The first Airbus-built Inmarsat-6, I-6 F1, satellite has been shipped to Tanegashima in Japan, ready to be launched on an H-IIA launch vehicle built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in December. Inmarsat-6 F1 is based on Airbus ultra-reliable Eurostar E3000 spacecraft and will be the 54th Eurostar E3000 launched
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The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theatre Command Air Force recently replaced some of its old J-7s with advanced J-10Cs equipped with domestic WS-10 Taihang engines to counter Taiwans new F-16V fighters. Nine J-7E fighters recently left an airbase in the east of South Chinas Guangdong Province as they retired from active combat service, state-owned CCTV reported Sunday
Chinas Aerodynamics Research Institute under the state-owned Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) has completed development of a new one-meter-class hypersonic aerodynamic wind tunnel. The FL-64 tunnel recently passed air flow distribution calibration tests under major Mach numbers
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The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) accepted the first of five Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft that will be operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF). Norway's first P-8A aircraft, named Vingtor, was delivered to the NDMA during a ceremony at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington
Russian aircraft conducted more than 100 takeoffs and landings on the Navys Ivan Gren-class Landing Ship during recent exercises. The exercises were held by the Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea, Russian MoD-owned
A British F-35B fighter crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, making it the third such incident involving the aircraft. Pilot of the jet ejected safely