If Qatar chooses to exercise an option for 12 additional Rafales, Dassault Aviation could be on the hook to deliver nearly 100 combat jets to foreign buyers by around the end of the decade.
The Qatari national airline already operates three daily services to Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) with Airbus A340 and A380 aircraft, and now appears to have secured traffic rights to fly three times a week each to Nice-Côte d’Azur and Lyon-Saint Exupéry, respectively.
Years of economic sanctions and limited access to the global arms market seem not to have dulled Iran’s ability to develop or modify weapons and equipment.
The Netherlands, Norway and Poland will issue a request for proposals “in days” to Airbus Defense and Space, paving the way for a joint purchase of A330 multi-role tanker transport aircraft.
Until now, the military has driven development of unmanned aerial vehicles. But the U.S. Navy X-47B’s recent aerial refueling demonstration could be a transition point for the fledgling industry, in which commercial players are increasingly pushing the technical edge.
India is likely to sign a nearly $2.5 billion deal for 22 AH-64E Apache and 15 CH-47F Chinook heavy lift helicopters during an upcoming visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.
Blue Origin sent its New Shepard suborbital human spacecraft to an altitude of 307,000 ft. over West Texas, with a “perfect” first developmental flight of the crew capsule but loss of the reusable cryogenic booster to a hydraulic-system failure.
France has garnered its third export order for the Rafale combat jet in as many months with a commitment from Qatar to purchase at least 24 of the Dassault Aviation aircraft, an agreement that eases pressure on French defense spending.
Deeper dive into Air Force requirements and the competing teams’ capabilities establishes Northrop Grumman as an overwhelming favorite to produce the LRS-B.
U.S. Navy faces a choice between reducing risk and reducing competition for the Uclass carrier-based unmanned aircraft if it keeps X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrators flying.
An extra $5 billion set aside in the U.S. Air Force’s black and white budget plan for fiscal 2016 is largely dedicated to projects for shoring up and protecting space assets, says Air Force Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, military deputy to the service’s procurement czar.
Saab has unveiled a major upgrade of the JAS 39C/D Gripen’s radar, intended to double its detection and tracking range and give it the ability to track low-radar-cross-section targets.
