The commander of U.S. 7th Fleet last week said recent experimentation with the America-class USS Tripoli (LHA-7) amphibious assault ship loaded with Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35B fighters tested how the vessel, dubbed an “assault carrier,” can work with a Navy aircraft carrier strike group. ...
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General Electric [GE] said on Sept. 12 that it has tested out the company’s second XA100 adaptive cycle engine at the U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tullahoma, Tenn., for the Air Force’s Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP). The completion of the ...
The Navy awarded Raytheon Technologies’ Pratt & Whitney [RTX] an undefinitized contract modification worth up to $4.385 billion on June 14 for almost 180 F-35 engines. The award adds scope to a previously awarded contract to produce and deliver Lot 15 and 16 F-35 propulsion systems, ...
The government of Canada confirmed it has rejected Boeing [BA] as a finalist in the government’ project to replace its 76 aging CF-18 Hornet fighters. The government is seeking to acquire 88 new fighter jets for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in a competitive process and on Dec. 1 it ...
The Navy and Raytheon Technologies [RTX] conducted the first weapon drop of the StormBreaker bomb from an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, the company said Monday. During this test based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., an F-35B from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron-23 (VX-23) used the bomb as ...
The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $1 billion modification on Sept. 24 for a previous advance acquisition contract, exercising options to produce and deliver 16 Lot 15 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters. This purchase includes 10 aircraft for the Air Force and six for the Marine Corps. The Air Force ...