All Defence articles – Page 82
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NewsCessna SkyCourier pitched at military special missions market with RIAT debut
Textron Aviation is advancing the development of several modifications to the Cessna SkyCourier twin-turboprop for special mission applications which will be installed on a demonstrator aircraft next year.
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NewsNine manufacturers to build autonomous ship-based VTOL aircraft for DARPA
Aerospace manufacturers including Northrop Grumman, AeroVironment, AVX Aircraft, Griffon Aerospace, Karem Aircraft, Leidos, Method Aeronautics, Piasecki Aircraft, and Sikorsky will design demonstrator versions of an autonomous ship-based reconnaissance aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing for the Pentagon’s secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency technology incubator.
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NewsBoeing secures long-lead funding for US Chinook Block II production
A $22.5 million contract from the US Army will fund preparations at Boeing to deliver Block II CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift helicopters under production Lot 4, a platform the service has not yet committed to fully acquiring.
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NewsNew Delhi clears acquisition of 26 Rafale M fighters
The naval variant of the Dassault Rafale fighter has secured its first export win, with New Delhi clearing the acquisition of 26 examples for the country’s navy.
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NewsBrazilian pilots complete Gripen flight training in Sweden
As Saab continues production of Brazil’s 36 Gripen E/F fighters, Brasilia’s pilots are undergoing flight training in Sweden and at home to convert from Northrop F-5M and AMX International jets.
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NewsPratt & Whitney wins initial F-35 engine upgrade contract
The engine maker secured $66 million in funding to support early stage design engineering and long-lead material purchases for the Engine Core Upgrade programme, which will provide enhancements to the USA’s Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter fleet and billions of dollars in revenue to Pratt & Whitney over the coming years.
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NewsLatest Cobham sale will take divestment proceeds past $7bn mark
A proposed sale of Cobham’s aerospace communications business will take to over $7 billion the total raised through the steady dismantling of the group by its US private equity owners.
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NewsUkrainian pilots to begin F-16 flight training in August
Ukrainian aviators will begin training on the Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter in Denmark and later Romania, under an agreement announced at a NATO summit in Lithuania that will see Dutch and Danish crews leading instruction starting in August.
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NewsUSA affirms support for Turkey F-16 sale, following deal for Sweden NATO membership
A flurry of diplomatic activity at the NATO summit in Lithuania saw Turkey drop its opposition to Sweden joining the alliance, while the USA agreed to a sale of Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets that Ankara has been seeking.
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NewsAustralian E-7A to support Ukraine supply effort
Canberra will send a single Boeing E-7A Wedgetail early warning & control (AEW&C) aircraft for a six-month deployment in Germany.
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NewsUSAF MQ-9 crash in Europe attributed to pilot error
The results of an initial accident investigation indicate that “channelised attention” led the pilot of a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 UAV to respond incorrectly to a warning indication, causing an unrecoverable crash of the remotely piloted aircraft.
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NewsInitial work begins on Merlin life-extension studies for Royal Navy
Leonardo Helicopters and Lockheed Martin UK have each been awarded contracts worth £1.8 million ($2.29 million) to evaluate how to keep the Royal Navy’s AW101 Merlin fleet operational until 2040.
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NewsRheinmetall picks Weeze for new F-35 fuselage plant
Germany’s Rheinmetall is to build a new factory to produce fuselages for the Lockheed Martin F-35 at a site in Weeze in the far west of the country.
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NewsUSAF F-35As operate marathon sortie from Alaska to Japan
Lockheed Martin F-35As operated by the US Air Force (USAF) have performed a long-range sortie from North America to Japan simulating a combat mission.
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NewsElbit wins Asia-Pacific contract for two ATR patrol aircraft
Elbit Systems has secured a $114 million contract with an unnamed Asia-Pacific nation to supply two long-range patrol aircraft.
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NewsUK eyes Red 6’s augmented-reality technology for BAE Hawk trainers
The UK government’s internal venture capital fund is investing in American technology firm Red 6, which is developing augmented-reality solutions to support fighter pilot training, with an eye toward integrating the capability into the Royal Air Force’s BAE Systems Hawk jets.
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NewsUK MoD orders fourth Apache AH-64E Longbow crew trainer for Army Air Corps
Boeing is to supply a fourth AH-64E Apache Longbow crew trainer to the Army Air Corps (AAC) under a new contract with the UK Ministry of Defence.
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NewsRussian fighters intercept American UAV over Syria, in latest Middle East incident
The US Air Force’s Middle East headquarters says Russian fighter aircraft conducted an unsafe intercept of an American MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle over Syria, marking the latest incident in the conflicted airspace where both countries are operating.
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NewsGerman lawmakers approve $8.5 billion CH-47 buy
The $8.5 billion deal to purchase 60 heavy-lift Chinook helicopters has received critical approval from the parliament in Berlin, two months after regulators in Washington signed off on the sale.
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NewsNorway to partially upgrade Bell 412 fleet as it postpones special forces acquisition
Norway is to push ahead with an upgrade of its elderly Bell 412 helicopters and postpone a recapitalisation of its rotorcraft fleet around a single aircraft family, a move that goes against the advice of the head of its armed forces.