AvioBlog Magazine Tutte le ultime notizie aeronautiche

MQ-9 cleared to carry 8 Hellfire missiles

A new software upgrade for the MQ-9 will now allow the unmanned air vehicle to carry up to eight AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Haley Stevens Known as the MQ-9 Operational Flight Program 2409, the new upgrade will allow the drone to carry the missiles on the outboard wing stations […]

Japan to arm F-15J with 900km range missile

One of the items that was revealed in Japan’s defense budget for fiscal year 2021 is for the spending of $201 million to upgrade the F-15J so that it can carry a missile with a range of more than 900km. Graphic: Boeing The AGM-158 JASSM-ER is likely the missile as it has a range of […]
GD Wins $1.2Bn for Interim Maneuver SHORAD System

GD Wins $1.2Bn for Interim Maneuver SHORAD System

General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $1,219,170,958 hybrid (cost-no-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price and fixed-price-incentive) contract to produce, test and deliver Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) systems.

US Clears Sale of F-18E and F-35 to Switzerland

US Clears Sale of F-18E and F-35 to Switzerland

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Switzerland of forty (40) F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $6.58 billion.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency deliver…


AvioBlog - Tutte le ultime notizie aeronautiche civili e militari