A recapitalisation contract to overhaul and upgrade an additional Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) M270 launchers operating with the U.S. Army has been won by Lockheed Martin. The $226m contract will see the refurbishment of 44 MLRS M270s and return to as ‘zero-time’ launchers. Worth noting the fact that last year, the company won an...
By: Patrick Tucker Like Herman Kahn at RAND in the 1940s, Team Ignite scans the technological horizon for upcoming advances in electronics, artificial intelligence, space, biotech, and more. Its forecasts, informed by data and machine learning, are intended to help the Army arm, organize, and train itself for conflicts around 2040 to 2050. “I don’t think there’s been a time...
A $6.07 billion contract from the U.S. Army has been received by Lockheed Martin for the production of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors and associated equipment, to be delivered across FY21, FY22, and FY23 contract years. PAC-3 MSE provides the latest enhancement of the MIM-104 Patriot weapon system. The system leverages an advanced multi-mission interceptor...
U.S. military researchers are being seeking help from the private industrial sector in order to upgrade components of mission-critical software for aerospace and defense applications with more secure and higher-performing code. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., will brief industry in an online webinar from noon to 4...
The 2,500th of the latest AH-64E version Apache Guardian attack helicopter has been manufactured at the Mesa production in Arizona marking a milestone, which began with the commencement of production by McDonnell Douglas of the first AH-64A in 1983. As it has happened with the first helicopter, this latest one is going to be deployed...
INTRACOM DEFENSE (IDE) has signed a contract with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to supply an integrated Hybrid Electric Power Systems (HEPS®) technology developed by the advanced Hybrid Electric Power Systems (HEPS®) technology. IAI has chosen to integrate IDE’s HEPS® technology into its systems for international markets, based on its operational advantages in the areas of...
Northrop Grumman Corporation, MBDA and Saab have successfully completed a joint, collaborative effort to demonstrate the ability to integrate MBDA’s Common Anti-air Modular Missile (CAMM) family and Saab’s Giraffe radar system family into Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS). CAMM was the first non-U.S. missile system to be demonstrated with IBCS earlier this year, and Giraffe...
MELBOURNE, Australia — The last of Japan’s eight planned destroyers capable of intercepting ballistic missiles has started sea trials ahead of its commissioning, even as the country ponders its next move following its decision to suspend plans to introduce ground-based systems for that role. The destroyer Haguro left shipbuilder Japan Marine United Corporation’s shipyard at Isogo, near...
The United Kingdom may not upgrade all of its early model Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning combat aircraft to the latest Block 4 standard later this decade, declaring it will decide numbers based on ‘military capability requirements’. Answering a question in the House of Commons Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Jeremy Quin,...
Germany is set to become the first of the Eurofighter Typhoon partner nations to retrofit an active, electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, a move that should bolster the fighter’s export potential. The German Parliament has given a green light for Berlin to spend €2.8 billion ($3.1 billion) to install the Euroradar consortium’s Captor-E radar in...
