Defence Minister Harriett Baldwin has announced at the House of Commons Defence Select Committee that the UK’s cutting-edge F-35 fighter jet has been cleared for take-off from HMS Queen Elizabeth. Ms Baldwin told the Select Committee that he F-35 Integrated Test Force, which includes five British pilots, has now successfully completed ...
The US Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $59.5 million contract for additional APKWSTM guidance kits to transform unguided 2.75-inch (70-millimetre) rockets into laser-guided precision munitions. The new award is part of a 2016 indefinite delivery / indefinite quantity contract for more than $600 million and will see the company further ...
L3 Technologies is to deliver Hawkeye III Lite VSAT satellite communications terminals – alongside on-site training – to the US Air National Guard’s Joint Incident Site Communications Capability (JISCC) teams. The newly announced contract will require L3 to manufacture 46 Hawkeye III Lite 1.2 metre tri-band VSATs during the fourth quarter ...
Lockheed Martin has been contracted to outfit the United States, United Kingdom and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with Apache Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M‑TADS/PNVS) systems as part of a tranche of orders worth an estimated $337M. Each award forms part of an initial task order under a ...