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Boeing on Contract for 10 More Years of Singapore F-15 Services Support Our Bureau 2010 U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagles. The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) recently awarded Boeing its fourth Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract to support Singapore’s fleet of F-15SG aircraft. Under the 10-year, Direct Commercial Sale contract, Boeing will work closely with the RSAF to deliver customized support services to sustain the F-15SG for the next decade. In addition, Boeing’s field servi...

RSAF combines sensors, shooters and AI in state-of-the-art system to better defend Singapores airspace Toggle share menu Advertisement RSAF combines sensors, shooters and AI in state-of-the-art system to better defend Singapores airspace Singapores air defence can now strike airborne threats that are twice as far away. Thats with new ground-based missiles in the Republic of Singapore Air Forces Island Air Defence system that can dart 70km away in a matter of seconds. ...

DAC nod to proposals worth Rs 28,000 crore, two of them for surveillance Apart from these, the DAC gave its go-ahead to the Navy to procure 38 BrahMos missiles and five more Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vehicles. It also cleared Modular Bridges for the Army. Updated: December 18, 2020 8:33:51 am Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates Aero India-2021, says “India is vigilant and prepared to counter and defeat any misadventures to defend our people and terr...

By   Chyrine Mezher on December 16, 2020 at 11:20 AM Artist’s rendition Bahrain F-16 Block 70 BEIRUT: The fact that the United Arab Emirates looks likely to receive F-35 fighter jets does not mean its Arab allies will be able to share the advanced data the fifth generation fighter can gather. For example, It would take Bahrain up to 10 years before it can integrate its fourth generation aircraft with the F-35 fleet, Brig. Gen. Munther Majed Nasser Al-Khalifa, acting fighter wing Commander...

Sponsored by: Good Evening, Drifters This week Secretary of Defense Mark Esper rolled out DoD’s new plans for a massive build-up of the U.S. fleet, including a big boost to submarine building, developing a building new classes of unmanned vessels and even talked about incorporating new unmanned aircraft beyond MQ-25 into the carrier air wing. You can read about that here: One of the things that caught my attention was near the top of Esper’s remarks, he made reference to the great patron sa...

Maintenance Update: The GAO is out today with a new and depressing report on the state of the public shipyards. Last week, we dug into a report by Maiya Clark at Heritage that detailed the Navy’s house-of-cards approach to fixing the shipyards’ woes. GAO drives the point home. Key Points: The Navy’s four shipyards completed 38 of 51 (75 percent) maintenance periods late for aircraft carriers and submarines with planned completion dates in fiscal years 2015 through 2019, for a combined tot...

Always in the details. First, let’s dive into Mark Esper’s remarks at Rand Corporation on the future of the Navy fleet. Here’s Esper’s central argument: Excerpt: Ship numbers are important, but they don’t tell the whole story. They do not address the types of ships and the capabilities of the vessels being counted; the skill of the crews that operate them; the prowess of the officers that lead them; or the ways in which we fight and sustain them…just to name a few. Nonetheless, we ...

ALEXANDRIA – Good Evening, Drifters Today is the day that endless force structure assessments broke my mind. At our annual Defense News Conference, Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist announced that the Navy’s latest force structure assessment was due to the Secretary of Defense soon, and a source tells me it will be before the end of September. I wrote about some of this here: I took up Navy reporting full time in 2014, after a one-year stint between 2010 and 2011 at Navy Times. Sin...

A Maintenance House of Cards: The Drift, S. II, Vol. XXXIV UPPER PITTSGROVE, NJ – Good Evening from the New Jersey bureau. Ladies and gentlemen, there is little doubt that the Navy is too small to carry out its current mission load. Or, perhaps more accurately: The Navy, with its current number and mix of ships, cannot generate adequate force to maintain its current mission load. They’ve been scraping too little peanut butter over too much bread for years now, and we only tend to talk about...

Let’s Drift. Fitzgerald Again As I intimated in my introduction, there is not much new to be found in this report. The basic story is the same: The Fitzgerald, steaming near Tokyo in heavy traffic, failed to maneuver to avoid a collision with the container ship ACX Crystal. The officer of the deck failed to properly track the Crystal, as well as several other close-call contacts that evening, and violated the Commanding Officer’s standing orders by not waking him when there was doubt about ...