Boeing's P-8A Poseidon sub hunter has completed its first flight, marking the start of the aircraft's rigorous flight test campaign, the company confirms.
Military: April 2009 Archives
A Dutch Lockheed Martin F-16 lights up the sky with the afterburnerplugged in on take-off in this photograph by AirSpace user APG Photography.
See this image plus more in the APG Photography gallery on AirSpace
AirSpace user Ranger703 uploaded this image of a Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado GR4 departing Lossiemouth on a cold December morning.
Earlier this month Stephen Trimble's blog The DEW Line reported that the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recommended halting the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor production at 186 aircraft. Pictured here is the F-22 production line.
In the meantime, the US Air Force has cleared a five-year upgrade project to allow the Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor to communicate with other stealthy - and perhaps some non-stealthy - aircraft types. The project will cost roughly $900 million.
Last month the US Air Force suffered its first fatal accident involving an F-22, when a test aircraft crashed near Edwards AFB in California.
Picture credit - Lockheed Martin
The US Air Force has cleared a five-year upgrade project to allow the Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor to communicate with other stealthy - and perhaps some non-stealthy - aircraft types. The project will cost roughly $900 million. Continue reading...
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates last week proposed the most radical reshaping of the Pentagon's spending priorities since the end of the Cold War, including halting Lockheed Martin F-22 production at 186 aircraft.
Another major aerospace target was in the area of missile defence, especially the Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser (pictured). The first prototype will be kept as a research asset, but Gates will propose scrapping the second planned prototype. Continue reading...
Check recent posts from Stephen Trimble on his DEW Line blog on the subject including a liveblogging session during the budget press conference in which he interacted with 30 Flightglobal users.
The first Lockheed Martin C-130J tactical transport to be permanently assigned to a US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) unit was been delivered during a 7 April ceremony at Ramstein air base in Germany. Continue reading...
Raytheon is to restart production of a nearly 30-year-old air-to-ground missile system that is scheduled for replacement. Continue reading...
Pictured is an F-16 taken by Master Sergeant Andy Dunaway, USAF
Boeing and Times Aerospace Korea to are to jointly develop a wing assembly for the 910kg (2,000lb) Joint Direct Attack Munition Extended Range (JDAM ER) bomb.
The Austrian air force demonstrated the air policing capabilities of its new Eurofighter Typhoons on 27 March.
The service used the arrival of flag carrier Austrian's first winglet-equipped Boeing 767-300ER for the exercise.
On its return to Vienna from undergoing modification in the USA, OE-LAE was intercepted by a pair of Typhoons launched from Zeltweg air base.
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