WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio — In an effort to field MQ-9 Reapers faster and meet an increasing operational demand for the aircraft, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s MQ-9 Program Office awarded a $7.4 billion ceiling Agile Reaper Enterprise Solution (ARES) contract to General Atomics Sep…

TUCSON, Ariz. — Bulgaria became the world’s 40th AMRAAM user when the European nation recently signed an agreement to purchase the missile from the U.S. Air Force through a foreign military sales contract.

This letter of offer and acceptance allows the U.S. government to begin contract negotia…

Today, Thursday September 17, Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany, made a joint trip on the theme of cooperation in the field of defense, in Évreux (Eure), then in Manching (Bavaria).

In Évreux, at th…

Florence Parly, the Minister of the Armed Forces, and her German counterpart, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, laid, Thursday, September 17 on the air base 105 of Evreux (Eure), the first stone of the building which will house the first Franco-German air transport squadron. The ceremony was followed by a…

The reception ceremony of the first Patriot surface-to-air missile system took place today, September 17, at the National Training Center for Air Defense “Brigadier General Ion Bungescu” at Capu Midia, Constanța County.

The main equipment in the composition of the first Patriot system of long-ran…

The recently published viewpoint “Can the Pentagon Spend More Smartly?” (AW&ST Aug. 31-Sept. 13, p. 58) highlights the consequences of increased dependence on technology to maintain an edge. In fact, the core issue of the exponential growth in cost associated with the linear growth in technology cap…