Lockheed Martin’s surprise announcement Sunday that it has agreed to acquire propulsion systems developer and manufacturer
Aerojet Rocketdyne in a $4.4 billion deal, will lead to better integrated end products and improved manufacturing, James Taiclet, the company’s president and CEO said on Monday.
Aerojet Rocketdyne is a supplier of rocket and tactical motors to Lockheed Martin and other aerospace and defense customers for launch vehicles, tactical missiles, missile defense systems and emerging hypersonic weapons. About 35% of the company’s current sales are from Lockheed Martin.
Taiclet said Lockheed Martin will preserve Aerojet Rocketdyne’s merchant supplier status to other companies in the industry just as
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Field Artillery Soldiers will soon be ready to test-fire the modernized Army Tactical Missile System at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.
Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery Regiment will undergo intensive training here on the latest versions of software before operational testing.
Due to the upcoming DoD cluster munition ban, the Army has been working persistently to provide an accurate and lethal substitute for the legacy Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition warhead.
After several months of developmental testing with a unitary warhead and proximity sensor, ATACMS is ready for Soldiers to man the cab of an M270A1 Multiple Launching Rocket System launcher and fire it.
December 13, 2020: In November Iran presented its new warship, the Shahid Roudaki. Not exactly a warship but a RO-RO (Roll on-Roll Off) freighter thought to be a ship named Galaxy F that was built in 1992 and until recently operated in the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf and Atlantic. RO-RO means the ship has ramps that make it easy for vehicles to get on or off the spacious deck and spaces below the deck. The 150 meter (452 foot) long and 22 meters wide Galaxy F/ Shahid Roudaki can carry up to 536 cargo containers in the hold and on deck. This ship is elderly by commercial shipping standards and Iran could have bought it cheap, gave it a new paint job and filled a deck with various types of rockets, air-defense systems and UAVs, plus one elderly (1970s vintage) Bell 412 helicopter.