The US Navy has awarded Raytheon Electronic Systems a $5 million contract for continuing engineering and maintenance support for its Relocatable-Over-the-Horizon Radar (ROTHR) systems. The contract includes options which, if exercised, will bring the value of the work to nearly $20 million. The work will be performed in Chesapeake, Virginia, and at Raytheon's Sudbury, Massachusetts, engineering site. The radar is used to provide long-range warning.
Source: Flight International
Italy has followed fellow Eurofighter partner nation Spain and placed a long-trailed follow-on order for up to 24 examples of the multirole jet. Disclosed on 23 December, the order, placed via the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency, will see the new fighters replace the Italian air force’s current Tranche ...
Two US naval aviators safely ejected from their Boeing F/A-18F over the Red Sea after the jet was mistakenly targeted by one of the guided missile ships escorting the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman.
Sweden’s Defence Materiel Administration has awarded Saab a SKr466 million ($42 million) contract to support further development of the nation’s Gripen C/D fighter fleet.
