Aerospace News
IAF & USAF signed new cooperation agreement
An agreement incorporating all fields of cooperation between the IAF & USAF in 2018-2019 was signed on August 1st, the IAF said. The document d...
US Air Force receives final upgraded C-5M Galaxy
Lockheed Martin delivered the 52nd C-5M Super Galaxy strategic transport modernized under the U.S. Air Force's Reliability Enhancement and Re-engin...
Indonesia expecting first Su-35 fighter jet for October
Indonesia is waiting to receive the first Su-35 Russian fighter jet by October this year, Indonesian Ambassador to Russia Mohammad Wahid Supriyadi ...
US oks potential FMS from Latvia for UH-60M helicopters
The US State Department approved on August 3rd a possible Foreign Military Sale to Latvia of four UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters and related equipme...
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 ...
BAE Systems to provide UAE with new F-16 flight controls
BAE Systems has been selected by Lockheed Martin to provide flight controls to upgrade next-generation F-16 aircraft for the United Arab Emirates.B...
IAI and Aero jointly unveil F/A-259 multirole fighter jet
Aero, the biggest Czech aircraft manufacturer, and Israeli Aerospace Industries, world leader in defense systems technologies, introduced cost-effe...
Qinetiq hands over first PC-21 to Empire Test Pilots’ School
Qinetiq handed over the first PC-21 Pilatus trainer to the to the Empire Test Pilots’ School (ETPS), the company announced on July 18, 2018. Under ...
Airbus opens first Zephyr HAPS serial assembly line
Airbus Defence and Space has unveiled the new Zephyr S HAPS (High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite) to the world at Farnborough Air Show yesterday morning...