CREECH AFB, Nev. — The 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron conducted the first flight of the MQ-9A Reaper carrying eight live AGM-114 Hellfire missiles on September 10, 2020, reinforcing the platform’s “persistent attack” role.

This new capability is part of the MQ-9 Operational Flight Program …

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Meta Aerospace announced today that, following its recently consummated purchase agreement with The Government of the Republic of Singapore, it has now taken delivery of the first of four former Republic of Singapore Air Force KC-135R aircraft and successfully ferried the aircra…

BAE Systems will produce and deliver Bofors 40 Mk4 and Bofors 57 Mk3 naval guns for the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s Type 31 general purpose frigate program.

The agreement, through a contract with Babcock International, will supply the Royal Navy with a set of advanced, multi-purpose gun systems fo…

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, was awarded a $131,596,627 modification (P00011) to contract W58RGZ-19-C-0022 for Gray Eagle aircraft, satellite communications air data terminals, program management and government-furnished equipment maintenance and repair.

Work wil…

BAE Systems, York, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $127,588,892 modification (P00026) to contract W56HZV-17-C-0242 for the sole source procurement of M88A2 Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift and Evacuation System vehicles.

Work will be performed in York, Pennsylvania, with an estimated com…

Imagine a commercial airline company whose planes are all approaching the end of their working lives. The ageing of the planes is well known and understood, the need for a replacement obvious. Yet company management spend twenty years bickering and dithering over what replacements to buy, spending b…