Air Warfare
Boeing, which bid aggressively to win the Red Hawk contract in 2018, has paid the price of its fixed-cost structure, which a company spokesperson said has amounted to approximately $1.1 billion in charges.
By Michael Marrow“We build electronic warfare officers based on platforms … when that’s not the best way to do that,” Col. Joshua Koslov said.
By Michael Marrow“We need to provide the resources and I think this committee on both sides of the aisle wants to make sure our nation is safe, and provide the resources to do that,” Sen. Jon Tester said Tuesday.
By Aaron MehtaSikorsky now sets sights on winning the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competition and Black Hawk modernization.
By Ashley RoqueThe service selected the C-130J-30 in December 2020 to be the base aircraft of the NC3 aircraft dubbed E-XX TACAMO.
By Justin KatzThe Army reasoned “Sikorsky’s proposal provided something similar to a drawing of what the house looked like on the outside…. Such a picture did not provide the functional detail that the Army required showing what the space would look like on the inside,” according to the Government Accountability Office.
By Ashley Roque“The full-rate production decision enables the US Army to set the fielding schedule for IBCS to operational air defense units,” prime contractor Northrop Grumman said.
By Ashley RoqueThe US State Department recently approved roughly $750 million dollars in arms sales to Morocco, including HIMARS launchers, ATACMS missile systems and Joint Stand Off Weapons.
By Agnes HelouThe companies hope their intercontinental partnership will expand sales of their own jets and increase collaboration on existing orders.
By Michael MarrowThe move, which came alongside defense deals with local firms, signals “confidence” in South American defense market, company says.
By Agnes HelouLeaders discussed what US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called “a security-sector assistance roadmap to support the delivery of priority defense platforms over the next five to 10 years, including radar, unmanned aerial systems, military transport aircraft and coastal- and air-defense systems.”
By Colin ClarkThe move comes as the country looks to up defense spending and modernize its military forces in the wake of Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
By Michael Marrow“Turkey’s homegrown defense industry is certainly a key part of the overall package President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is offering to voters — the idea of a rising Turkey that will play hardball in an age of great power competition,” Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, a visiting fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, told Breaking Defense.
By Ragip Soylu
The Mitchell Institute’s Douglas Birkey argues Kyiv’s need for airpower is only highlighted by recently leaked US intelligence documents.
By Doug Birkey