30 janvier 2023 | International, Autre défense
Is 2023 the year you become a government contractor?
The federal government spent around $637 billion on contracts in fiscal year 2022, including those covering professional support services.
9 octobre 2019 | International, Aérospatial
By: Sebastian Sprenger
COLOGNE, Germany – The Dutch government on Tuesday announced plans to purchase nine more of Lockheed Martin's F-35 jets, a move that would bring the country's inventory to 46.
The envisioned €1 billion acquisition will “lay the foundation” for a third F-35 squadron in the Dutch air force, a plan that government officials first floated in late 2018, according to a statement posted on the defense ministry website.
The additional aircraft are expected contribute to the air force's objective of having four jets available for NATO missions while also performing homeland defense operations and accounting for training requirements and maintenance downtime.
Fully rounding out a third squadron would require 15 extra planes, however, alliance officials have previously told the Dutch, prompting talk in the Netherlands last year of a potentially higher number eventually.
The Dutch want the F-35 to replace their legacy fleet of F-16s. Neighbor Belgium selected the fifth-generation aircraft in the fall of 2018, announcing a planned buy of 34 copies.
Dick Zandee, a defense analyst at the Clingendael think tank in The Hague, told Defense News the announced acquisition of nine more F-35s enjoys “broad support” in the Dutch parliament. He said government leaders had already included the new aircraft spending in their annual report to NATO to show momentum in the country's move toward spending 2 percent of gross domestic product on the military.
Government officials have told parliament that they want to give the American program office a formal notice to buy the additional jets before the end of the year, Zandee said. The Dutch want F-35s of the newest configuration, he added, which means any changes in the international delivery schedule caused by the recent Turkish expulsion from the F-35 program likely would play no role.
The Trump administration has kicked Turkey out of the program over the country's purchase of the Russian S-400 air-defense system. American officials fear that co-locating the two systems could enable Russia to glean valuable intelligence about the planes simply by subjecting them to the S-400′s sensors.
30 janvier 2023 | International, Autre défense
The federal government spent around $637 billion on contracts in fiscal year 2022, including those covering professional support services.
23 juillet 2021 | International, Aérospatial
Thales annonce s'être vu notifier une commande de 350 viseurs de casques Scorpion® et de 400 visualisations têtes latérales numériques pour équiper l'intégralité des avions de combat Rafale produits par Dassault Aviation employés par l'armée de l'Air et de l'Espace, ainsi que par la Marine nationale. Ces nouveaux équipements permettront de renforcer l'efficacité opérationnelle du Rafale dans le cadre du standard F4. « Couplé avec le système d'armes, le viseur de casque Scorpion améliore la compréhension de la situation tactique et facilite l'agilité et la réactivité des équipages de combat. Son déploiement progressif sur le Rafale Standard F4 constituera un avantage décisif pour la réussite des missions ainsi que la protection des populations », souligne Thales. Zone-Bourse.com du 23 juillet
17 octobre 2024 | International, C4ISR, Sécurité
SideWinder APT launches stealthy multi-stage attacks, deploying StealerBot malware against critical entities in the Middle East and Africa.