Aerospace News
UK takes delivery of first RAF Boeing P-8 Poseidon MRA1
The UK’s Ministry of Defence has taken delivery of the first Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Boeing P-8 Poseidon MRA1 submarine hunter.
International customer orders air defence systems from Rheinmetall
Rheinmetall has won an order from an international customer for state-of-the-art air defence systems. The contract, which is now official, is worth...
Elbit Systems awarded $50 Million contract by the Portuguese MoD to provide a complete EW suite for new KC-390 aircraft
Elbit Systems Ltd. announced on October 31 that it was awarded a contract valued at approximately $50 million from the Portuguese Ministry of Defen...
Lockheed Martin to provide enhanced electronic warfare capabilities to U.S. Army and coalition helicopters
Under terms of a recent contract, Lockheed Martin will provide the U.S. Army and foreign military customers additional electronic warfare systems t...
Lockheed Martin GPS Spatial Temporal Anti-Jam Receiver (GSTAR) system to be integrated in F-35 modernization
Lockheed Martin received a $25 million initial contract award for engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) for the GPS Spatial Temporal Anti...
US Army engineering center tests new unmanned aircraft system
The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center's newly acquired unmanned aircraft system took to the skies for its first formal set of survey flights...
Pentagon and Lockheed Martin reach agreement reducing F-35A cost by 12.8 percent
The F-35 Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) finalized a $34 billion agreement for the production and delivery of 478 F-35s at the...
Bangladesh orders Leonardo’s high-tech air surveillance radar
The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) has ordered Leonardo’s KRONOS LAND radar to provide air surveillance, allowing operators to detect and track targets...
US Air Force requests proposals for light attack aircraft
The US Air Force released final requests for proposal Oct. 24 for a limited number of Textron Aviation AT-6 and Sierra Nevada Corporation/Embr...
Raytheon completed the first power generation flight test of the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) completed the first power generation flight test of the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band. The U.S. Navy will use the te...
Zipline deploys medical delivery drones with U.S. Military
Zipline, a drone-delivery startup announced it’s testing medical supply drones with US military. Zipline, which already delivers emergency medical ...
BAE Systems to develop advanced decoy countermeasures to protect aircraft from future threats
BAE Systems announced a $36.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and demonstrate a next-generation, dual band Fiber-Optic Towed Decoy (...
US Air Force Research Laboratory developing space solar power beaming
The US Air Force Research Laboratory is developing space-based solar power transmission capability using high-efficiency solar cells to collect the...
Russian Korsar drone may get a seaborne option
The Korsar drone may get a seaborne option, Director for foreign economic activities of Luch Design Bureau Oleg Filippov said.
F-35 fully loaded for first time on HMS Queen Elizabeth
A British F-35 Lightning stealth fighter ‘tooled up’ for the first time on the deck of a Royal Navy aircraft carrier. Loaded on to this state-of-th...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. gets $18M to weaponize French MQ-9
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $17,868,222 undefinitized contract action for the Fr...
Czech Republic joins NATO Multi-Role Tanker Transport Fleet program
On October 24, the Czech Republic joined a multinational effort to acquire and operate new tanker transport aircraft – the Multi Role Tanker Transp...
Lockheed Martin awarded contract for France's C-130-J support
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Corp., Marietta, Georgia, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $12,437,030 undefinitized contractual action contract for C-...
EuroDASS consortium launches concept for future Typhoon defensive aids sub-system
The EuroDASS consortium (Leonardo, Elettronica, Indra and Hensoldt), which provides the Praetorian Defensive Aids Sub System (DASS) for the Eurofig...
Airbus Helicopters delivers first NH90 Sea Lion to the German Armed Forces
Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first NH90 Sea Lion naval multi-role helicopter to the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Tec...
