Military Nano-Satellites
At an age where warfare technologies are being developed everyday, the military must set its eyes on the future constantly. Leaders of the world are trying ot focus on the most recent technologies, which...
Category: Air Systems
Japan: 1st V-22 Ospreys Contract
Bell Boeing, a strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, and Boeing, was awarded a U.S. Navy contract today for five Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft to be delivered to Japan, marking...
Selex ES to Provide Search and Rescue Radar for Australia
Selex ES has been awarded a multi-million Euro contract from Cobham Aviation Services in Australia to supply a number of Seaspray 5000E Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) surveillance radars. The radars will equip Cobham’s...
UTC Aerospace Systems Introduces Active Side-Sticks to Large Commercial Aviation
UTC Aerospace Systems is introducing the world’s first active side-stick controller for large commercial aircraft. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp. UTC Aerospace Systems’ Actuation & Propeller business unit is...
Rafale and FREMM will equip Egypt Forces
Dassault, DCNS and MBDA signed contracts in Cairo respectively for 24 Rafales, a multimission frigate and missiles for Egypt, in a deal worth €5.2 billion (US $5.9 billion). The sale to Egypt is the...
Japan, Australia to Provide F-35 Maintenance Sites in Pacific Region
Japan and Australia will be sharing maintenance and upgrade duties for the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter based or operating in the Pacific region, the program executive officer for the aircraft announced today....
HAV Delays Hybrid Airship Flight; Selex To Study Sensors
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has planned by end 2015 the return to flight of its revolutionary Airlander 10. The huge buoyant-lift machine, which flew at the Long Endurance Multi-Purpose Vehicle (LEMV), will not be...
F-35 MRO&U European Assignments (Italy, UK, Turkey, Norway, the Netherlands)
The F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter program office announced today the European locations for heavy engine and heavy air frame maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade facilities. The Department of Defense has assigned F-35...
Siberian airliner passengers help push jet to runway
Dozens of passengers have found fame on a snowy Russian airfield, pushing the wings of a Tupolev-134 airliner to set it rolling – video here KRASNOYARSK, November 25. /TASS/. Dozens of airline passengers in the...
in Europe only ITAF, RAF (and GAF) have the ability to transport highly infectious patients
An Italian doctor, who developed a fever and was positive at the Ebola virus after working at a clinic located few miles west of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, was repatriated with a special bio-containment...
B-52 Re-engine Resurfaces As USAF Reviews Studies
The U.S. Air Force is reviewing industry studies of fitting its 50-year-old Boeing B-52 bombers with new commercial-derivative engines, according to Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson, commander of the service’s Global Strike Command. So far,...
South Korea will buy 40 F-35
South Korea picked Lockheed Martin’s F-35A stealth fighter as its main combat aircraft to better respond to possible nuclear and missile attacks from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The country is the...
NASA and Industry Team Tests Aircraft Noise-Reducing Technologies
Listen to NASA “auralizations” of different aircraft types powered by turbofan, open-rotor, prop and electric engines&mdash tap here (from AviationWeek) — NASA and aerospace industry partners are flight testing new technologies to see...
NG Hypersonic XS-1 are to fly 10 times in 10 days and exceed Mach 10
Northrop Grumman has unveiled its vertical-launch, horizontal-landing reusable booster design for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) XS-1 experimental spaceplane program. Northrop, teamed with subsidiary Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, is working under a 13-month,...
New AWACS Data Fusion Processing and EW Improvements
The article summarized here appeared on http://spendergast.blogspot.be/ and includes a global survey of the E-3 Sentry program. AWACS upgrade achieves initial operational capability – U.S. Air Force The commander of Air Combat Command, Gen. Mike Hostage, declared...
USAF SMC: 52 M$ to Raytheon for software coding and security on the military GPS
Raytheon Co., El Segundo, California, has been awarded a $22,000,000 modification (P00015) to FA8807-12-C-0012 for software coding and security on the military global positioning system user equipment contract. The total cumulative face value of...
NATO: 250 M$ to Boeing to Modernize NATO AWACS Fleet
Boeing has received a contract from NATO worth approximately $250 million to install digital flight decks and avionics on 13 of the alliance’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, which are based on...
ITA MOD PRMN (National Military Research Plan) project successfully completed
AgustaWestland completed a demonstration of its Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial System / Optionally Piloted Helicopter (RUAS/OPH) to the Italian Ministry of Defence. The trials were conducted to evaluate modern remote controlled rotorcraft technology and its...
A light ISR platform at low operating costs
Beechcraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. company, has launched a new demonstrator dedicated to showcasing the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities of its Baron G58 piston-engine aircraft. video...
1st Global Hawk flight over Europe
The aircraft flew from an air base in the Mediterranean and across several European countries, including the UK, as part of a NATO trial known as Unified Vision 2014. The flights aim to assist...