Aerospace News
Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) by Lockheed Martin successfully defends drone threat
Lockheed Martin recently demonstrated their laser weapon system for the U.S. Air Force at a government test range at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where the...
Boeing awarded contract for Laser Small Diameter Bomb
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a $22,482,383 contract for Laser Small Diameter Bomb all up rounds and warhead shipping conta...
UK: DASA awards £2m contracts to counter hostile drone threats
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has announced that it has awarded nearly £2m to develop new capabilities to detect, disrupt, and defeat...
Northrop Grumman to support the Australian Defence Force’s joint data network
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract by the Australian Defence Force Tactical Data Link Authority (ADFTA) to deliver tactical d...
Southeast Asian military customer awards AeroVironment $6.4 Million Raven tactical UAS follow-on contract award
AeroVironment, Inc., a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), today announced it received a firm fixed-price contract valued at $6,408,5...
Poland to replace Mi-24s with new combat helicopters
The Polish military is planning to scrap its Mil Mi-24 ‘Hind’ combat helicopters, replacing them with modern platforms under the Kruk (Raven) progr...
Saab’s new Electronic Attack Jammer Pod (EAJP) in the air
Saab carried out the first flight tests with its new advanced Electronic Attack Jammer Pod (EAJP) with successful results on 4 November 2019. The p...
Russia makes monitoring flight over Germany
The Russian Tu-154M LK-1 aircraft is making a monitoring flight over Germany in the framework of the Open Sky Treaty, the Russian Defense Ministry ...
GA-ASI's Predator series aircraft pass six Million flight hours
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) today announced that its Predator-series of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), which includes the...
US Navy awards $146M contract for MV-22 block B - to - C conversions
The Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office was awarded a $146 million modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, fixed-price-incentive-fir...
Airbus Defence reveals LOUT, Low Observable UAV Testbed
After more than a decade as a secret project, Airbus Defence reveals LOUT (Low Observable UAV Testbed), a holistic platform approach to stealth, co...
Armenian Air Force to be re-equipped with SU-30SM fighter jets
The Armenian Air Force should be taking delivery of the Su-30SM fighter jet from Russia in the coming months.
Thales upgrades French Navy's E-2C Hawkeye flight simulator
Less than a year after being awarded the contract, Thales has completed a full hardware and software upgrade of the visual system of the flight sim...
Russia’s Orion attack drone arrives for troops after Syria experience
The MALE-class (Medium Altitude, Long Endurance) drone Orion has started arriving for experimental combat operation in Russia’s Aerospace Force aft...
Israeli Air Force launching new C-130 simulators
New simulators for the "Karnaf" and "Shimshon" aircraft are due to be integrated in Nevatim AFB in approximately three years.
BAE Systems will develop new 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 (...
Finland: Revised Request for Quotation for HX program new fighter aircraft
The Finnish Defence Forces' Logistics Command sent a Revised Request for Quotation for the HX Program on 31 October 2019. The HX Fighter Progr...
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...