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☆ Al Qaeda's new leader Adel has $10 million bounty on his head
  + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Michael Georgy | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
Zawahiri's death piled pressure on the group to choose a strategic leader who can carefully plan deadly operations and run a jihadi network, experts on al Qaeda say. The department’s Rewards for Justice programme is offering up to $10 million for information on Adel, whom it says is a member of "al Qaeda’s leadership council” and heads the organisation’s military committee. He and other Al Qaeda leaders were placed under house arrest in April 2003 by Iran, which released him and four others in exchange for an Iranian diplomat who was kidnapped in Yemen. OPERATIVE TO LEADERAdel, one of the few remaining al Qaeda old guard, has been close to the central command for decades, experts say. Adel gained more jihadi credentials after he joined other Arab militants fighting Soviet occupation troops in Afghanistan, where he eventually headed a training camp before becoming a senior figure in al Qaeda.
☆ Australia to spend $2 billion on 40 U.S. Black Hawk choppers
  + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Lewis Jackson | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
SYDNEY, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Australia confirmed on Wednesday it would buy 40 Black Hawk military helicopters from the United States for an estimated A$2.8 billion ($1.96 billion), finalising a sale signed off by the U.S. State Department last August. The Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) UH-60M Black Hawks will replace the Army's fleet of MRH-90 Taipan choppers, which have been plagued for years by maintenance issues. "We're confident that we can get that from the Black Hawks. A 2021 decision to ditch French-made submarines for nuclear submarines to be built by the United States and Britain sparked a bitter diplomatic dispute with France. Australian industry will be involved in logistics, warehousing, engineering as well as the helicopter's global supply chain, said the Defence Department in a statement.
☆ Lockheed Martin Protests Loss of Military Helicopter Contract
  + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Doug Cameron | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Black Hawk helicopters, made by Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky arm, flying near the U.S. military base in Mosul, Iraq, in a 2006 photo. Lockheed Martin Corp. said it has filed a protest against the Army’s decision to award Textron Inc. with the contract to build a new fleet of helicopters that analysts estimate could be worth up to $80 billion. The Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program is one of the Pentagon’s top priorities, aiming to replace hundreds or even thousands of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters made by Lockheed’s Sikorsky arm.
☆ Lockheed's Sikorsky seeks review of Black Hawk replacement contract
  + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Dec 28 (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp's (LMT.N) Sikorsky unit on Wednesday sought a review of the U.S. Army's decision to award a contract for its next-generation helicopter to Textron Inc's (TXT.N) Bell unit. The company, which filed its protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), said it had partner Boeing Co's (BA.N) support. Earlier this month, the Army ended a years-long competition aimed at finding a replacement for the Black Hawk utility helicopter after it assigned the contract to Textron's unit. The filing of a protest by Lockheed and Boeing triggers a formal legal review from the GAO and requires a decision within 100 days, the agency said. The Army acknowledges Sikorsky's decision to file for protest and will comply with GAO's requirements, said a spokesperson for U.S. Army Program Executive Office - Aviation.
☆ U.S. Army awards Black Hawk replacement contract to Textron's Bell
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Idrees Ali Mike Stone | Idrees Ali | Mike Stone | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army on Monday awarded the contract for its next-generation helicopter to Textron Inc's (TXT.N) Bell unit, ending a years-long competition for the technology that will replace the Black Hawk utility helicopter. The Army's "Future Vertical Lift" competition is aimed at finding a replacement as the Army looks to retire more than 2,000 medium-class UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters built by Sikorsky since the 1970s. The Army was looking for an aircraft capable of moving about a dozen troops 400 nautical miles. Ultimately, the contract is potentially worth around $70 billion - over decades - depending on how many the Army and U.S. allies order, the Army told reporters on Monday evening. In the FLARAA competition was Bell's V-280 "Valor," a tiltrotor aircraft that has reached speeds in excess of 340 mph (547 km) according to the Army.
☆ 2 little-known intel agencies are helping US partners keep an eye on Russia's and China's frontline forces
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Stavros Atlamazoglou | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Two little-known US intelligence agencies have made significant contributions to countering Russia in Ukraine. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office have gathered and distributed valuable information about Russian activity. Little-known intel agenciesA National Reconnaissance Office payload is launched into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in September 2017. US Air Force/Senior Airman Ian DudleyThe US response to Russia's war in Ukraine has pulled the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office out of the shadows. NRO satellites have many customers, but the NGA is probably the most reliant on the satellites operated by the NRO.
☆ Wells Fargo downgrades Lockheed Martin, believes defense company will lag behind competitors
  + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Defense company Lockheed Martin is not expected to grow as much as competitors do in the coming years, according to Wells Fargo. Lockheed Martin will be in particularly bad shape if it doesn't win the Future Vertical Lift contract, which has a role in producing future long-range assault aircrafts. This underlies the fact that defense stocks can slide depending on the volatility of geopolitics, Akers said. Shares of Lockheed Martin currently trade at a premium compared to peers, Akers said. Akers also downgraded L3Harris Technologies to equal weight from over weight, while remaining equal weight on Northrop Grumman and overweight on General Dynamics .
☆ The night the Lord of the Skies got away
  + stars: | 2022-07-22 | by ( Noah Hurowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +38 min
It was May 1985, and Ramirez had only been with the Border Patrol for two and a half years. But he also knew that at the end of that road, just before the international port of entry, was a Border Patrol station. The Lord of the SkiesWithin a decade of that traffic stop, Amado would be the most significant drug trafficker in Mexico. It's the border," Ford told me recently when I reached him by phone. Ford and Amado didn't make a deal that night, but Ford said they agreed to "something tentative."
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