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Japan To Exhibit Maritime Patrol Seaplane To Indian Navy

July 25, 2014 @ 08:57 AM

Japan will display a maritime patrol seaplane before the Indian Navy during the ongoing Malabar maritime exercise. The maritime exercise involves Japanese, Indian and US navy off Nagasakis Port Sasebo scheduled from 27 to 30 Jul 14

First Modernized IL-38N Aircraft Delivered To Russian Navy

July 15, 2014 @ 10:33 AM

The first Ilyushin IL-38 maritime reconnaissance aircraft modified to Standard Series Il-38N (Novella) has been transferred to the Russian Navy on 15th July in Zhukovsky near Moscow,Ilyushin stated in a press statement. “Ilyushin” completed repair and modernization under a contract that includes modernization of five serial combat aircraft...

UK Trade & Investment Shows Interest In India’s Civil Aircraft Program

July 15, 2014 @ 08:50 AM

Industries in the UK would be interested to partner in the Regional Civil Aircraft program with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). Some of the key representatives from UK industries such as ADS Group, Aircraft Research Association, Cobham, Cranfield University, Meggitt, Rolls Royce, Stirling Dynamics, Ultra Controls, UTAS, and UKIBC were present in...

Irkut Showcases MC-21 Program At Farnborough

July 14, 2014 @ 12:58 PM

Irkut along with its Russian and other foreign partners will present MC-21 program at At the Farnborough International Airshow 2014. The display in a specialized pavilion reflects the transition of the program from the design to the production stage

Lockheed Martin Delivers Final Batch Of KC-130J Super Hercules

June 17, 2014 @ 02:38 PM

Lockheed Martin delivered the tenth and final US Marine Corps KC-130J Super Hercules tanker on 5 June, modified under the Harvest Hercules Airborne Weapons Kit (HAWK) program. Harvest HAWK is a long endurance, armed intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform

India to Get Improved Version of Airbus MRTT

June 12, 2014 @ 08:52 AM

Airbus Defence and Space (ADS) will sell India an improved variant of the A330-200 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft, the contract for which has been “fully negotiated and pre-signed”, an Airbus executive was quoted as saying by Janes Defence review. Named as the ‘The A330 MRTT Enhanced, the aircraft features improvements to the aerodynamics, structure, and mission computer

Antonov An-70 Begins Long-Distance Flight Testing

June 10, 2014 @ 02:50 PM

The Antonov Company announced today that the An-70 has begun performing long−distance flights having passed state tests. Among other flights there was one on the route: Kyiv – Odesa – Kharkiv – Lviv – Ivano−Frankivsk – Kyiv with duration of 8 hours and 8 minutes

India Has No Money To Pay For C-130J Hercules Aircraft: Reports

May 28, 2014 @ 01:53 PM

Indias financial woes have been so severe that the Ministry of Defense did not have enough money to pay the "first full instalment" of the $1.01 billion deal to buy six additional C-130J Super Hercules aircraft last December, the Times of India reports

Peru To Order Two C-27J Spartan Aircraft By Year-End, Eight Aircraft In...

May 8, 2014 @ 02:39 PM

Peru will place an order two Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan aircraft by the end 2014 and will add another eight in the future, according to local press reports. Peru awarded an initial order for two aircraft in November 2013, worth about $122 million, and will now order another two for a similar price, according to Defense-Aerospace

USAF Tests New Air-Sea Surveillance Capability

April 29, 2014 @ 02:41 PM

The US Air Force successfully completed the first Maritime Modes program risk reduction flight on April 14, as the service moves toward providing a new air-sea battle surveillance capability. The test flight consisted of an 11-and-a-half-hour sortie on a test Global Hawk Block 40 remotely piloted aircraft

Alenia Aermacchi, ATK Successfully Demos MC-27J Transport Aircraft

April 28, 2014 @ 02:38 PM

Alenia Aermacchi and its partner ATK announced on April 26 that a fully configured MC-27J multi-mission tactical transport aircraft completed its first flight. The demonstrator aircraft was modified with an L-3 Wescam MX-15Di Electro-Optical and Infrared Turret that was mounted under the nose of the aircraft and is optimized for ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) and SAR missions (Search and Rescue); and with Link-16 datalink software and hardware provisions that will prepare the aircraft for the ATK palletized mission system installation

Cubic Wins Moroccan P5 Air Combat Training System Contract

April 14, 2014 @ 10:38 AM

Cubic Corporation has won a $5 million contract to supply its P5 Combat Training System (P5CTS) to the Moroccan Air Force. Morocco will join the United States Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, along with a number of international air forces, in using the P5CTS to support high-fidelity, TOPGUN-style live and post-mission training

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