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Japanese aircraft maker ShinMaywa Industries will build a new factory on Kobe Airport Island to assemble the US-2 search-and-rescue flying boat it supplies to Japan’s Ministry of Defense, the company said at its latest earnings briefing. The firm expects to invest several billion yen in the plant and aims to start operations in 2029. The […]
The U.S. Marine Corps has more than doubled the ceiling on its sole-source contract with Heckler & Koch for M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles. The modification adds $45.4 million and raises the maximum value of the deal from $39.2 million to $84.6 million, covering continued purchases of rifles, spare parts and associated equipment. The modification, announced […]
The Indian Air Force has landed an Il-76MD heavy transport aircraft at Nyoma airbase in eastern Ladakh, about 4,150 meters (13,629 feet) above sea level. The service said in a post that it was the highest-altitude landing the aircraft type has ever made anywhere in the world. The Il-76MD is a four-engine Soviet-designed airlifter that […]
The United States is putting more money into building artillery production that can surge in wartime, with the U.S. Army adding $105.8 million to MSM Group North America’s contract for a new 155mm shell loading complex at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. The modification, announced by the U.S. Department of War, raises the total value […]
Russia’s state defense conglomerate Rostec has shown a mobile version of its Tsitadel anti-aircraft gun system, with the weapon and its sensors mounted on a truck chassis, the company said. Until now, Tsitadel had been fielded as a stationary system designed to guard fixed sites against drones. “The combat module, as well as the radar […]
Russia’s Defense Ministry has released footage of a Mi-28NM attack helicopter firing a small, low-cost cruise missile during combat operations in Ukraine. The missile appears to be either the S8000 Banderol or the closely related Dan-T, two jet-powered weapons that look alike and have been described both as drones and as cruise missiles. The video […]
The U.S. Air Force is asking Congress for $4.25 billion in its fiscal 2027 budget to buy critical spare parts for its bombers, tankers, fighters and trainers, after its own figures showed that only eight of 24 measured aircraft fleets meet supply readiness standards. The request, set out in the service’s Working Capital Fund budget […]
The Defense Logistics Agency plans to buy a hydraulic cylinder assembly for the U.S. Army’s CH-47 Chinook helicopter only from Boeing because the government does not have the technical data it needs to let anyone else compete, the latest example of the data gap the Pentagon’s right-to-repair push is meant to close. DLA Aviation at […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Amentum Services a $609 million contract to supply at least 500 full-time-equivalent contract workers to keep its depots running, the U.S. Department of War announced on Nov. 5. The firm-fixed-price contract, W911RQ-27-C-A004, lists Texarkana, Texas, home of Red River Army Depot, as the place of performance and runs through Nov. […]
The U.S. Navy has exercised an $11.3 million option with Integer Technologies to keep developing software that maps the underwater soundscape for submarines and undersea drones, the U.S. Department of War announced on Nov. 5. The Office of Naval Research awarded the modification, P00002 to contract N0001426C2208, for an effort called Operationalizing Marine Acoustics for […]
