Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland has signed a £580 million contract to provide an availability based support package for the UK MoD's fleet of AW101 Merlin helicopters from 1st April 2015 to 31st March 2020. UK Defence Minister Philip Dunne said, “Our fleet of Merlin helicopters has benefitted from considerable investment by the MOD through major upgrades in recent years
The Indian Navys Dornier Surveillance aircraft has crashed into sea on Tuesday night during a routine training sortie about 20 nautical miles South West of Goa. The Naval Air Station at Goa lost radar contact with the aircraft at 10:08 PM
General Dynamics Land Systems has won a $22.7 million contract from the US Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command for updates and revisions to all logistic requirements and data in support of the Buffalo A2 M1272 vehicle
Raytheons Integrated Defense Systems recently has won a $212.6 million contract to provide upgrades to the Patriot missile system purchased by US allies
Rockwell Collins announced today that it has partnered with DRS Training & Control Systems to provide next-generation secure Air Combat Training capability for both domestic and international air forces. The delivered capability will leverage newly developed security and instrumentation technologies from the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS) with air combat training, weapon simulation, and aircraft integration experience
Dassault Aviation will handover the two upgraded Mirage 2000 aircraft to India on March 25 in Istres Dassault Aviation Flight Test Center, PTI reported Today. India had in 2011 signed an upgrade programme worth over US$1
Raytheon has won two modification contracts of total $5 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support the Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT) program, the company announced in its press release on Tuesday. ACT is focused on developing technology that enables rapidly upgradable and widely deployable radar array architectures
Bell announced today that it will display UH-1Y maritime helicopter and 429 WLG light twin-engine helicopter during the upcoming LIMA 2015. The company said that, it will have subject matter experts to discuss Bells latest military and commercial rotorcraft and customer support offerings at their stand (#B710) and at the aircraft on static display
General Dynamics has won $13 million contract to upgrade the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) waveform used in the US Army's AN/PRC-155 two-channel MUOS-Manpack radios. The waveform is the digital 'dial-tone' needed to connect with the U
Northrop Grumman has won a $267 million contract by the U.S