Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd (KAI) has successfully conducted the maiden flight of a new medical transport version of its Surion helicopter. The 20-minute test flight took place at the KAI's headquarters in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, on Friday under the observation of about 40 officials from the defense procurement agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Army and the Armed Forces Medical Command, the company said Monday
Cubic Global Defense has demonstrated Live Flight of Encrypted P5 Combat Training System on tactical fighter aircraft. Cubic Miniature Encryptor (CME) is an encryption solution readily available to the P5CTS which will accomplish increased security for advanced air combat training as well as P5CTS pod and ground station encryption compatibility with the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)s P5 Internal Sub-system, the company announced today
Orbital ATK has won a Research and Technologies for Aerospace Propulsion Systems 2 (RTAPS2) contract from NASA to provide advanced space propulsion system technologies. NASA developed the RTAPS2 contract as part of aerospace research activities at the agencys Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio
Saab has started construction of the next generation submarine A26 for the Swedish Navy. The construction phase for the Swedish Navys A26 next-generation submarine has officially begun on 4 September 2015 at the Saab Kockums shipyard in Karlskrona
Bharat Electronics (BEL) has established an Integrated Test Bed Facility for missile and weapon Systems Integration at Bangalore. The ITBF is a first-of-its-kind in India for testing and integration of missile and weapon Systems
The flight test campaign in Italy of the Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) Neuron has been successfully concluded with the achievement of all established goals, thus allowing an important step forward for the program. The Neuron is the European full-scale technological demonstrator for UCAV developed by an industrial team led by Dassault Aviation with the collaboration of Finmeccanica-Alenia Aermacchi, Saab, Airbus Defence and Space, RUAG and HAI
US Navy has successfully tested Aegis Combat Systems air warfare (AW) and ballistic missile defense (BMD) capabilities. The tests were conducted along with Lockheed Martin
Alenia Aermacchi has completed dedicated flight-testing following the modification to add winglets to the C-27J battlefield airlifter configuration. A Finmeccanica statement claimed that this was part of a series of product developments underway on the only "real" military medium turboprop airlifter on the market
Orbital ATK has won a $25 million 5-year contract from the US Air Force to provide contractor logistics support for the Common Munitions Built-in-Test Reprogramming Equipment (CMBRE) system. Orbital ATK will provide technical and logistic support, depot-level repair, engineering services for obsolescence mitigation for Air Force and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers
Lockheed Martin announced Thursday that its F-16C Block 50 aircraft has recently completed 25,000 hours of simulated flight time, demonstrating the safety and durability that is beyond the aircrafts original design service life of 8,000 Equivalent Flight Hours (EFH). Further testing is being conducted to identify a definitive, safe flight hour limit for the aircraft