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Multiple countries set to receive new eyes in the sky for Apache attack helicopters
Oct 20, 2017 (UPI)
The Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor or M-TADS/PNVS system has been ordered by the United States, United Kingdom and th...
U.S. taps Elbit for pilot HUD display units
Oct 20, 2017 (UPI)
The two-year award to Elbit Systems America, announced Tuesday, is worth $31.5 million and was issued by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime. "E...
State Dept. proposes $343B C-17 support contract with Kuwait
Oct 20, 2017 (UPI)
The contract, which requires approval from Congress before being finalized, is said to be worth an estimated $342.6 million and would meet a request from Kuwait...
Finland issues RFI for aircraft weapons, equipment
Oct 20, 2017 (UPI)
Finnish Defense Forces said the requests were sent to France, Germany, Britain, Israel, Norway, Sweden and the United States, and are to be forwarded to their r...
Lawsuit seeks records regarding 2000 V-22 Osprey crash
Oct 20, 2017 (UPI)
During a joint press conference in Washington, D.C., Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., along with Trisha Brow and Connie Bruber, the wives of U.S. Marine pilots Lt. Co...
Hear This: 30 Percent Less Noise
Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)
The second phase of the project, ACTE II, which is expected to continue this fall and conclude at the end of the year, will build on the research and data colle...
Greece defends F-16 warplane upgrade amid cost criticism
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
"We are discussing the upgrade of (around 90) aircraft at a maximum cost of 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) over a period of ten years," government spokesman D...
Researchers Develop New Tool to Evaluate Icephobic Materials
Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)
While NASA has spent decades studying the effects of aircraft icing, aerospace researchers are also developing new "icephobic" materials for aircraft components...
Afghan air force gets its own Black Hawk choppers
Oct 15, 2017 (AFP)
A second look at the UH-60 Black Hawk reveals a vital distinction: the US Army's insignia has vanished, replaced by the triangular logo of the Afghan security f...
F-35 stealth fighter data stolen in Australia defence hack
Oct 12, 2017 (AFP)
The 50-person aerospace engineering firm was compromised in July last year but the national cyber security agency, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), onl...
Air Force pilot shortage has grown, is 'stretching the force to the limit'
Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)
In September, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Goldfein told attendees at the annual Air Crew Summit at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland that the service is "in a cr...
Boeing KC-46A tankers exchange fuel mid-flight for first time
Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)
The refueling demonstration by a Boeing and Air Force test team occurred during a recent four-hour flight, during which the two aircraft transferred 38,100 poun...
Tokyo residents win compensation over US military base noise
Oct 11, 2017 (AFP)
Tokyo District Court ordered the Japanese government to pay residents some 610 million yen ($5.5 million) in total. But it rejected their call to block flights ...
Trudeau warns Trump in Bombardier, Boeing row
Oct 11, 2017 (AFP)
The US aerospace firm, claiming its competitor received unfair state subsidies, successfully petitioned the Trump administration to impose financial penalties o...
Afghan Air Force receives first two UH-60A Black Hawks
Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)
The UH-60A Black Hawks were welcomed earlier this month at an airfield in Kandahar by President Ashraf Ghani and other Afghan and U.S. officials, the U.S. Army ...
Lockheed awarded contract for integration of F-35, SDB-II
Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)
The deal is estimated to be worth more than $34.6 million and is classified as a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract -- where Lockheed Martin will be reimbursed by the...
Peraton to help sustain DHS, TSA screening equipment
Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)
The work for the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration comes under a five-year $578 million government contract. "Our work ...
Five killed as India military chopper crashes
Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)
The Russian-made MI-17 helicopter was on a training sortie in the mountainous district of Tawang near the border with Tibet when it crashed, the officer said. I...
Boeing-backed startup eyes hybrid electric plane in 2022
Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)
Zunum Aero, a Seattle startup that counts both Boeing and air carrier JetBlue as investors, released details about an aircraft that could carry 12 passengers up...
Navy T-45 crash renews concerns about the trainer aircraft
Oct 05, 2017 (UPI)
Lt. Patrick L. Ruth, 31, of Metairie, La., and Lt. j.g. Wallace E. Burch, 25, of Horn Lake, Miss., died when their T-45C Goshawk, a military jet-training aircra...
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