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India, Russia close in on chopper deal: report
Feb 14, 2017 (AFP)
Russia is close to finalising a deal to build helicopters in India, an executive said Tuesday, a move that would boost Narendra Modi's ambitions to manufacture ...
Israeli companies cash in on F-35 contract work
Feb 13, 2017 (UPI)
Israeli companies have earned about $1.03 billion since 2010 from projects related to Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter program, Israel's Ministry of Defense repor...
Airbus contracts CAE for C295W training simulation
Feb 13, 2017 (UPI)
Airbus Defense and Space awarded CAE an 11-year contract to support the Canadian government's Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue program. Under the contract, valued a...
UH-60V Black Hawk completes first flight
Feb 13, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Army and industry partner Northrop Grumman completed the first flight of the UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter. The UH-60V features upgrades from the Army's...
Saab offers high-tech jet production hub to India
Feb 11, 2017 (AFP)
Swedish defence giant Saab has offered to build a state-of-the-art fighter jet factory in India should it seal a lucrative deal to supply hundreds of military j...
How to decrease the mass of aircrafts
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
Members of the Department of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University have created unique polymer matrices for polymer composites based on novel phthaloni...
U.S. Navy purchases 25 more AH-1Z helicopters
Feb 09, 2017 (UPI)
Bell Helicopter received a $423 million contract modification to manufacture and deliver 25 Lot 14 AH-1Z Viper helicopters to the U.S. Marine Corps. The contrac...
Nigeria acquiring light attack aircraft from Brazil
Feb 09, 2017 (UPI)
The Nigerian Air Force says the Brazilian government has given Embraer Defense and Security permission to sell Nigeria pre-owned attack aircraft. The three airc...
Leonardo to offer T-100 training system for T-X program
Feb 08, 2017 (UPI)
Leonardo DRS, a subsidiary of Leonardo-Finmeccanica, will offer its T-100 integrated training system for the U.S. Air Force's T-X trainer competition. The Itali...
Greece military plans modernization of its F-16 fleet
Feb 08, 2017 (UPI)
Greece plans to modernize its fleet of F-16 fighters and then acquire F-35 aircraft from the Unite States at a later date, according to a news report. The publi...
Simmonds Precision Products to overhaul UH-60 computers
Feb 08, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Army awarded Simmonds Precision Products a $10.3 million fixed-price contract to overhaul mission computers for the branch's UH-60 Black Hawk helicopte...
Elbit Systems upgrading Mi-17 helos
Feb 08, 2017 (UPI)
Elbit Systems of Israel has been contracted to upgrade and maintain Mi-17 helicopters of an unidentified country in the Asia-Pacific region. The contract is wor...
South Korea, Indonesia open KF-X program office
Feb 08, 2017 (UPI)
South Korea and Indonesia opened a joint program management office on Wednesday for development of the KF-X fighter aircraft. Yonhap News Agency reports the off...
Taiwan to build new jet trainer fleet by 2026 in defence push
Feb 07, 2017 (AFP)
Taiwan officials said Tuesday a new generation of locally built jet trainers would be completed by 2026, part of a push to strengthen the defence industry again...
U.S. Air Force tests first C-130 with Block 8.1 upgrades
Feb 07, 2017 (UPI)
U.S. Air Force pilots recently completed a training flight with the first C-130J Super Hercules equipped with Block 8.1 upgrades. With the upgrades, the pilots ...
Stavatti enters T-X competition with Javelin
Feb 07, 2017 (UPI)
Aerospace manufacturer Stavatti entered a modified version of its Javelin plane into the U.S. Air Force's T-X trainer competition. The Javelin is a twin-engine ...
Saudi Arabia to get more radars for F-15 fleet
Feb 07, 2017 (UPI)
Boeing received an $18 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide AN/APG-63(V) radars for Saudi Arabia's F-15SA aircraft. The contract covers three of ...
Made-in-China large passenger plane targets 2017 debut
Feb 06, 2017 (AFP)
China's first homegrown big passenger plane will make its maiden voyage in the first half of this year, state media said Monday, as the country seeks to challen...
America's 6th Generation Fighter Jets of the Future
Feb 06, 2017 (SPX)
America's 6th generation fighter jets will probably be the real game changer over its predecessor, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), that in spite of repeate...
Pentagon, Lockheed Martin reach agreement for 90 F-35 jets
Feb 03, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Department of Defense has reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin for the next 90 F-35 fighter jets in a move officials say lowers the price for the ...
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