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Raytheon SeaGriffin Missile Completes Guided Flight Test
2014-07-15 Read More...
Raytheon Company successfully completed the latest guided flight test of its SeaGriffin™ missile. The test further demonstrated the effectiveness of SeaGriffin's semi-active laser guidance system, and the missile's ability to capture images from a

MBDA’s STRATUS for Future Battlespace at Farnborough
2014-07-15 Read More...
MBDA is unveiling CVW101 STRATUS, its latest Concept Visions project, at the Farnborough International Airshow 2014. STRATUS provides a transformational, innovative approach to Command & Control and Mission Control of Missile Systems across

Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner and P-8A Poseidon at Farnborough
2014-07-14 Read More...
Boeing’s new 787-9 Dreamliner and the P-8A Poseidon is participating for the first time in flying displays at the Farnborough International Airshow, which runs July 14-20. This year's airshow marks the 40th anniversary of Boeing's participation at

Raytheon at Farnborough International Airshow
2014-07-14 Read More...
Precision weapons, advanced gunfire detectors, tiny jammers and a bus-size radar that tracks missiles as they hurtle through space will all be part of Raytheon Company's technology showcase at the July 14-20 Farnborough International Airshow in

Textron AirLand’s Scorpion Makes 1st Trans-Atlantic Flight
2014-07-11 Read More...
Scorpion took to the sky on July 1 from its home base in Kansas, flying a northern route and arriving in Edinburgh on July 5. Scorpion’s first trans-Atlantic flight covered 4,600 nautical miles in 15 flight hours.

Oshkosh Defense's JLTV Solution Completes Net-Ready Test
2014-07-11 Read More...
Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, reached a milestone in the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD's) Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program by completing Net-Ready testing with the Oshkosh Light Combat Tactical All-Terrain

Raytheon: Information Key to National C4I System
2014-07-10 Read More...
All seeing and all knowing is the perfect situation for any Commander. Especially given that the decisions can have tremendous and long term impact. For a Commander, accurate, reliable and immediate information is what is needed to make the best

Aegis Combat System’s Newest Baseline 9 Completes 3 Tests
2014-07-10 Read More...
The Lockheed Martin and U.S. Navy team’s Baseline 9 Aegis Combat System recently completed multiple exercises including the longest-range engagement ever tested with a Standard Missile-6 (SM-6).

HAVELSAN, Lockheed Sign Global Training Agreement
2014-07-08 Read More...
HAVELSAN signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin on June 11, 2014 to collaborate on global and local opportunities. The partnerships were confirmed at the Annual Conference on U.S.-Turkish Relations.

Raytheon Wins New AMRAAM Contract
2014-07-07 Read More...
Raytheon Company was awarded a $163,223,113 fixed-price/fixed-price-incentive/cost-plus-incentive contract for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) Program Support and Sustainment

Textron AirLand’s Scorpion to Make 1st Flight to Europe
2014-07-07 Read More...
Textron AirLand, LLC, a joint venture between Textron Inc. and AirLand Enterprises, LLC, has announced that its Scorpion aircraft is progressing on schedule toward a July departure from McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas.

Boeing Completes 14th P-8A Poseidon Delivery to US Navy
2014-07-04 Read More...
Boeing recently helped expand the U.S. Navy’s maritime patrol capabilities with delivery of the 14th P-8A Poseidon

NGC to Supply 25 New E-2D Advanced Hawkeye to US Navy
2014-07-02 Read More...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) a $3.6 billion fixed price, incentive fee multiyear contract to deliver 25 new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft, bringing the total number of aircraft on contract to

Small Diameter Bomb II Closer to Production Phase
2014-06-30 Read More...
Raytheon Company and the U.S. Air Force concluded a series of flight tests for the Small Diameter Bomb II culminating in direct hits on stationary land

Sikorsky to Develop New Combat Rescue Helicopter
2014-06-30 Read More...
Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract to develop new combat search and rescue helicopters. Sikorsky will develop a derivative of the UH-60M BLACK HAWK model for the Air Force’s

Lockheed Martin Launches LV-2 Target For Defense Test  
2014-06-25 Read More...
Lockheed Martin successfully flew an LV-2 intermediate-range ballistic missile target for a test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system conducted by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.

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