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Ivory Coast agrees to buy C295 transport aircraft from Airbus
Jan 22, 2019 (UPI)
Ivory Coast's Defense Ministry signed a firm order for one C295 for its air force, Airbus said in a news release Monday. The European company said the twin-turb...
Bell receives $439M contract from Navy for 25 AH-1Z Viper helicopters
Jan 22, 2019 (UPI)
The company, which is a subsidiary of Textron Inc., will build the aircraft and stores control units at its headquarters in Fort Worth and in Amarillo, Texas, t...
Never mind climate change, Davos prefers private jets
Jan 22, 2019 (AFP)
The convenience and comfort of flying privately rather than commercially appears to outweigh any concerns about the outsized carbon footprint it involves, judgi...
Bell Boeing nets $143.9M for Osprey logistics, engineering support
Jan 22, 2019 (UPI)
The 11-month base contract with four one-year option periods includes firm-fixed-price requirements, the agency announced Friday in Philadelphia. It expands on ...
Israel to open new international airport near Red Sea
Jan 21, 2019 (AFP)
The official ceremony was scheduled to begin at 11:30 am (0930 GMT) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in attendance. Initially Ramon Airport will handle on...
Passengers shiver through 13-hour ordeal on Canadian tarmac
Jan 20, 2019 (AFP)
United Flight 179 had taken off late Saturday from Newark, New Jersey en route to Hong Kong with some 250 passengers on board. When a passenger suffered a medic...
Singapore picks US F-35 fighter jet over Europe, China rivals
Jan 18, 2019 (AFP)
The affluent city-state, which has one of Asia's best equipped militaries, had earlier said it was evaluating Lockheed Martin's F-35 along with Europe's Eurofig...
Leonardo to support British Apache helicopters under $379M deal
Jan 18, 2019 (UPI)
Defense Minister Stuart Andrew made the announcement Thursday during a tour of the company's plant in Yeovil, where some of the work on the AH MK1 will take pla...
French military awards Thales contract to develop Rafale F4 sensors
Jan 18, 2019 (UPI)
The agreement allows the combat aircraft "to maintain its superiority against new threats," Thales said in a news release Friday. On Monday, France's government...
Sikorsky awarded $7M for King Stallion helicopter software, support
Jan 17, 2019 (UPI)
The Lockheed Martin Co. subsidiary's fixed-price incentive contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, provides for automated logistics environm...
U.S. Air Force awards Lockheed $131.6M for C-5 sustainment
Jan 14, 2019 (UPI)
The work, which is expected to be completed by Jan. 25, will be performed at its headquarters in Marietta, Ga., as well as in Fort Worth, Texas and Palmdale, Ca...
France orders 28 upgraded Rafale warplanes for $2.3 billion
Jan 14, 2019 (UPI)
The 28 aircraft, which will include some F4 functionalities, will be delivered to the French air force in 2023, Defense News reported. And Defense Minister Flor...
South Korea to receive first two F-35A stealth jets in March
Jan 14, 2019 (UPI)
The aircraft will arrive in the end of March and be deployed by May, The Korean Times and the South China Morning Post reported Sunday. The F-35A, which feature...
Britain declares it's F-35B fighters are ready for combat
Jan 11, 2019 (UPI)
"The incredible F-35 jets are ready for operations, a transformed Typhoon [a fighter plane about to go out of service] has the power to dominate the skies into ...
Air Force accepts first KC-46A Pegasus tanker
Jan 10, 2019 (UPI)
The military branch's acceptance signals the beginning of the delivery process for Boeing, which is under contract to provide 52 of an anticipated 179 KC-46A ta...
US objections stop Croatia buying Israeli fighter jets: minister
Jan 10, 2019 (AFP)
Croatia had in March agreed to buy 12 used F-16s from Israel to replace its Russian-made MiG-21s. But Washington objected to the sale of the US-made jets becaus...
Air Force conducts first F-35 test flight led by female pilot
Jan 08, 2019 (UPI)
Maj. Rachael Winiecki, a developmental test pilot with the 461st Flight Test Squadron, who has served past deployments in Southwest Asia, Eastern Europe, and th...
L-3 tapped for comms system on MH-60R Seahawk helicopters
Jan 08, 2019 (UPI)
The company will be expected to manufacture, test, deliver, manage and support the common data link, which allows the MH-60R Seahawk helicopter to communicate w...
Israeli F-15 lands safely after losing canopy at 30,000 feet
Jan 07, 2019 (AFP)
In a dramatic cockpit voice recording of the January 2 incident airmen can be heard shouting to one another over the roaring wind and engine noise, in what a mi...
Air Force completes first mission with new command-and-control system
Jan 06, 2019 (UPI)
Airmen of the 752nd Operations Support Squadron used the ground-based weapons system to connect with needed databases across the Air Force to monitor the aerial...
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