2018
Australian F-35 fleet to receive Quickstep and Chemring countermeasures flares
Chemring Australia and Quickstep Holdings have secured funding for product development and cost reduction initiatives for F-35 Lightning II (Joint ...
French Boeing E-3F AWACS fleet to receive software upgrades
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $9.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity modification (#64) to contract (F19628-01-D-0016), sup...
General Electric awarded USD 630 million contract for F414 engines
General Electric is awarded a $630.5 million firm-fixed-priced, performance-based logistics requirements type contract for repair, replacement and ...
Raytheon contracted for 250 MALD Missiles by US Air Force
Raytheon Company received a $96.1 million contract to produce 250 Miniature Air-Launched Decoys, or MALD® missiles. The U.S. Air Force award occurr...
USAF, US Navy to receive StormBreaker bomb to hit in all weather conditions
Unites States of America will soon get the 250-pound (113 kilogramme) StormBreaker bomb, which has the ability to hit moving targets in all-weather...
Philippine air force FA-50 jets join interoperability exercise in Palawan
The Palawan-based Western Command is currently holding a joint exercise that seeks to boost the interoperability of all its service branch. The DAG...
France approves renewal of MICA missiles for Rafale and Mirage 2000 fighters
France is launching the MICA NG (Next Generation) program. This program will renew the MICA (Missile d’interception, de combat et d’autodéfense) of...
Russian MiG 29SMT train destroying cruise missiles, drones
MiG-29SMT fighter jets intercepted conditional adversary aircraft and destroyed cruise missiles and drones at an exercise in Astrakhan region, the ...
Saab JAS 39C Gripen of Swedish Air Force dropped 500 lbs bomb on forest fire
Wide forested areas of Sweden are currently ablaze, due to an unprecedented hot weather linked to climate change. Some of them are hard to reach an...
RAF Eurofighters to receive new Saab self-protection system
Saab has received an order from BAE Systems for development of a new pyrotechnic smart self-protection system for the Eurofighter “Typhoon II” to d...
MQ-4C Triton UAV readied by Northrop for Signal Intelligence
Signals intelligence (SIGINT) experts at Northrop Grumman Corp. are preparing to upgrade the U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton long-range unmanned aerial vehi...
Rehearsal of the Belgian national day air parade of 21 July 2018
Managing an air parade - be it for a national day or not - that involves several types of helicopters and airplanes due to overfly a same place in ...