Helsinki has yet to eliminate any of the five fighter manufacturers who responded to the request for information sent out by the Finnish Defense Forces’ Logistics Command back in April 2016.
The government has approved the latest iteration of the F-35’s troubled fleet management system, which fully integrates data from the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine, for installation on U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force sites.
The ship, expected to be named after the province Shandong, is a near-sibling of the first Chinese carrier, Liaoning, which itself follows much the same design as the Russian ship Kuznetsov.
A spokeswoman for the F-35's Joint Program Office says the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps have made no plans to send the fifth-generation fighter to this summer's major European air shows.
Arianespace has rescheduled its next Ariane 5 launch for May 4 local time at the company’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, following the strikes and social unrest that forced the European launch provider to suspend operations for a month.
In Washington the all-too-familiar specter of a U.S. federal government shutdown looms as Congress scrambles to arrive at a bipartisan spending bill by Friday.
The U.S. Air Force wants to competitively buy up to three new EELV secondary payload adapters with “power, attitude control, and propulsive capabilities,” allowing the adapter ring to continue supporting non-separating satellites throughout their mission.
A new, state-of-the-art air traffic control tower for the city of Houston’s Ellington Airport and Spaceport is expected to be operational by the end of next year.
Lockheed says after 18 months of system-level design and development, the Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) is now moving into the detailed design phase.
Slovakian startup AeroMobil has unveiled its production flying car, which it plans to certify under Europe’s newly revamped CS-23 regulations for first deliveries in 2020.
F-35 INTEGRATED TEST FORCE on March 29 released a specially-built GBU-12 Paveway II guided bomb from an F-35C at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, CA, engaging a small pickup truck March 29, marking the first weapon test of an F-35 with 3F software, designed to enhance effectiveness against moving targets. INDIAN NAVY on April 21 test-fired the BrahMos Land Attack Supersonic Cruise Missile from the guided missile frigate Teg, to a target on land.
U.S. Navy trainees are experiencing symptoms of hypoxia while learning to fly the T-45 Goshawk, which prompted to service to ground the aircraft on April 5 to look for the cause. Instructor pilots reported “physiological episodes in the cockpit” caused by contamination in the on-board oxygen generation system. Currently the Navy has limited flights to no higher than 5,000 ft and no more than 2g maneuvering while tests on the oxygen system continue.
The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a multiyear contract worth up to $1.6 billion for full-rate production of the truck-mounted TPQ-53 counterfire radar.
