Boeing has secured a nearly $10 million contract to test and integrate the 2,000 lb GBU-56(V)4/B dual-mode Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) on the F/A-18 platform.
By: Lance Cpl. Benjamin Pryer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Day: September 8, 2016
New ICBM to cost American taxpayers at least $85 billion
The DoD’s chief weapons buyer Frank Kendall told U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah James in a memo on Aug. 23 that a new intercontinental ballistic missile to replace the Minuteman III will cost at least $85 billion to develop and field.
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PAK-FA ready for mass production, Russia to buy at least 1 squadron of aircraft
Russia’s Deputy Minister for Defense Yuri Borisov has said that the Sukhoi PAK-FA is ready for mass production and Moscow plans to buy at least a squadron of aircraft in 2017.
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Kazakhstan to take delivery of 2 Su-30SMs this year
Kazakhstan’s Deputy Defense Minister Okas Saparov told Sputnik that his country will take delivery of another two Su-30SM fighters from Russia.
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Russian Su-27 carried out unsafe intercept of USN P-8A over Black Sea
The Pentagon has confirmed that a Russian Su-27 came within 10 feet of a U.S. Navy P-8A while both were flying over the Black Sea on Sept. 6.
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