Aerospace News
US Air Force Moving Forward with Lockheed's JASSM-XR missile development
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a US$51 million contract for Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Extreme Range (JASSM-XR) development and testin...
Boeing awarded $2.85Bn order for Lot 4 KC-46 delivery
Boeing has been awarded a US$2,85 billion contract for lot 4 production KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft, initial spares, and support equipment, the...
Meggit to provide South Korea's KF-X program with new Engine Vibration Monitoring Unit
Meggitt PLC, a leading international company specialising in high performance components and sub-systems for the aerospace, defence and energy mark...
Seaplane Global Air Services orders 10 Be-200ES amphibious aircraft
The US-based company Seaplane Global Air Services on September 8 ordered 10 Be-200ES, the Russian aircraft makers consortium UAC said announced in ...
Indian LCA Tejas successfully completes Mid-Air Refueling trial
India on Monday joined the elite group of countries who have developed the air-to-air refueling (AAR) system for military aircraft when a warplane ...
Belgian F-16 intercepts Russian An-12 airlifter above Baltics
Both Allied detachments in the Baltics conducted their first alert scramble yesterday performing visual identification of Russian Federation aircra...
Russian Helicopters lands massive order for 152 medical helicopters
During the Hydroaviasalon-2018 exhibition, subsidiaries of Rostec State Corporation — Russian Helicopters, National Service of Medical Aviation and...
Belgium C-130H airlifter to temporarily support French Operation Barkhane
The Belgian Council of Ministers on Friday agreed on to temporarily allocate a Belgian Air Force (BAF) C-130H military airlifter to support the Fre...
DFS Aviation Services to provide European MALE RPAS Preliminary Safety Assessment
The European MALE RPAS Programme Division (MRPD) placed a contract with the German Air Navigation Service Provider – DFS Aviation Services (DAS) – ...
Rostec launches T-500A aircraft amphibious variant
Russian State Corporation Rostec has presented T-500A aircraft with flotation landing gear for water deployment at the Hydroaviasalon-2018 exhibiti...
GAIC rolls out first FTC-2000G multirole fighter jet
China-developed FTC-2000G, an export version versatile aircraft, on Wednesday hit the production line in the city of Anshun in southwest China's Gu...
Bulgaria issues tender for Su-25 CAS aircraft overhaul
The Bulgarian Air Force (BuAF) is planning to conduct the maintain, repair and overhaul (MRO) of its Sukhoi Su-25 (NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) c...
KC-46 tanker and transport aircraft achieves FAA certification
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Boeing’s KC-46 tanker program a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC), verifying that its ...
Boeing and PGZ join forces for Poland's Kruk attack helicopter program
Boeing and Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) have signed an agreement to partner on a range of business opportunities for the AH-64 Apache in support ...
Russia redeploys Su-30SMs and Il-78Ms to Syria for drills over Mediterranean
Multirole Su-30SM (Flanker by NATO classification) fighter jets of the naval aviation and Il-78M (Midas) air tankers were redeployed to Humaymim ai...
Sierra Nevada lands $1.8Bn FMS for A-29 Super Tucano supply to Afghanistan
Sierra Nevada Corp. has been awarded a ceiling US$1,8 billion IDIQ contract for potential procurement, sustainment, modifications, ferry, and relat...
RAAF F-35A launches GBU-31 guided bombs for the first time
An Australian F-35A aircraft dropped two inert GBU-31v3 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) weapons for the first time on July 20, marking a ground...
Upgraded Su-30SM to be powered by AL-41F-1S engine
Upgraded Su-30SM fighter jets will be equipped with turbojet engines of Su-35S aircraft, Ufa engine-manufacturing company (ODK-UMPO) said in its pa...
Sentient Vision Systems joins Team Reaper Australia
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), yesterday announced the further expansion of Team Reaper Australia. Sentient Vision Syste...
Belgian Air Force takes over Baltic air policing duties in Lithuania
The Belgian Air Force on August 31 has assumed the lead role for NATO’s Baltic Air Policing from the Portuguese Air Force and replaced the augmenti...