Lockheed Touts Aegis BMD Weapon System

Posted at: Tue Jun 6th, 2006

KAUAI, HI, June 6, 2006 -- The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System with a prototype signal processor successfully tracked several advanced ballistic missile targets in separate tests off the coast of Hawaii in April. Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] develops the Aegis BMD Weapon System a...

Boeing's ScanEagle UAV to Demonstrate Biological Warfare Agents Detection

Posted at: Tue Jun 6th, 2006

ST. LOUIS, June 05, 2006 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and a team of U.S. bio-defense companies will modify the ScanEagle unmanned air vehicle (UAV) to look for biological warfare agents as part of a program funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Indonesian Air Force to buy six more Sukhois

Posted at: Tue Jun 6th, 2006

The Indonesian Air Force has unveiled a plan to upgrade its aging combat squadron by buying six Sukhoi warplanes from Russia in a trade deal worth an estimated US$1 billion. Air Force commander Air Chief Marshall Herman Prayitno told the House of Representatives' Commission I on defen...

Pentagon restructures Northrop's Global Hawk

Posted at: Tue Jun 6th, 2006

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon told Congress on Monday that national security needs made it necessary to continue a $6 billion Northrop Grumman Corp. unmanned surveillance drone program, despite major cost overruns. But Pentagon acquisitions chief Ken Krieg told lawmakers the Glo...

CENTAF releases airpower summary for June 5

Posted at: Tue Jun 6th, 2006

6/6/2006 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the airpower summary for June 5. In Afghanistan June 4, Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt IIs and a B-1 Lancer responded to coalition forces taking mortar, rocket-propelled-grenade and small-arms fire from...