🔷 Saved Rounds! 2.27.24

Welcome to Tuesday's Saved Rounds, where we send out all the goodies we couldn't squeeze into our Sunday newsletter.

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They Said It
“The nation that can cycle technology into military advantage faster will win. That’s period dot; that’s how it goes.”

— Col. Nicole Petrucci, commander of Space Delta 3

Zoom in

The Pentagon went from a defense industry it considered too large to sustain, to one now too small to surge.

Zoom in here to learn more about the efforts to revive it.

In that Number

60 percent

Lockheed Martin aims to increase HIMARS production by 60 percent this year to 96 units. The Army wants to build 500 HIMARS annually by 2028.

Saved Rounds

• ST Engineering unveils a wing-in-ground effect vehicle, citing Marine Corp interest as a highspeed infantry fighting vehicle (click for pic)

• Singapore set a $15B defense budget for 2024

• Turkey and Greece joined Europe’s Sky Shield Initiative, bringing the total number of countries participating in the German-led initiative to 21

• Japan brought 14 companies to the Singapore Airshow as it tries to grow its defense exports

• General Atomics expanded its reach into the Japanese defense market

• Saab is waiting out political drama over sending Gripen fighters to Ukraine

• Hungary is buying 4 more Saab Gripens, adding to their 14-jet fleet

• KAI is integrating German’s Diehl IRIS-T missiles onto the FA-50 and KF-21 fighters

• India is close to buying 15 Airbus C295 maritime patrol aircraft variants

• Peraton revealed it booked over $1.2B in classified space and intelligence contracts last year

• Australia committed another $33m for Ukraine military aid

• The NGA is expanding commercial satellite imagery and data analytics via its $290m Luno program

• The UK is sending 200 more Brimstone missiles to Ukraine

• Elbit Systems unveiled a new tactical drone that can fly for 24 hours

• Croatia received 6 of 12 planned Rafale fighters from France

• Singapore’s Air Force is retiring its fleet of Heron 1 and Hermes 450 drones

• Aero Vodochody delivered its first batch of 12 L-39NG trainer/light-attack aircraft to the Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF)

• Canadia is sending 800 SkyRanger drones to Ukraine

• The Marine Corps passed an audit—a first for a US military branch

• Pivotal delivered the first 4 of 8 BlackFly eVTOLs to the Air Force for evaluation trials

• The ACMI is establishing a first-of-its kind munitions technologies campus in Indiana

• Northrop Grumman demoed edge device for soldiers that works without a cloud connection

• JetZero is set to flight demo a scaled version of its novel blended wing body BWB aircraft concept

And Finally…

• OpsLab was awarded a SBIR Phase III contract to automate the building of flying squadron schedules (15 years late to need!)

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