September 14, 2023 | International, Land
B-21 ground tests proceed as bomber’s first flight deadline approaches
Engine runs on the first B-21 are underway, with tests of its fuel systems, doors, landing gear and more already complete.
November 29, 2023 | International, Naval, C4ISR
USS Carney shoots down drone launched from Yemen, official says
A U.S. official told the Associated Press that the Navy destroyer deemed the drone to be a threat and shot it down over water.
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March 26, 2019 | International, Aerospace
Pentagon: We’re Buying Boeing F-15s to Keep 2 Fighter Makers in Business
BY MARCUS WEISGERBER The acting defense secretary's ties to the company had nothing to do with the decision, a senior defense official said Friday. The decision to buy new Boeing F-15s reflects the Pentagon's desire to keep two American companies making fighter jets into the next decade — and not the acting defense secretary's ties to the company, a senior defense official said Friday. The 2020 budget request contains $1.1 billion to buy eight F-15X jets, a new variant of an aircraft the Air Force last bought nearly a decade ago. The twin-tailed plane was chosen over Lockheed's cheaper single-engine F-16 in part to keep a second U.S. manufacturer in the tactical-jet business as the Pentagon begins exploring new technologies for a new generation of warplanes, the official said. “One of the considerations was the diversity of the industrial base,” the official said. “If we look at something as important as the tactical aircraft industrial base and we look forward into sixth-generation [fighter] production and competition and that kind of stuff,...gaining diversity in that industrial base is going to be critical.” The senior defense official emphasized that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who formerly worked as a Boeing executive, was not involved in the decision to buy the F-15X. Full article: https://www.defenseone.com/business/2019/03/pentagon-were-buying-f-15s-keep-2-fighter-makers-business/155773
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March 3, 2021 | International, Aerospace
MBDA awarded first contract for its new Albatros NG system
This first order, from an undisclosed international customer, marks a further validation of the wide appeal of the CAMM air defence family on the global marketplace and paves the way...