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Matt Jouppi
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Senior Program Analyst at Aviation Week Network. F-22 & ATF fan. Following, retweets and links do not equate to endorsement.
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🚨🇺🇸 The US Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $4.761 billion contract for PAC-3 MSE missiles. This is almost entirely funded by Foreign Military Sales customers.
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When we saw pics of that EO aperture on Proteus years ago I said to Joe, “well that’s sure to be for the 180!”
MechDesign.xyz@MechDesignxyz
Screenshots from the RQ-180 (?) that appeared in Larissa Greece and this sensor carried by Scaled Composites (a NG subsidiary) Proteus. Look very similar, probably not a coincidence! sources: theaviationist.com/2026/04/06/inc… instagram.com/p/DVvdACljP56/
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Lady of Larissa Flies Again: Incredible New Footage Emerges of the Secretive RQ-180 Spy Drone
New videos give an even clearer view - unquestionably our best ever - of the legendary classified stealth drone, previously seen making an emergency landing in Greece last month.
Story: theaviationist.com/2026/04/06/inc…
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"In a final twist after the weapons officer was rescued, two transport planes that would carry the commandos and the airmen to safety got stuck at a remote base in Iran. Commanders decided to fly in three new planes to extract all the U.S. military personnel and the airmen, and they blew up the two disabled planes rather than have them fall into Iranian hands." -NYT
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The Trump Admin is requesting historic amounts of money for munitions procurement. Here are the figures by Appropriations Account:
Missile Procurement, Army
FY26 base enacted: $7.3 billion
FY27 base request: $12.1b
FY27 reconciliation request: $18.7b
FY27 total: $30.8b
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A long-awaited first #GCAP contract has been issued to @EdgewingLtd by the GCAP Agency or GIGO. Worth £686 million, the money will support gearing up "design and engineering activities" for the new fighter. More details soon.
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🚨🇺🇸🇦🇺 AIM-260A Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM) FMS to Australia clears Congressional review
The possible Foreign Military Sale of up to 450 JATMs, 5 Integration Test Vehicles, 30 Guided Test Vehicles and associated equipment & services, worth an estimated $3.16 billion, was formally notified to Congress quietly on January 23. DSCA did not publicly announce the sale, despite posting numerous other high profile sales during that period in late January.
15 days having elapsed since the transmittal of the formal Congressional Notification, the sale now has approval to proceed to final negotiations between Australia and the US Government on the proposed Letter of Offer & Acceptance.
The USG referred my inquiries regarding the status of the LoA to the Australian government, who did not respond.
Carter Johnston@__CJohnston__
JATM is now available for export request, on a case-by-case basis, for U.S. allies that operate the AIM-120D-3 AMRAAM, per U.S. officials. Priority will go to Indo-Pacific allies, and may not match the pace and size of Australia's purchase.
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🇺🇸 ~4000 Tomahawks were in inventory, so this would be 21% of that.
Not a trivial amount, but not an insurmountable replacement requirement.
Tomahawk production capacity is 600/year, increasing to 1000/year. The Navy needs to place the orders. Their procurement has been anemic.
Dan Lamothe@DanLamothe
SCOOP: The U.S. military has fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles in four weeks of war with Iran, burning through the precision weapons at a rate that has alarmed some Pentagon officials and prompted internal discussions about how to make more available.
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A rare black “Tomahawk” cruise missile mock-up has appeared at a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ceremony celebrating the integration of Tomahawk launch capability on one of its destroyers. I feel like I’ve come across sightings of this unusual black Tomahawk quite recently. twz.com/sea/black-toma…
笑脸男人@lfx160219
The crest of the USS Arizona SSN803.The new VPM module tomahawk launch and the ghost of the USS Arizona BB39 battleship. Arizona will be the first VPM boat & first submarine to get hypersonic missiles.
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High-resolution photographs clicked recently offer an excellent visual comparison between two of the most important strategic and conventional weapons for the B-52. The AGM-181 Long Range Stand Off Weapon (LRSO) was observed in California (via @JarodMHamilton), while the AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM-ER) was documented in the UK (via @TallGlenn85). Both weapons, and their follow on variants will help keep the B-52 relevant for decades to come. (🔗 to 📸 👇)
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Debrief: ‘Lady of Larissa’ Adds Details To Classified UAS Lore
aviationweek.com/defense/aircra…
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❗️🇺🇸🇯🇵 The White House confirms that SM-3 IIA, the United States' most sophisticated theater ballistic missile defense interceptor, will have its production quadrupled from 24 per year to 96 per year.
RTX had only specified an increase of 2x-4x, so we did not know exactly what the target was.
SM-3 is a joint program between the US & Japan.
The White House also announced "the two countries will scope Japan’s future role in increased AMRAAM production capacity".
Colby Badhwar@ColbyBadhwar
It's important to note that this investment by Raytheon predates the new framework agreement with the Pentagon, which will see production increase even further: SM-6 from 125/year to +500/year SM-3 IB & SM-3 IIA will both see a 2-4x increase
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Defensie zet een nieuwe stap in de deelname aan het Amerikaanse kennis- en innovatieprogramma voor Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). Dit is een initiatief om onbemenste luchtsystemen te ontwikkelen👇 bit.ly/40Gb6Py
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A US F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at US air base in the Middle East after it was struck by what is believed to be Iranian fire -CNN
A CENTCOM spokesman says that the pilot is in stable condition.
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This aircraft seen over Larissa, Greece is not a B-2 like the local Greek news reported or an RQ-170, but is in fact best imagery ever published of the RQ-180, an undisclosed low observable drone used by the USAF. Location suggests use in the Iran conflict onlarissa.gr/2026/03/18/mys…
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