These war machines run on made-in-Woodstock components

Ametek Rotron has conveniently listed some of the military machines that rely on cooling fans that are made in the village of peace, love and music:

Military aircraft:

KEY PROGRAMS

• A-1M
• A-29 EMB 314 Super Tucano
• C130 Hercules many variants
• E3 Sentry AWACS
• E6 Mercury
• E7 Wedgetail
• F15 Eagle
• F16 Fighting Falcon
• F18 Hornet/Super Hornet
• F22 Raptor
• F35 Lightning
• KC46 Pegasus Tanker
• P-3C Orion
• P-8 Poseidon
• T-7 Boeing-Saab Red Hawk
• UAV General Atomics
• V22 Osprey

MAJOR CUSTOMERS

• AMX
• Bell
• Boeing
• Boeing-SAAB
• Embraer
• General Atomics
• General Dynamics
• Lockheed Martin
• McDonnell Douglas

Helicopters:

KEY PROGRAMS

• Bell 407/427
• Bell 525
• JATAS
• MH-60K
• S-76D
• S92
• UH60J

MAJOR CUSTOMERS

• Bell Helicopter
• Lockheed Martin
• Mitsubishi
• Rockwell Collins
• Sikorsky
• TAI [Turkish Aircraft Industries]

Military ground vehicles:

KEY PROGRAMS

• 3DELRR mobile ground radar
• Bradley Fighting Vehicle
• HMMWV
• LAV III
• Leopard II MBT
• M1 Grizzly Breacher
• Marder 1A3 IFV
• Mobile Analytical Lab System
• Stryker ACV
• TPQ-47 mobile ground radar
• TPQ-53 mobile counter fire radar
• VBL LAV

MAJOR CUSTOMERS

• Aero Sekur
• AM General
• BAE
• Behr
• General Dynamics
• Lockheed Martin
• Panhard
• Raytheon
• Rheinmetall
• United Defense

Military vessels:

KEY PROGRAMS

• Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer
• Columbia-Class Submarine
• Constellation-Class Frigates
• Ohio-Class Submarine
• San Antonio-Class Transport Dock
• Ticonderoga-Class Cruiser
• Vanguard-Class Submarine
• Virginia-Class Submarine

MAJOR CUSTOMERS

• General Dynamics Electric Boat
• Leonardo DRS
• Lockheed Martin
• Northrop Grumman
• Raytheon
• Ultra Electronics 

 

Woodstock's largest employer continues to supply critical weapons system components

As usual, only a few of Ametek Rotron's Pentagon weapons contracts find their way to the public domain, and virtually none of their private business. It's become even harder to find out info since they farmed out their contracting to military bottom-feeder Kellstrom Defense, which then morphed as a result of a merger into AllClear Aerospace & Defense. But here, from DIBBS, are a few recent government contracts that suggest how business continues as usual:

• Nov. 6, 2024: The Defense Logistics Agency orders 5 annular ball bearings from Rotron at $220 each -- to be shipped to the South Korean Air Force in Daegu, South Korea. (We don't know if the US taxpayer will be reimbursed by South Korea for these military aircraft parts.)
• Feb. 5, 2025:  The DLA orders 23 items called "PROPIMAX,GUARD,AIRC" at $435 each. They're deemed a "CRITICAL APPLICATION ITEM". One website suggests this item is for the Navy's MH-60R helicopters, made by Sikorsky.
  
• Feb. 19, 2025: The DLA's aviation division orders one "FAN,TUBEAXIAL" at $7,896, to be sent directly to USS Lyndon B. Johnson (pictured), one of the Navy's three huge Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers. According to a 2018 General Accounting Office report, these ships cost around $8 billion each.
• May 5, 2025: The Pentagon orders 30 more annular ball bearings for the South Korean Air Force -- this time they're $270 each. A new middleman appears in this order: it's to go via OS 2 Corporation, another of the many firms that get fat from the huge amounts of money that swirl around military contracting.
• May 16, 2025: The Pentagon demands that Rotron send replacements for two motor stators which Rotron had sent under an earlier contract, as they were "found to be non-conforming with the terms of the contract".
• May 29, 2025: The DLA's aviation division orders 6 centrifugal fans at the bargain price of $14,930 each. Again OS 2 Corp also gets a piece of the action.

 

Apaches in Coxsackie

An update to our previous post about local war profiteers Ducommun in Coxsackie, NY: "Later this month we expect to start full production of rotor blades for the Apache helicopter at our Coxsackie, New York facility which will complete the transition of that program from our Monrovia, California facility." So said Ducommun's Chief Financial Officer at a corporate earnings call earlier this month, adding that "we are going to see the Apache production here ramp-up". Apaches are prominent bringers of terror in Israel's ongoing genocidal siege of Gaza. The Reuters image here shows an Israeli Apache firing toward Gaza on May 14, 2024.