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that Russia had conducted “extensive and frequent submarine patrols throughout the North Atlantic and Norwegian Sea” as a part of a strategy to threaten nearly all of NATO’s maritime forces.

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Jura said:

according to DoDBuzz Norway to Order Five P-8 Recon Planes

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Jura said:

I found also

Norway plans to buy five new P-8 Poseidons

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and
Norway To Buy 5 P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft

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Jura said:

LOL Jeff we both seem to like this Norwegian acquisition:
Nov 29, 2016



Nov 29, 2016
yes, it's good news!

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Navy Setting Up V-22 Osprey COD Training Detachment
The Navy has established a detachment at a Marine Corps air station to train crews and maintenance personnel for its future CMV-22B Osprey carrier-onboard-delivery (COD) aircraft.

Airborne Command and Control Logistics Wing, which is responsible for the Navy’s two fleet logistics support squadrons that fly the C-2A Greyhound COD aircraft, is setting up a detachment at the Marine Corps’ MV-22B training site, Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C. The detachment will be associated with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Training Squadron (VMMT) 204, the Corps’ squadron in charge of V-22 crew and maintenance training.

The new Navy detachment, ordered in a Dec. 1 Navy directive, is called Airborne Command and Control Logistics Wing Medium Tilt-Rotor Training Detachment 204. The parent wing is headquartered at Naval Air Station Point Mugu, Calif., home of several its E-2 squadrons.

The new unit, under an officer in charge, is a departure from the current set-up with C-2A crews being trained by the E-2 Hawkeye training squadron, Carrier Airborne Early Squadron 120 at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., because of some similarity of the C-2A and the E-2, from which the C-2A was derived.

The Navy plans to procure 44 CMV-22Bs beginning in 2018, with first deliveries scheduled for 2020. The new COD aircraft will differ from the MV-22B by modification with a high-frequency radio for long-range communications, extra fuel tankage and a public address system for the cabin.

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FORBIN said:

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In addition maybe " Donald " will arrive well coz not grave a small percentage but always boring planned this year a F-18, a E-2c and a MH-60 Sqn stand down and when i see some activity somewhere... it is necessary be vigilant

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Jura said:

in case you didn't know (LOL I didn't) New T-X Request for Proposals Tees Up Major Fight Among Defense Primes

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The U.S. Air Force has opened a potentially $16 billion competition to develop a new T-X trainer jet.

The service on Friday announced it has begun accepting bids for the contract, which is expected to be awarded in 2017.

The Air Force wants to buy 350 aircraft to replace its current Northrop Grumman Corp.-made T-38 Talon trainers at a time when the service needs to replenish its fighter pilot ranks.

“In terms of both providing realistic, holistic training and reducing flying hours on our fifth-generation platforms, T-X is a program we’ve got to get right,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said in the statement.

Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, commander of Air Education and Training Command, added, “Pilot training gaps widen and continue to do so every year as the service brings on more fifth-generation aircraft.”

With the Air Force seeking more fighter pilots

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, the goal of the program is to acquire two-seat trainer jets that mimic the combat aircraft pilots will fly.

For example, more than 50 pilots have already been trained to operate the F-35A Lightning II at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, since the first Joint Strike Fighter touched down at the base in 2014.

“Our ability to get the most out of our fifth-generation aircraft depends on success in the Advanced Pilot Training program” also known as the T-X program, Goldfein said.

The contract designates the first aircraft to reach initial operational capability in fiscal year 2024 or earlier.

The so-called request for proposals covers delivery of the first five aircraft,including engineering and manufacturing development, low-rate initial production, full-rate production and sustainment transition support, the release said.

Additional provisions are included for ground support systems, “such as training systems, mission planning and processing systems, support equipment and spares,” the release said.

Boeing Co.,

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, is one of two teams competing for the program with a new design. But unlike Northrop, Boeing is the only team so far to offer a twin canted vertical tail design, mimicking fourth- and fifth-generation fighter jets such as the F-22 Raptor, F-35 and F/A-18 Hornet.

Other vendor teams, such as Lockheed Martin Corp. and Korea Aerospace Industries, and Raytheon Co., Leonardo-Finmeccanica and CAE Inc., are offering modification designs to current aircraft, but are not competing in clean-sheet designs.

Sierra Nevada Corp. and Turkish Aerospace Industries are also reportedly partnering on their own design for a T-X trainer, one that could be more fuel-efficient,

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The T-38 aircraft, first produced by Northrop in 1959, is used to prep pilots for “front-line fighter and bomber aircraft such as the F-15E Strike Eagle, F-15C Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, B-1B Lancer, A-10 Thunderbolt and F-22 Raptor,” according to the service.

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Jura said:

Wednesday at 10:08 PM
indeed: "Congress handed down guidelines in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act requiring the Air Force to work only with a fixed-price contract — locking in a price and putting the company on the hook for cost overruns. Yet the NDAA also made a provision for the defense secretary “to waive this limitation if the Secretary determines such a waiver is in the national security interests,” the release states."
Air Force Launches $6.9 Billion JSTARS Competition
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The US Air Force has launched the bidding phase in a $6.9 billion competition to select a replacement the Northrop Grumman E-8C JSTARS ground surveillance fleet with a business jet-class aircraft.

The USAF issued the final draft of the request for proposals on 28 December to several bidding teams, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop. Including production options through Fiscal 2026, the JSTARS recaptilisation contract calls for supplying 17 each of aircraft, surveillance radars, communications systems and battle management command and control suites.

In defiance of a stated preference by Congress, the final RFP structures the development contract as a cost-plus incentive fee deal, the USAF says. The report on the National Defense Authorization Act passed earlier this month calls on the USAF to structure the JSTARS Recapitalistion contract as firm fixed-priced deal. But the next sentence in the report allows the Secretary of Defense to waive that requirement if he deems it in the interest of national security.

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter approved such a waiver after an extended discussion within the Pentagon, the air force says.

“Given the language in this year’s defense policy bill, we took additional time before releasing the JSTARS request for proposal. With the support of the Department on the importance of JSTARS to national security, we are moving out to deliver this critical [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] capability,” Secretary of the Air Force Deborah James says.

The E-8C mission was conceived by Northrop and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the 1980s. Northrop’s APY-7 ground surveillance radars were installed on a fleet of 17 used Boeing 707s. A team of battle managers onboard the aircraft would analyse the radar data showing mainly the distant movement of enemy vehicles, then forward targeting information to other aircraft with weapons or to commanders on the ground. The concept initially proved its worth in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, when an experimental JSTARS system detected a major ground maneouvre attempted by the Iraqi army in a sandstorm.

Twenty-five years later, the 707-based fleet is showing its age while surveillance capability has advanced and proliferated around the services. The US Navy, for example, is fielding Raytheon’s advanced airborne sensor on a subset of the 737-based Boeing P-8A Poseidon fleet, creating a ground surveillance capability similar to the JSTARS. This proposal solicitation is a full and open competition with an anticipated contract award in fiscal year 2018, to have assets available for initial operational capability by the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024, or earlier.

The USAF wants to modernise the new JSTARS fleet with a new platform, with Boeing offering a 737-700, Northrop bidding a Gulfstream G550 and Lockheed proposing a Bombardier Global 6000. The new JSTARS fleet also will feature a new sensor — either Northrop’s or Raytheon’s latest wide area surveillance radars.

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