The Pentagon gave Bell Boeing a $4.2 billion contract to build V-22s and this contract includes 39 CMV-22Bs for the U.S. Navy.
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Month: July 2018
Japan picks Lockheed Martin’s LRDR for its Aegis Ashore installations
Reuters is reporting that Japan has picked Lockheed Martin’s Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) over Raytheon’s SPY-6 as the primary sensor for both its Aegis Ashore installations.
By Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet (Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Complex Romania) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Tu-22M3M could carry up to four Kinzhals
An anonymous source told Sputnik that the upgraded Tu-22M3M supersonic bomber could carry up to four Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.
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By Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation (TU-22M3) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
India’s DAC clears purchase of S-400
India’s Defense Acquisitions Council (DAC) has given the green light to buy the S-400 air defense missile system from Russia.
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USAF has slashed UTP to 49 weeks and some instructors are concern
It now takes the U.S. Air Force an average of 49.2 weeks to train a pilot under the undergraduate pilot training syllabus. Previously, it was 54.7 weeks.
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