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The first Australian Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft completed its first flight on Nov. 9 at a company facility. The MQ-4C flew out of Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale Aircraft […]

Australia hosted the other two AUKUS partners in an exercise of unmanned undersea warfare technology, the Pentagon said Monday.  The U.S. Defense Department said this event was explicitly part of […]

The Australian government is expected within a year to announce the shipbuilding company that will work with the U.K. to build its next-generation nuclear-powered attack submarines, a Royal Australian Navy […]

The Navy’s sub boss recently said the tripartite AUKUS agreement’s optimal pathway would have the U.S. sell at least three attack submarines (SSNs) to Australia in the 2030s. Following his […]

A Navy official said Australian payments to help the U.S. submarine industrial base (SIB) under the AUKUS agreement will largely be directed to increase attack submarine (SSN) production above current […]

The State Department approved a potential $300 million Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Iraq for Bell Helicopter [TXT] Contracted Logistics Support (CLS). The  Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress […]

The Italian corporations Fincantieri and Leonardo said recently they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop systems to help protect underwater infrastructure. The companies said the Oct. 27 MoU […]

This week Switzerland signed an agreement with the U.S. government to buy Lockheed Martin [LMT] Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles via Foreign Military Sales (FMS), the […]

The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $364 million firm-fixed-price contract order for six Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk helicopters on Oct. 26 for Norway. The DoD contract announcement said delivery of […]

Several Navy officials on Wednesday told a House panel why several legislative proposals to enact the tripartite AUKUS agreement are needed this year, or parts of the submarine cooperation plan […]