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USAF Delays Decision on KC-46 Tanker Production to 2024

USAF Delays Decision on KC-46 Tanker Production to 2024

The U.S. Air Force has delayed by four years a decision on whether the $44 billion KC-46 tanker program should be approved for full-rate production while contractor Boeing Co. tries to show it has fixed the flawed camera system used for the plane’s midair refueling mission.

An Air Force statement…

Brookings: Why Germany’s Nuclear Mission Matters

Brookings: Why Germany’s Nuclear Mission Matters

Earlier this month, the influential head of the Social Democratic Party’s (SPD) parliamentary group, Rolf Mützenich, called for the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from Germany and an end to Germany’s participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) nuclear sharing arrangements, tri…
HMS Lancaster on Weapons Trials After Two-Year Refit

HMS Lancaster on Weapons Trials After Two-Year Refit

HMS Lancaster is spending a fortnight flexing her military muscle off the south coast as she prepares for renewed front-line duties.

After a spot of maintenance in her home base of Portsmouth, the frigate put to sea at the weekend to focus on the ‘business end’ of Royal Navy operations: warfare.

Leonardo Wins Maintenance Contract with Danish Navy

Leonardo Wins Maintenance Contract with Danish Navy

ROME — Leonardo has signed a twenty-year framework agreement with the Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) which provides for logistics support and the possible future upgrade of the seventeen 76/62 Super Rapid Gun Mounts which are in-service on the Danish Navy’s Iver Huitf…
Rheinmetall Touts CH-53K In Flight Refueling Capabilities

Rheinmetall Touts CH-53K In Flight Refueling Capabilities

The CH-53K King Stallion heavy transport helicopter has successfully completed several inflight refuelling tests with a KC-130J Super Hercules tanker of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Lasting several hours, the test flight took place at the beginning of April off the east coast of the United States. New…

US Army Testing Advanced Seeker for Precision Strike Missile

US Army Testing Advanced Seeker for Precision Strike Missile

WASHINGTON — The Army has successfully completed its first open-air testing of an advanced multi-mode seeker, an upgrade to the Precision Strike Missile system.

During a two-day test period June 2-3 at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, research teams operated the seeker at 50 percent capacity while tr…


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