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The Pentagon’s Defense Acquisitions Board (DAB) of top weapons buyers recertified the tri-service F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program during a Feb. 21 meeting, but high sustainment costs might force the Pentagon to slow production down further or trim flight hours for aircrew, a senior defense official said.
John Jumper, who spent four years as the Air Force chief of staff, will be taking the reins at SAIC beginning in March, the company announced Feb. 21.
NEW DELHI — India is developing homemade electronic warfare (EW) systems that will have a range of up to 500 kilometers when fitted on UAVs and aircraft. At present, India is using ground-based EW systems fitted on naval platforms with a range of only 10 to 20 kilometers.
The Pentagon’s Defense Acquisitions Board (DAB) met Feb. 21 to discuss the tri-service F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, a defense official confirmed.
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani navy took delivery Feb. 21 of two state-of-the-art, U.S.-made surveillance aircraft nine months after Islamist militants destroyed two similar planes, officials said.
The U.S. Air Force’s F-35A version of the tri-service Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has begun flight testing with external stores at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., plane-maker Lockheed Martin said Feb. 20.
BONN, Germany — Canadian plans to set up a logistics hub at the German Köln Bonn Airport, announced by Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay during a Feb. 14 visit to Ottawa by his German counterpart, Thomas de Maizière, have been rejected.
MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Feb. 20 that Russia had launched "unprecedented" steps to boost the army as he played up his strongman credentials ahead of March 4 presidential polls he is likely to win.
TEHRAN — Iran’s military announced Feb. 20 that it has launched four days of maneuvers in the south of the country aimed at boosting anti-air defenses protecting nuclear sites.
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. military officer warned Feb. 19 that intervention in Syria would be “very difficult” and said it would be “premature” to arm the besieged country’s opposition movement.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military will deploy a battery of rocket interceptors from its “Iron Dome” system in the Tel Aviv region on Feb. 20, a military spokesman said Feb. 19.
SEOUL — North Korea warned Feb. 19 it will bombard islands near the disputed Yellow Sea border with South Korea if an upcoming naval firing drill by Seoul violates its territorial waters.
WASHINGTON — A “good number” of unmanned U.S. military and intelligence drones are operating in the skies over Syria, monitoring the Syrian military’s attacks against opposition forces and civilians, NBC News reported.
SINGAPORE — Beijing-based Yotaisc Science and Technology Development Co. unveiled the X200 vertical take-off/landing (VTOL) UAV for the first time at the Singapore Airshow.
The U.S. Defense Department needs to be more open to purchasing foreign-made weapons and equipment, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said.
SINGAPORE — Lockheed Martin announced plans at the 2012 Singapore Airshow to create two C-130J variants.
SINGAPORE — Lockheed Martin is offering F-16 fighter customers a new variant dubbed the “Viper,” which is intended to better operate with fifth-generation fighters.
SINGAPORE — A competition pitting Northrop Grumman against Raytheon to supply Active Electronically Scanning Array (AESA) radars for retrofits for F-16 fighter upgrade programs in South Korea and Taiwan is heating up at the Singapore Airshow.
NEW DELHI — The Indian Air Force (IAF) will begin inducting Russian-made medium-lift Mi-17V5 helicopters Feb. 17, according to an Indian Defence Ministry release.
LONDON — British arms manufacturer BAE Systems said Feb. 16 it held out hope that India may reverse its decision to negotiate a mega-contract for 126 fighter jets exclusively with France’s Dassault Aviation.
PARIS — France and Britain are to launch a joint project to build combat drones during a visit by British Prime Minister David Cameron to Paris, newspaper Les Echos reported Feb. 16.
JERUSALEM — Israel is to buy advanced combat training jets from an Italian company as part of a defense-offset package deal valued at about $2 billion, the Israeli defense ministry said Feb. 16.
SINGAPORE — Canada’s CAE will set up a military and civilian helicopter training center with Brunei as part of a multipurpose training operation, CAE and the Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) announced at the Singapore Airshow on Feb. 15.
SINGAPORE — Beijing-based Yotaisc Science and Technology Development Co. unveiled the X200 vertical take-off/landing (VTOL) UAV for the first time at the Singapore Airshow.
BRUSSELS — NATO will spend 3.0 billion euros ($3.9 billion) to buy and operate five U.S.-built drones over 20 years in an effort to fill a gap exposed in the Libyan air war, an official said Feb. 15.
The U.S. Air Force has no immediate need of an MQ-X next-generation replacement for the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned combat aircraft, the service’s intelligence chief said.
The United States is paying close attention to Syria’s weapons inventory, especially its stockpile of chemical weapons, U.S. State Department officials said.
ROME — Italy will cut its acquisition of Joint Strike Fighters from 131 to 90, Defense Minister Giampaolo Di Paola told the Italian Parliament on Feb 15.
BRASILIA — Defense Minister Celso Amorim said Wednesday that Brazil may make a decision on awarding a multibillion-dollar contract for 36 fighter jets in the first half of this year.
SINGAPORE — Indonesia’s air force will purchase a fleet of Airbus Military C295 transporters, the two sides announced in the first significant defense contract of the Singapore Airshow, which opened Feb 14.
The Pentagon has slowed down its purchases of the new AIM-120D version of the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) because of problems with producing its rocket motors, the U.S. Air Force’s top acquisition official said.
The U.S. Defense Department is banking on international sales of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter over the next five years to keep the program cost stable, according to a senior Pentagon official.
SINGAPORE — Coast guards in two Asian countries have struck deals with Sikorsky Aircraft to supply helicopters for search and rescue and other duties, the company announced at the Singapore air show as it opened here Feb 14.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper opened the door Feb. 14 for a possible cut in the number of F-35 fighter jets Canada will buy, after reports that the United States was scaling back its purchase plans.
The U.S. Air Force’s top acquisition official singled out the service’s Boeing KC-46 tanker and its new Long Range Strike bomber for praise during a speech at a defense conference in Arlington, Va., on Feb. 14.
ISLAMABAD — Islamabad publicly admitted Feb. 14 that it had allowed NATO to use Pakistani airspace to fly supplies into Afghanistan, despite a more than two-month blockade on the border crossings.
BERN — The Swiss government is standing by its choice of the Gripen jet to replace its ageing fighter fleet, the defense ministry said on Feb. 14, after reported military fears that the aircraft was not up to the job.
OTTAWA — Canadian and German defense ministers on Feb. 14 announced a deal to allow the Canadian military to set up a hub at the Koln-Bonn Airport to expand its global reach.
The Pentagon says it will save $75 billion over the next five years by reorganizing its investment spending, according to spending figures for the fiscal 2013 budget proposal released Feb. 13.
The new U.S. Air Force 2013 budget proposal trims the service’s spending to $154.3 billion, down from $162.5 billion the year before.
SINGAPORE — Saudi Arabia has signed a deal with the U.S. that will make it the launch customer for Boeing’s AH-6i light attack helicopter.
GENEVA — Swiss Defence Minister Ueli Maurer had no knowledge of a critical report on the Gripen jet, the aircraft chosen to replace Switzerland’s ageing F5 fighter fleet, his spokeswoman told Swiss radio Feb. 13.
SINGAPORE — Boeing said Feb. 13 it hopes to decide in the next few months whether to put a scaled-down version of the P-8 Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft’s mission system into a smaller platform.
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