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28-Jun-2021 Source: US Navy A contract to build nine CH-53K™ King Stallion™ helicopters with an additional contract option for nine more aircraft was awarded to Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company on June 25. The Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Lot 5 contract will deliver nine aircraft in 2024 as part of a 200 aircraft program of record for the U.S. Marine Corps. The Lot 5 contract contains an option for Lot 6, for an additional nine aircraft with a contract award ...

By   Bill Greenwalt on March 09, 2021 at 8:00 AM If the new DOD task force on China is serious about looking at the state of our technology competition, it needs to understand that the balance of technological power has shifted – and it has primarily been a self-inflicted wound.  The best ideas no longer arise in a US defense industry encumbered by 60 years of Stalinist-style central planning and security controls, but from commercial sources that once were primarily in the U.S. and are n...

 - January 15, 2021, 6:37 AM Carrying laser-guided bombs, Litening targeting pod and Russian-supplied R-73 air-to-air missiles, this Tejas represents the LCA Mk1 Initial Operational Clearance-II standard, which is now in service with one IAF squadron. (Photo: Aeronautical Development Agency) India’s Cabinet Committee on Security—chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi—met on January 13 to approve the purchase of the Mk1A version of the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) for the Indian Ai...

URL copied OPINION | How in a single stroke Modi rubbished Rahul’s charge of ‘winding up’ HAL The Cabinet Committee on Security on Wednesday approved the acquisition of 83 indigenously manufactured fourth-generation Tejas jet fighters from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd for the Indian Air Force. This is the biggest ever indigenous military deal worth Rs 46,898 crore. Delivery of the single-engine Tejas Mark 1-A fighter jets will begin in three years. This will give a big boost to the...