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S. Korea Launches Procedures to Develop Light Aircraft Carrier

S. Korea Launches Procedures to Develop Light Aircraft Carrier

Military officials and defense researchers were to hold their first meeting Tuesday to develop core technologies necessary to build and deploy the country’s first light aircraft carrier by 2033, the arms procurement agency said.

The military has been pushing to secure the 40,000-ton light aircraf…

Sikorsky Wins $550M Order for CH-53K Production

Sikorsky Wins $550M Order for CH-53K Production

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a Lockheed Martin company, Stratford, Connecticut, is awarded a $550,372,323 modification (P00043) to previously awarded fixed-price-incentive (firm target), firm-fixed-price contract N00019-16-C-0048.

This modification is for Lot IV low rate initial production and deli…

Lockheed Wins $194M Order for Four MH-60R Helos for Greece

Lockheed Wins $194M Order for Four MH-60R Helos for Greece

Lockheed Martin Corp., Owego, New York, is awarded a $193,980,348 contract modification (P00019) to previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract N00019-19-C-0013.

This modification adds a $180,000,000 not-to-exceed, undefinitized line item for the production and delivery of four MH-60R aircraft…

Pakistan Orders Embraer Jetliner to Replace P-3C Orion MPAs

Pakistan Orders Embraer Jetliner to Replace P-3C Orion MPAs

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Navy has selected the Embraer Lineage 1000 jetliner to replace its P-3C Orion long-range maritime patrol aircraft, a service spokesman has confirmed to Defense News.

Outgoing naval chief Adm. Adm. Zafar Mahmood Abbasi announced Oct. 6 that the Navy would replace its P-3C …

Can the World Avoid an Arms Race in Space?

Can the World Avoid an Arms Race in Space?

On September 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed that leading space powers agree to prohibit the “stationing” of weapons in space and the “threat or use of force” against space objects.

There’s hardly anything new in Putin’s pronouncement. As far back as 1985, the USSR called for a ban …


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