Japan’s Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that it was scrapping plans to outfit upgraded Japanese Air Self-Defense Force F-15Js with Lockheed Martin’s AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASM), in a… Continue reading "LRASMs Dropped From F-15 Japan Super Interceptor Upgrade List"
This week was very busy at Overt Defense. We covered a range of topics, ranging from the conflict in Israel to new technology developments including the palletization of JASSMs and… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (17-21 May)"
The United States Air Force has named its program testing the deployment of palletized long range munitions from cargo aircraft “Rapid Dragon”. The new name for what was previously known… Continue reading "USAF Cargo Aircraft Palletized Munitions Program Now “Rapid Dragon”"
Lauri Puranen, the director of the Finnish HX program, which aims to procure Finland’s next-generation fighter posted an update on his blog. It announces that the final bids for HX… Continue reading "Finnish HX Fighter Program Director Update: Final Bids Coming"
The Technical Modernization Program of the Polish Armed Forces (PMT) will focus on the F-16C/D Block 52+ currently in service. 48 of ‘Fighting Falcons’ were delivered to Poland in 2006… Continue reading "Is Poland Planning to Modernize its F-16s?"
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s plans to upgrade its F-15J fleet faces the possibility of significant delays, following the discovery that setup costs for the upgrade work are significantly higher… Continue reading "Skyrocketing Setup Costs Likely To Delay Japan’s Super Interceptor Upgrades"
On 28 July, Boeing announced that it had signed a Direct Commercial Sale agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to support the upgrading of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s F-15Js.… Continue reading "Boeing Partners With Mitsubishi Heavy Industries For F-15J Upgrades"
In November 2019, the US Air Force retired its inventory of Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missiles (AGM-86C/D CALCM) which had been in service since 1986. While not particularly well known compared… Continue reading "CALCM and The Birth of Cruise Missile Diplomacy"
Taurus GmbH has proposed integrating their KEPD 350 air-to-surface cruise missile onto the Japanese Air Self-Defence Force’s (JASDF)F-2A multirole aircraft at the DSEI Japan exhibition in Chiba, Tokyo. Scale models… Continue reading "Taurus Proposes KEPD 350 For Japan’s F-2As"
In his statement regarding the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said the US had been doing “treaty-complaint” research on mobile land-based conventionally armed ballistic… Continue reading "Mobile Medium Range Missile, the Army’s post-INF Weapon"