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Kongsberg Aviation Maintenance Services has been awarded a contract by the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) “to overhaul and make ready for sale an additional batch of [ex-Royal Norwegian Air Force Lockheed Martin] F-16 aircraft”.

Announcing the deal on 24 May as worth NKr200 million ($20.9 million), Kongsberg says the NDMA “has entered into a contract with Draken International for the sale of up to 12 former Norwegian F-16s and is in the process of completing the sale of another 32 aircraft to Romania”.

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Federal Express Corp. (Fedex), Memphis, Tennessee, was awarded a modification (P00015) on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract HTC71117DC001 in the amount of $214,839,144. This modification provides international and domestic small package delivery services. Work will be performed on a global basis. The period of performance is from Oct. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022. This modification brings the total cumulative value of the contract to $2,566,003,080 . U.S. Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, is the contracting activity.

United Parcel Service Co., Louisville, Kentucky, was awarded a modification (P00016) on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract HTC71117DC003 in the amount of $215,072,085. This modification provides international and domestic small package delivery services. Work will be performed on a global basis. The period of performance is from Oct. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022. This modification brings the total cumulative value of the contract to $2,565,732,123 . U.S. Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, is the contracting activity.
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Polar Air Cargo Worldwide Inc., Purchase, New York, was awarded a modification (P00014) on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract HTC71117DC002 in the amount of $21,014,553. This modification provides international and domestic small package delivery services. Work will be performed on a global basis. The period of performance is from Oct. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022. This modification brings the total cumulative value of the contract to $220,021,541. U.S. Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, is the contracting activity.
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Top Aces Wins Contract to Train USAF with F-16 Advanced Aggressor Fighter Fleet
Five-year contract worth up to $175 million
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Top Aces, the world's only commercial owner/operator of F-16, today announced that it was selected under the USAF Combat Air Force Contracted Air Support program to provide advanced adversary air training to pilots at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) in Florida and Luke AFB in Arizona.

Top Aces will begin training in support of USAF F-35A and F-22 fleets later this month. Valued at up to $175 million USD, this five-year contract will significantly enhance the training of fifth generation combat pilots.

Top Aces is the first commercial provider to deliver contracted air training to the USAF using the supersonic F-16 platform... the F-16 Advanced Aggressor Fighter (AAF) an upgraded version of the aircraft with unique open system architecture capabilities, including AESA radar, helmet-mounted cueing systems, tactical datalinks and high off-boresight missile capabilities.

https://www.prweb.com/releases/2022/09/ ... 885848.htm

Enhancements to the aircraft include an AESA radar, IRST, electronic-attack pod and HMCS helmet-mounted cueing system. Other modifications made via the AAMS’s (advanced aggressor mission system's) open system architecture include “high fidelity weapon simulation” and the addition of tactical datalink communications.

Truquichan escribió:ARES

La marina francesa contrató a este operador "red air" para realizar las funciones de entrenamiento y rebajar horas de desgaste a los Rafale M. Esta empresa compró el año pasado 12 M2000-5 excataries...

Bizcocho escribió:Podría decirse que ya existen fuerzas aéreas civiles más poderosas que la de algunos países.

Bizcocho escribió:Podría decirse que ya existen fuerzas aéreas civiles más poderosas que la de algunos países.

Saludos.

Atticus escribió:Yo tengo que decir que esto no lo comprendo. Lo de haber privatizado el bando rojo. Que esta claro que una fuerza de oposicion hay que tener y que ningun pais en solitario se la puede pagar (salvo ese). Pero que lo hemos hecho con el culo me parece obvio. En Europa acabamos de dar de baja ciento y la madre de aviones de la generacion anterior: F1 aqui, Mirage2000 alla, F16 acuya.... ¿Que trabajo nos habria costado ponernos de acuerdo entre varios paises y crear una OpFor multinciona equipada con esos aviones hasta que aguantaran. Porque muchos de esos aviones se han retirado con montañas de repuestos. De cien aviones retirados, una veintena se podian aprovechar mediante esos repuestos y canibalizando.

¡No, es que cuesta mucho!

Pues no debera costar tanto porque le estamos pagando un dinerito a unas cuantas empresas privadas. Dinerito que da para esos mantenimientos y para beneficios de esa misma empresa. O sea, que estamos perdiendo dinero con ese modelo. Que no hemos ahorrado nada.

dejece escribió:El sector privado es superior en cuanto a gestión.Y eso por mucho que fastidie es cierto.

Atticus escribió:Lo de haber privatizado el bando rojo.

ruso escribió:

dejece escribió:El sector privado es superior en cuanto a gestión.Y eso por mucho que fastidie es cierto.

Sí, y tiene que tener beneficios. De lo que le pagas a una empresa privada por suministrar un bien público, como es la defensa, una parte se va a sus beneficios, lo que no pasa si el mismo dinero lo gastas en tus FAS.

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A muchos británicos les entrará la nostalgia si te leen lo del bando rojo.