10/27/2017:The CH-53K King Stallion lands after a test flight in West Palm Beach, Fla. on March 22, 2017. Lockheed Martin announced the CH-53K King Stallion passed its Defense Acquisition Board assessment that approved for the aircraft to begin low-rate initial production on April 4, 2017. The CH-53K will be considered…
2017-10-15 The F-35 manufacturing and supply chain approach has been to drive innovation from design to production to sustainment and to do so throughout the global enterprise. A case in point is the Danish firm Terma. According to an article published on October 13, 210 on Evertiq: Danish manufacturer Terma…
2017-10-15 By Guy Martin The Denel Dynamics Marlin missile is at an advanced stage of development, with test flights of the 100 km range radar-guided weapon having already been carried out. Marlin is a radar-guided beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air missile technology demonstrator and the intention is to also use…
2017-10-06 By Gulshan Luthra and Air Marshal VK Jimmy Bhatia (Retd) New Delhi. The Indian Air Force (IAF) is finally set to issue a Request for Information (RFI) to the US Lockheed Martin for F 16 and to Swedish Saab for Gripen for acquiring 114 single engine combat aircraft. In an…
2017-09-26 Recently, the French, Norwegian and German Air Forces have added new tanking capabilities to their forces. And in the Norwegian and German cases did so under a collective European defense acquisition approach. In a press release dated September 7, 2017, Airbus Defence and Space noted the first flight of…
2017-10-05 Approximately 50% of the airplanes coming off of the final assembly line at Fort Worth are partner F-35s. And because of how the supply chain is designed, companies in partner states not only play a key role of that partner's plane but on the global enterprise as well. This…
2017-09-13 By Robbin Laird The UK has announced its new shipbuilding strategy, one which seeks to leverage the modularity approach introduced by building the new Queen Elizabeth class carriers. Now the First Sea Lord has addressed the question of the role of the maritime sector in generating broader defense transformation.…
2017-09-12 The Aussies last year launched their new shipbuilding strategy. Now Australia has been joined by the UK officially launched its new strategy. And this one is informed by a very successful national mobilization effort to deliver modules to a central assembly point and to then put together the largest…
