WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio — Combat arms units across the Air Force are getting new and improved 9mm caliber handguns to replace the M9 pistols that have been in service since 1985.

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Small Arms Program Office acquired approximately 125,000 M18s from S…

TINKER AFB, Okla. — The U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 Stratotanker fleet has received the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Out (ADS-B Out) upgrade, thanks to the efforts of a team led by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Tanker Directorate.

The ADS-B Out program was established …

A South Australian company enlisted by Defence to help in the fight against COVID-19 is among three Australian companies that have received funding from the Morrison Government to ramp up their involvement in the global F-35 program.

Family-owned Axiom has secured more than $800,000 to purchase n…

In 2019, the Ministry of Defence granted a total of 284 permanent export licences for defence materiel (257 in 2018). The total value of the licences was EUR 105 million, which is 40% lower than in 2018; then the figure was EUR 176 million. The value of actual exports decreased by 12% and was around…

UVision Air Ltd.’s high-precision, light-weight portable Hero-30 loitering munition system was evaluated by a naval force of a major NATO member and proved its remarkable capabilities. The systems demonstrated remarkable abilities of high-precision strikes, tracking and lock-on on a moving target in…

Rheinmetall Group subsidiary Rheinmetall Denel Munition has won a 13 million-euro plant engineering contract. The contract encompasses modernization of an existing production facility belonging to an established, longstanding customer. Due to begin shortly, the project is to be complete in 2021.

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