2020
U.S. Army gets closer to self-adjusting turbine engines
A team of U.S. Army and academic researchers developed a novel design to automatically adjust aircraft rotor blade positions while already in-fligh...
General Atomics delivers final two MQ-9A Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft to Spanish Air Force
According to a press release published on November 30, 2020, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) delivered the final two MQ-9A Bloc...
Mali orders an additional Airbus C295 CASA military transport aircraft
According to a press release published on December 2, 2020, the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Mali has placed a firm order for an addition...
Rheinmetall to supply MK82-EP general purpose bombs to French and German air forces
Rheinmetall’s advanced MK-82-EP general purpose aircraft bomb has recently scored major successes in France and Germany. France’s procurement autho...
Raytheon to supply USSOCOM aircraft with Silent Night radars
The U.S. Department of Defense on December 1 announced that Raytheon Technologies was awarded a $235,576,667 C-Type, multi-year procurement contrac...
Boeing to supply sustainment and related equipment worth USD275 Mn to Canadian Air Force C-17s
The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency on December 1 published that the State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreig...
Northrop lands potential USD 4.8Bn US Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk UAS modernization contract
Northrop Grumman has received a potential $4.8B contract to update, refurbish and sustain the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned a...
Kongsberg awarded second follow-on Joint Strike Missile contract with Japan
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace has entered into a second Follow-on contract with Japan to supply the JSM (Joint Strike Missile) for their fleet ...
Canadian company Top Aces to buy Israeli F-16s
According to the Israeli newspaper Globe that published the information on November 30, Israel’s Ministry of Defense is in talks with Canada’s Top ...
US Air Force completes test drop of B61-12 nuclear bomb mockup from F-35 fighter aircraft
According to a statement published on November 23, 2020, A mockup B61-12’s strike in the dusty Nevada desert successfully completed the first in a ...
Australian Air Force C-17A performs first season Antarctic flight to Wilkins Aerodome
According to a tweet ôsted by the Royal Australian Air Force on November 30, the first flight of the season for Op Southern Discovery has delivered...
Elbit Systems to supply rotary-wing mission training center to European customer
Elbit Systems announced on November 29 that it was awarded a contract valued at approximately $96 million to supply an undisclosed European country...
Embraer delivers first modernized E99 Airborne early warning and control aircraft to Brazilian Air Force
According to a press release published on November 27, 20020, during a ceremony held on November 27, 2020, at the Embraer facility in Gavião Peixot...
French Air and Space Force receives its first A330-200 Phenix
Florence Parly, French Minister of Defense, announced in June 2020 the military component of the aeronautics support plan. Three A330-200 planes we...
Malmstrom Air Force Base first to receive new MH-139 Grey Wolf helicopters
U.S. Air Force officials said Cascade County, Montana-based Malmstrom Air Force Base will be the first site to receive new MH-139 Grey Wolf helicop...
KnAAZ fulfils Sukhoi Su-35S fighter jet contract
The aircraft plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur (KnAAZ) handed over multirole Su-35S fighter jets to the Defense Ministry, the UAC said. “We have complete...
Japan Air Force retires its last F-4EJ Phantoms
Japan’s Air Force officially retired its last Phantom fighter jets on November 20 with a live broadcast ceremony. The McDonnell F-4 flew for the Ja...
101 Airborne soldiers help with design of Army V-280 Valor Future Assault Aircraft
Soldiers from the famed 2-506th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) descended on the Bell Helicopter ...
European Air Chiefs hold virtual meeting
This week, General Aviator Thierry Dupont, chief of the Belgian Air Component, chaired a meeting with the seven partner countries of the European A...
Lockheed Martin awarded contract to integrate AARGM-ER into F-35 programme
On the 23rd of November, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that Lockheed Martin Aeronautics has been awarded a $9,326,062 cost-plus-fixed-fe...