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Pakistan's $125M request for F-16 support to go to U.S. Congress

Jul 29, 2019 (UPI)

The approval, announced on Friday, includes notifying Congress of the potential sale ahead of moving forward with it. The deal calls for a Technical Service Tea...

US approves sales to support Pakistan's F-16s, India's C-17s

Jul 26, 2019 (AFP)

Approval to support US-built aircraft for the two south Asian rivals were approved by the US State Department, and announced simultaneously by the US Defense Se...

Anti-collision software appears on F-35s, seven years ahead of schedule

Jul 24, 2019 (UPI)

Integration of the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System, or Auto-GCAS, has begun on U.S. Air Force F-35As in the fleet. The system employs a digital terr...

Space-enabled app for pilots takes to the skies

Jul 24, 2019 (ESA)

Preparing a flight plan can be a long and arduous task for pilots, who have to process large quantities of information on weather patterns, ground topology, the...

4 defense giants to vie for Canadian fighter jet contract

Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)

The contract is reportedly valued at a minimum Can$15 billion (US$11.4 billion). After 18 months of consultation with the industry, "the formal request for prop...

Bulgarian president vetoes costly deal to buy US F-16s

Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)

"Due to the shortened legislative procedure, a series of important issues remained unclear such as costs, guarantees, delivery times, forfeits, indemnities," Ra...

eFlyer 2 Prototype Begins New Flight Test Program with Siemens Production Motor

Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)

Following successful flight tests earlier this spring, Bye Aerospace completed the pre-production lower-power prototype motor test program and installed the ful...

Sweden, United Kingdom to partner on future combat aircraft development

Jul 19, 2019 (UPI)

U.K. Defense Secretary Penny Mordaunt and Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist signed a memorandum of understanding calling for "work on a joint combat air ...

Bulgaria parliament ratifies costly deal to buy eight F-16s

Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)

Defence Minister Krasimir Karakachanov justified the big sum -- significantly higher than what other countries have paid for F-16s -- as the NATO member's first...

Lockheed Martin awarded $112.4M for work on F-35

Jul 19, 2019 (UPI)

The United States removed Turkey from its F-35 fighter jet program on Wednesday after it took delivery of Russian missile defense system parts last week. In all...

Air Force pilot tests modified Black Hawk helicopter for first time

Jul 18, 2019 (UPI)

Maj. Andrew Fama, a test pilot with the 413th Flight Test Squadron based in Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., flew the aircraft last Thursday at Sikorsky Aircraft's D...

Britain's first P-8A Poseidon takes flight near Boeing plant

Jul 16, 2019 (UPI)

Key testing was conducted during during the 90-minute flight, which began at 10 a.m. PDT Friday, Boeing said in a news release Monday. British Ministry of Defen...

Boeing awarded $96.9M for Apache helicopter, trainer suppport for UAE

Jul 15, 2019 (UPI)

Apache helicopters and Longbow crew trainers. The deal, funded through foreign military sales, will include aircraft integrated logistics support and product as...

French inventor soars above Champs-Elysees on flyboard at Paris parade: AFP

Jul 14, 2019 (AFP)

Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata, grasping a rifle in a sign of the possible military uses of his device, took to the air in a futuristic showpiece of t...

$600M helicopter sale to Greece approved by State Department

Jul 12, 2019 (UPI)

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, a branch of the Defense Department engaged in efforts to train, educate, advise, and equip foreign partners, made the a...

Boeing to provide logistics for Britain's P-8A Poseidon in $23M deal

Jul 12, 2019 (UPI)

The cost-plus-fixed-fee order is against a previously issued basic ordering agreement, and involves initial acceptance and breakdown of four P-8A aircraft and t...

USAF's Mountain Home AFB stays busy with F-35A fighter plane rotations

Jul 12, 2019 (UPI)

Seventeen of the planes arrived from Hill AFB, Utah, as the Utah base undergoes runway repairs, and seven more planes in the squadron are expected soon as the a...

Air Canada flight makes emergency landing in Hawaii

Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)

Flight AC33 from Vancouver to Sydney hit trouble around two hours beyond Hawaii and diverted back to the US island chain's capital Honolulu, the company said in...

Lockheed to keep Sikorsky helicopter plant open in Pennsylvania

Jul 11, 2019 (UPI)

Lockheed CEO Marillyn Hewson confirmed a Twitter post by President Donald Trump about the company's subsidiary Sikorsky keeping a plant open in Coatesville, 39 ...

Bulgaria to acquire eight F-16 fighter planes in $1.25B deal

Jul 10, 2019 (UPI)

The contract with Lockheed Martin, revealed on Wednesday, calls for delivery of eight new F-16 Block 70 aircraft. The price tag will raise the country's defense...