Northrop Grumman has selected CAES to provide M-Code global positioning system (GPS) antennas for the US Army’s Precision Guidance Kits (PGK).
The estimated value of the contract is approximately $24m.
As part of this award, CAES will deliver a total of 80,000 M-Code antennas to Northrop Grumman over a period of three years to support the production of PGK for the US Army.
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A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion maritime patrol aircraft is pictured at RNZAF Base Auckland in Whenuapai on 24 January. The service’s fleet of three P-3K2s is being retired at the end of January following 57 years of service. (Tim Fish)
The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) will retire the last three of its P-3K2 Orion maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) at the end of January 2023 after 57 years of service.
At RNZAF Base Auckland in Whenuapai on 24 January, No 5 Squadron, which operates and maintains the aircraft, completed a final flypast of the three aircraft in formation.
CAVS will contribute to participating countries seeking to increase the mobility of their armies, including in Arctic conditions. (Patria)
The Finnish-led 6×6 Common Armoured Vehicle System (CAVS) programme continues to progress, Janes learnt at Defence IQ’s International Armoured Vehicles (IAV) 2023 conference being held in London from 23 to 26 January.
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assesses that the design of the new VTOL UAV by KAI and Northrop Grumman could be influenced by the US company’s MQ-8C UAV (pictured).
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Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) signed an agreement with Northrop Grumman to develop vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can be operated from warships and coastguard vessels.
Janes understands that the Republic of Korea (RoK) Navy plans to acquire around 20 of these VTOL UAVs.
Lockheed Martin has received first light from the Directed Energy Interceptor for Manoeuvre Short-Range Air Defence (M-SHORAD) System (DEIMOS) during a recently conducted laser lab demonstration.
The demonstration was conducted to assess and validate the optical performance of the laser in line with required design parameters of the system.
According to the company, first light is used to measure the weapon system’s expected beam quality to test end-to-end performance of Lockheed Martin’s low-cost Spectral Beam Combination (SBC) architecture.
A Chinese company that is a leading provider of materials for lithium battery manufacturers has reportedly partnered with a South African mining firm to establish Zimbabwe’s first lithium ore processing plant. The company’s founder was also an early investor in China AmperexTechnology Co. Ltd. (CATL), the largest manufacturer in the world of lithium batteries for electric vehicles, with an estimated global market share of 34 percent.
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France’s Safran Group has offered the AASM-Hammer smart bomb to Indonesia for integration in the Dassault Rafale, KAI T-50I, and potentially the KAI KF-21 jet. (Safran)
The Indonesian government is in talks with France’s Safran Group for the potential acquisition and domestic assembly of Armement Air‐Sol Modulaire (AASM) Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range (Hammer) smart guided bombs.
The first of six F-35As that Turkey officially received before being expelled from the programme in 2019. Washington and Ankara are now holding talks to settle outstanding legal issues. (Lockheed Martin)
The United States and Turkey held a second round of talks geared at settling outstanding issues related to Ankara’s expulsion from the international Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme.
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The monstrous Piasecki PA-97 Helistat experimental heavy-lift aircraft looked like something out of a steam-punk fever dream or a doodle on a grade schooler’s paper. With a large helium-inflated blimp envelope flanked by four repurposed helicopter fuselages all connected to a rickety framework, it isn’t too hard to see how the bizarre contraption eventually met its demise during a flight test in 1986.