The latest annual report from the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E) states that the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) claimed improved reliability by adjusting the way it records equipment failures rather than by delivering technical corrections.
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KESTEREN, Netherlands — Last week’s grounding of the F-35 fleet puts the Pratt & Whitney F-135 engine back in the public spotlights, just one week before the planned international debut of the F-35B at the RIAT 2014 and Farnborough Airshows.
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Israel Aerospace Industries President and Chief Executive Joseph Weiss sat beside Spacecom head David Pollack at Ben Gurion Airport yesterday and signed a single document that binds both companies to deliver, launch, and operate the Amos-6 communications satellite for roughly $195 million. The agreement’s signature ends nine months of negotiation, locks the delivery calendar, and maintains Israel’s ambition to keep national satellites working at the crowded 4° West slot.
On 23 March the Norwegian Government presented a fresh long-term plan for the Armed Forces. The document repeats the core security goals set after the 2004 re-orientation, yet it answers two new pressures at once: higher front-line costs in Afghanistan and sharper attention to the High North. The plan keeps the NATO pledge of a credible national deterrent but trims legacy overhead to give combat units more flight hours, sea days, and live-fire drills.
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Pilots walk to their jets before sunrise, climb the ladder, key the INS, and watch the route and target files flow in by Link 16. A typical launch leaves the chocks with the following kit:
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Washington has alerted Congress to a possible $2.9 billion Foreign Military Sale that bundles fresh M1A1 Abrams tanks with a fleet-wide rebuild for every Saudi M1A2. The Royal Saudi Land Forces want fifty-eight surplus M1A1 hulls, plus the teardown and refit of the 315 M1A2s already in service. All 373 vehicles would emerge as a single “M1A2S” standard that folds Saudi-specific cooling, power, and fire-control tweaks into the U.S. Army’s own Abrams Integrated Management reset line.
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The Ministry of Defence has signed a £700 million agreement with Thales UK to develop, manufacture, and support the Watchkeeper unmanned system. The single signature secures every major phase of work, from completing design through initial sustainment, under one integrated schedule.
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The Systems Division of Tenix Defence Systems today closed the Critical Design Review for the ELTA EL/L-8222 electronic-countermeasures pod Software Support Facility. Built at Mawson Lakes, South Australia, the new suite will stand ready for the Royal Australian Air Force’s Electronic Warfare Squadron in June 2001. The work finishes on time and within contract cost.
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Ian Will, Manager of Electro-optic EW Systems at Tenix Defence Systems, confirmed today that a foreign customer has placed an order for three Mallina long-range ultraviolet stimulators. Each unit will ship from the company’s Welshpool facility before the end of the calendar year. The deal, while modest in quantity, marks the first export sale of the Mallina series and signals growing confidence in Australian-designed threat-emulation equipment.
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