Vertex Aerospace won a contract valued $10 million to support KC-130J aircraft with air-to-air refueling capability. The country ordered three KC-130Js in 2010
Oshkosh demonstrated the ROGUE Fires unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) at the Sink at Sea Live Fire Training Exercises (SINKEX) in Hawaii. The UGV leverages the Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV) extreme off-road mobility and payload capacity and Oshkoshs advanced autonomous vehicle technologies to support Ground-Based Anti-Ship Missile (GBASM) operations
Americas GE Aviation won a contract valued INR 5,375 Crore (approximately $720 million) from Indian firm Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the delivery of engines to power Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mk-1A. Inked on August 17, the deal calls for the supply of 99 F404-GE-IN20 engines and support services
The first Boeing KC-46A tanker built for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) recently refueled another KC-46A aircraft in the skies over Washington state. The Japan-bound tanker also successfully received fuel in return
The three decades-old Russian Orel nuclear-powered submarine that lost propulsion in the Danish waters recently was towed to safety with assistance from other vessels. The incident occurred on July 30 in the busy waters east of Denmarks second-largest city Århus
A Boeing-led team has demonstrated manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) capabilities in a virtual environment using the Navys MQ-25TM Stingray unmanned aerial refueler, the E-2D Hawkeye airborne command-and-control aircraft and the F/A-18 Super Hornet. The demonstration, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, used Northrop Grummans portable E-2D simulator in conjunction with Boeings F/A-18 and MQ-25 simulations to establish a data link network that was used to supervise MQ-25 flight operations
Georgia could soon place an order worth $30 million with Raytheon/Lockheed Martin Javelin Joint Venture for Javelin Missiles. On Tuesday, the U
The state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the maker of the Y-20 hinted at switching to domestically developed engines with a high bypass ratio Chinese state media reported that last week, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) released a cartoon on its official Weibo account showing a Y-20 aircraft with four big wine barrels covering its engines. "In the future, the Y-20 will be produced in large numbers using Chinese-developed engines to serve as a platform that can be developed into different variants, like an aerial tanker or an early warning aircraft," Wei Dongxu, a Beijing-based military expert, told the...
Airbus-built A400M and A330 MRTT aircraft provided airlift and aerial refueling support in a recent demonstration of rapid transfer of French military forces over long distances. Two A400M airlifters and two A330 Multi Role Tanker Transports from the French Air and Space Forces inventory were involved in the June-July mission
The incident with the British destroyer ‘Defender in the Black Sea was planned by the "senior comrades" of Great Britain said the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov. On June 23, a Russian naval ship fired warning shots and dropped bombs in the course of the Defender, which violated the Russian border in the Black Sea near Cape Fiolent (Crimea), according to the Kremlin