblowers and the federal government after jurors found the company fraudulently induced the U.S. Army into contracts with Saudi Arabia, El Salvador a…
Canada Confronts Replacement of Submarine Capabilities

Canada Confronts Replacement of Submarine Capabilities

OTTAWA, ON — If Canada wants to respond to the threat posed by a rising China’s naval power, contribute to the defence of itself and its allies, and acquire the patrol and surveillance capabilities needed to assert our sovereignty in the Arctic and along our coastlines, submarines are not a luxury…
Pentagon Awards $214M for New V-22 Flight Control System

Pentagon Awards $214M for New V-22 Flight Control System

Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $214,394,944 cost-plus-incentive-fee order (N0001921F0327) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001917G0002).

This order provides for the redesign and development of the V-22 Flight Control System, to include the …


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