Alenia Aermacchi has delivered the first of 10 C-27J Spartan tactical medium-loft transport aircraft to Royal Australian Air Force. "The C-27J Spartan will complement the C-130J Hercules and C-17A Globemaster," Air Marshal Geoff Brown, Chief of the Air Force was quoted as saying by UPI on Tuesday
Sukhoi has delivered the first batch of Su-34 bombers to Russian air force for this year. The jets took off from the airfield of Novosibirsk Aviation Plant and headed to their home base, Sukhoi said in a press statement Today
FLIR Systems has introduced today the next generation FLIR ONE(tm) thermal imager for Android and IOS mobile phones The company announced that its next-generation thermal imager is available for iOS devices from today onwards on FLIR.com/FLIRONE and the Android-compatible version is available in July
Northrop Grumman announced today that it has won a $31.7 million contract to deliver an advanced anti-missile system to the US Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command
Russia has started working on a helicopter carrier similar to the stalled French Mistral and is expected to join the forces in 2018, Tass reported last week. Russia recently displayed the layout of the ship similar to the French Mistral amphibious assault ship at the Army 2015 forum
Airbus Helicopters announced today that it has delivered the first retrofitted H135s choppers to the Bavarian Police in Germany. The H135s, currently showcased at the ongoing Paris Airshow is upgraded to retrofit package that significantly improves the operating performance and the handling qualities retaining the payload lift capabilities of this lightweight twin-engine rotorcraft
The operational group of Russian Forces, stationed in Tajikistan, have practiced with the Russian homemade drones Forpost and Orlan-1o at night in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. The use of both the drones was conducted as part of joint military exercises carried out by Russia and Tajikistan, Russias Central Military District Command was quoted as saying by Sputnik International reported Today
Lockheed Martin has won a $78 million contract from the UK Ministry of Defence to design and build a Chinook training facility in Hampshire that is the home of the Chinook fleet, Orlando Business Journal reported Thursday. The 12-year contract to deliver synthetic training for the Chinook crews involves designing, building and managing the facility and introducing the training system
The US State Department has approved a $1.7 billion possible sale of four Northrop Grummans E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft to Japan, Reuters reported Monday
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified technical flaws in the ground-launched anti-missile interceptors. The flaws could disrupt sensitive on-board systems that are supposed to steer the interceptors into enemy missiles in space, GAO said on Saturday