Thales announced today at Paris Airshow 2015 that it has won a contract from the Jordanian Armed Forces to provide further I-Master SAR/GMTI radars. The selection follows the successful delivery and installation of the radar onto their Royal Jordian Air Force AC-235 aircraft in 2014
Bechtel-led National Aerospace Solutions (NAS) has won $1.5 billion contract from the US Air Force to run key operations for the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee
Rockwell Collins announced Monday that it will showcase Combined Vision System, a flight Deck Technology, at Paris Air Show 2015. Rockwell Collins Combined Vision System fuses enhanced vision and synthetic vision on a head-up display
The US militarys F/A-18 Hornet legacy fighters are flying more hours and will require more maintenance than expected due to delays in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program, Rear Adm. Michael Manazir was quoted as saying by defense journal, DoDBuzz last week
Northrop Grumman Corporation and its industry partners with NATO leaders unveiled the first NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) aircraft, wide area surveillance Global Hawk. The unmanned aircraft is part of a broader system of systems solution that will advance the Alliance's evolving ISR needs during a full range of NATO's missions such as protection of ground troops and civilian populations, border control and maritime safety, the fight against terrorism, crisis management and humanitarian assistance in natural disasters
The US has decided to deploy advanced military hardware, including its newest stealth missile destroyer, to the Asia-Pacific region to counter China's rise, Sputnik website reported Wednesday. The website quoted US Defense Secretary Ash Carter as saying "we plan to bring the best platforms and people forward to the Asia-Pacific" as part of America's rebalancing strategy
The Indian Air Force launched an anti-ship Harpoon missile for the first time in the Arabian Sea last week, Hindustan Times reported today. The Harpoon, with a range of 124km, is capable of land-strike missions too
The UK's Royal Navy and Royal Air Force personnel are at sea, onboard USS WASP for the test of F-35B Lightning II fast jets, UK ministry of Defense announced Wednesday. Lightning II is a Short Take Off Vertical Landing aircraft
CAE announced today at CANSEC, Canada's premiere defence trade show, that a comprehensive suite of CH-147F Chinook simulators and training devices have completed on-site acceptance testing and are ready-for-use. The CH-147F training devices for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) include a CH-147F WST - a full-motion, full-mission simulator featuring a six-degree-of-freedom (DOF) motion system, 3-DOF vibration platform, 200-x- 60 degree field-of-view visual display system, and CAE Medallion-6000 image generator with Common Database (CDB)architecture
Indias Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) conducted noise measurement flight trials of Advance Light Helicopter (ALH)-Dhruv as part of the process to acquire European Space Agency (ESA) certification at Mysuru airport Thursday. The tests involved acoustic programming and compensation for atmospheric variables against measured noise levels and in compliance with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)