AEROSPACE - INDO DAILY

Air transport sector at climate juncture

Sep 28, 2016 (AFP)

After years of delays and failures, the airline industry began on Wednesday complex negotiations to implement a scheme to reduce its carbon footprint. Although ...

Bell contracted to supply helicopters to Uganda, Kenya

Sep 27, 2016 (UPI)

The U.S. Army has awarded Bell Helicopter foreign military sales contracts worth $86.9 million to supply Huey II helicopters to Kenya and Uganda. The company wi...

French fighter jet deal: an Indian saga

Sep 25, 2016 (AFP)

The less-than-supersonic sale of French Rafale fighter jets to India has highlighted the obstacles facing foreign arms firms seeking to do business with the wor...

India signs deal for acquisition of 36 Rafale fighter jets

Sep 23, 2016 (UPI)

India signed an agreement Friday with France's Dassault Aviation for the acquisition of 36 Rafale fighter jets. The deal is said to be worth about $8.8 billion ...

Japan wins State Dept. approval for KC-46A acquisition

Sep 22, 2016 (UPI)

Japan is seeking to buy four Boeing KC-46A aerial refueling tankers from the United States through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program. The proposed sale, w...

NASA-funded scientific balloon program wraps up fourth campaign

Sep 22, 2016 (SPX)

The scientists of the BARREL team sent their last balloon soaring toward the stratosphere over Sweden on Aug. 30, 2016, capping off four years of launches to st...

Raytheon receives $254 million Joint Precision Approach and Landing System contract

Sep 22, 2016 (UPI)

Raytheon has been awarded a $254 million U.S. Navy contract for work on the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, or JPALS. The cost-plus-incentive-fee c...

No evidence MH370 'debris' exposed to fire: Australia

Sep 22, 2016 (AFP)

Possible debris from missing passenger jet MH370 handed over by a US amateur investigator was not "exposed to heat or fire", Australian authorities said Thursda...

Indian ministers approve Rafale fighter jet deal

Sep 21, 2016 (AFP)

An Indian cabinet committee gave its approval Wednesday to a long-delayed deal to buy 36 fighter jets from France's Dassault, as the country looks to bolster it...

Sukhoi T-50 jet cannon test-fired in Russia

Sep 21, 2016 (UPI)

Russia's United Aircraft Corporation has posted video of a test firing of the cannon for the fifth-generation Sukhoi T-50 fighter jet. The video was posted late...

NASA collision avoidance system saves unconscious F-16 Pilot

Sep 21, 2016 (SPX)

Two pilots who credit a NASA-supported technology with saving one of their lives during a May training exercise mishap paid a visit to NASA Armstrong Flight Res...

Lufthansa signs joint venture with Air China

Sep 20, 2016 (AFP)

German airline Lufthansa and Air China said on Tuesday they had signed a deal to jointly operate all the groups' connections between Europe and China. "The Chin...

Lockheed to receive $147 million for Tactical Boost Glide prototype

Sep 20, 2016 (UPI)

Lockheed Martin has been awarded $147 million for a research project under the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Tactical Boost Glide program. The...

L-3 gets $166 million contract for T-45 trainer support

Sep 20, 2016 (UPI)

L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace has been awarded a $166 million U.S. Navy contract modification for support services for the T-45 Goshawk trainer aircraft. ...

Harris gets $54 million contract for aircraft countermeasures system

Sep 20, 2016 (UPI)

Harris Corp. has been awarded a $54 million U.S. Air Force contract for engineering work on the AN/ALQ-172 aircraft countermeasure system. The cost-plus-fixed f...

Pilots eject as U-2 spy plane crashes in California

Sep 20, 2016 (AFP)

Two US pilots safely ejected from a U-2 spy plane on a training mission before the aircraft crashed in rural California, the Air Force said Tuesday. The plane c...

Cobham receives orders for F-35 microelectronics

Sep 20, 2016 (UPI)

Cobham reports that it has received a series of orders for radio frequency microelectronics in support of the F-35 Lightning II program. The electronics company...

Lockheed gets $136 million delivery order for F-35 spares

Sep 19, 2016 (UPI)

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics has been awarded a $136 million U.S. Navy delivery order for aircraft common spare parts, including for the F-35. The not-to-exceed ...

Future US bomber will be called Raider, honoring planes that hit Japan

Sep 19, 2016 (AFP)

The long-range US strike bomber of the future will be called the Raider, in honor of warplanes that staged a surprise attack against Japan during World War II, ...

Egyptian Navy receives second Mistral helicopter carrier

Sep 19, 2016 (UPI)

The Egyptian Navy has received a second Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Dock, or LHD, ship from French naval shipbuilder DCNS. The change of flag ceremony for ...