The US Navy has awarded BAE Systems $13.5 million to incorporate its Smart D2 technology as part of the US Navy’s ALE-47 Common Carriage program which increases expendable payload capacity as the USN converts from round to square countermeasures. The contract is an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) through the Naval Aviation Systems ...
Babcock has been awarded a 10- year multi-million contract for the global support of air transit and aircraft operation equipment by the Aeronautical Maintenance Department (French Ministry of Armed Forces). This is Babcock’s first significant Land Sector contract in France, and will be supported by capability transfer from our UK business. ...
More than 250 “portable” and “packable” mini drones will be delivered to the Armed Forces after the award of a contract worth £129 million to Lockheed Martin UK. Replacing existing Mini Uncrewed Aerial Systems (MUAS) such as Desert Hawk 3, the 159 rotary-wing Indago 4 devices and 105 fixed-wing Stalker VXE30 ...
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has completed work on a £25m project to resurface taxiways and aircraft parking stands for the US Air Force at RAF Fairford. While it is owned by the UK Government, RAF Fairford is used by the US Air Force as a bomber forward operating base. The ...
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