As part of a collaboration with Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody that includes using L-159Es to provide air services such a threat simulation to the U.S. military, Draken International is offering the L-39NG upgrade program to operators of the Czech-built jet trainer in the Americas.
A shortage of pilots and mechanics is challenging helicopter operators in China, even though manufacturers such as Bell Helicopter are investing in customer support.
Four years after launch of the first of a new fleet of missile-warning satellites, the U.S. Air Force is planning to test the system’s newest technology – a powerful infrared staring sensor – in an operational assessment.
For any other aerospace and defense contractor, it would have been a great first quarter. But for Boeing, Wall Street is expressing its mild disappointment over the first financial results of 2015.
Northrop Grumman will contribute as much as $17.5 million over three years to the California Institute of Technology for space solar power (SSP) development work.
French President Francois Hollande says Paris will reimburse Moscow the money it has paid toward construction and delivery of two helicopter gunships if the long-delayed delivery of two Mistral-class carriers does not take place.
Source-selection officials at NASA have delayed awarding the second set of contracts for commercial cargo delivery to the International Space Station “to allow additional time to evaluate proposals.”
As Huntington Ingalls Industries zeroes in on homestretch work needed to complete the aircraft carrier CVN 78 Gerald R. Ford at its Newport News Shipbuilding yard, the U.S. Navy wants to ensure the lowest possible cost for carrier CVN 79 John F. Kennedy.
NEW DELHI—India is working with its neighbors to establish a dedicated satellite for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) region by next year to fulfill the requirement for satellite transponders for communication and weather forecasting.
Lockheed Martin is looking ahead to a company-funded surface-launched test of its Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (Lrasm) in preparation for an expected U.S. Navy competition.
Almost a year after rollout, significant work remains before the CH-53K can take to the air. But once the helicopter is airborne, developer Sikorsky maintains tests can move quickly because of work accomplished on the ground, and the Marines still expect initial operational capability in 2019.
Indian Space Research Organization Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar says the Mangalyaan mission still has 39 kg of fuel and is likely to survive “several years” in orbit.
Poland has selected Airbus Helicopters to provide the country’s future military utility helicopters, while Raytheon’s Patriot has been chosen as Warsaw’s next generation surface-to-air missile system.
Airbus Helicopters will soon begin testing a new lightweight digital health and usage monitoring system (HUMS) which could be used on light-single and twin-engine helicopters
The Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) and Afghanistan’s Ministries of Defense and Interior “did not have controls in place to effectively manage accountability of the approximately 95,000 vehicles procured by DoD (Department of Defense) for Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) since 2005,” the Pentagon Inspector General says.
