Lockheed Martin has delivered the first High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launcher in which both the chassis and launcher components were manufactured at its facility in Camden, Arkansas. In the past, the HIMARS five-ton chassis were Government Furnished Equipment to Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin is under a U.S. Department of Defense Foreign Military Sales […]

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company and Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) signed a Letter of Intent to cooperate on the UH-1Y. This signing is in addition to the LOI signed for the AH-1Z in 2016 – further expanding business relationships between Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa and Bell Helicopter. Based on this LOI, Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa and […]

U.S. M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles with other military equipment arrived at a military base in Vaziani (near Tbilisi) to participate in international exercises Noble Partner 2017 on Wednesday. As reported by the Georgian Ministry of Defense, US military equipment was delivered by rail from the port of Poti. Noble […]

Saudi Arabia is in talks over the possible orders of the batch of Scorpion light attack aircraft. That was reported by FlightGlobal.com. According to Scott Donnelly, chief executive of parent company Textron, Saudia Arabia is one of a number of customers it is in talks with over the developmental aircraft. The Scorpion ground attack aircraft was developed by Textron […]

It used to be the case that the US took its air and sea supremacy for granted, able to both defend itself against any possible threat and project power wherever it wanted. It seems, though, that some in the military are beginning to worry that a growing power is threatening this state of affairs – […]

There have been a lot of interesting developments from the US military in the last few years. The development cost of the F-35 Lightning II, once dubbed the most expensive fighter plane ever built, has dropped significantly following better economies of scale. Even so, the development program may push its cost beyond the $1 trillion […]

Approximately 1,900 Soldiers from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, arrived for the Network Integration Exercise 17.2 here, July 5 – 6. NIE began in 2011, and the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division has been a major participant in the exercise since its inception. The “Strike” Brigade is the […]

Partner nations around the globe are investing billions in military equipment, a lot of that in the form of U.S. foreign military sales, or FMS, said Maj. Gen. Stephen Farmen. The problem is that a lot of that investment is in big-ticket items like helicopters and tanks, he continued, not the follow-on pieces of training […]

The Sea Breeze 2017 international naval exercise, involving the United States and Ukraine, kicked off on Monday in the northwestern part of the Black Sea and in the regions of Odessa and Mykolaiv. US CV-22B Osprey and P-8 Poseidon aircraft join the Sea Breeze 2017 exercise in Ukraine Sea Breeze is a U.S. and Ukraine […]

On July 10 the United States of America is for the first deploying MIM-104 Patriot long-range missile system in Lithuania. The deployment demonstrates the steadfast U.S. commitment to the security of Lithuania and its high readiness to send strategic capabilities to the region. That was reported by Ministry of National Defence Republic of Lithuania. According to the […]