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Australia searches ocean site for possible plane debris

Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)

Surveillance aircraft scoured a remote and stormy section of the Indian Ocean on Thursday for a pair of floating objects that Australia and Malaysia guardedly c...

Secretive Beijing demands transparency over missing jet

Mar 18, 2014 (AFP)

China's strident calls for Malaysia to divulge all it knows about flight MH370 are in stark contrast to its own history of secretiveness when calamities have st...

Luke Air Force Base Receives First F-35A Lightning II

Mar 18, 2014 (SPX)

The first Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II assigned to the 56th Fighter Wing was officially delivered during a ceremony attended by dignitaries and hundreds of...

NASA Centers Team Up to Tackle Sonic Boom

Mar 18, 2014 (SPX)

Since the Concorde's final landing at London's Heathrow Airport nearly a decade ago, commercial supersonic air travel has been as elusive as a piece of lost lug...

Malaysia under scrutiny as plane mystery drags on

Mar 18, 2014 (AFP)

Malaysia vehemently denies mishandling crucial information on the fate of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370, but questions persist as to whether early misste...

China finds no terror link to nationals on Malaysia plane

Mar 18, 2014 (AFP)

Intelligence checks on 153 Chinese passengers on a missing Malaysian airliner produced no red flags, China said Tuesday, as Malaysia marshalled ships and planes...

Central Asian states report no sightings of Malaysian jet

Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)

The Central Asian states of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan on Monday said there had been no sightings of the missing Malaysian passenger jet following reports that i...

Malaysia probe spotlights DIY politico, and groom-to-be

Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)

The cockpit crew now under scrutiny over Malaysia's missing airliner are a politically active captain who enjoyed cooking and home improvements, and a young co-...

LONGBOW Receives Support Contract for UK Apache Fire Control Systems

Mar 16, 2014 (SPX)

LONGBOW International, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, received a $96 million contract in 2013 from AgustaWestland to support LONGBOW F...

Malaysia doubles scale of plane search, pilots probed

Mar 16, 2014 (AFP)

Malaysia said Sunday the number of countries searching for a missing airliner had nearly doubled to 25 as a full-scale criminal probe into its disappearance got...

MH370's pilots: An engineering buff, and a 'good boy'

Mar 16, 2014 (AFP)

The captain of a missing Malaysian jet is an engineering buff who assembled his own home flight simulator, while friends of the co-pilot have defended his reput...

Plane mystery deepens Malaysia Airlines' financial woes

Mar 16, 2014 (AFP)

The mystery surrounding the fate of a possibly hijacked Malaysia Airlines plane raises the spectre of costly lawsuits and a damaging drop in bookings for a nati...

Families face worst nightmare of mid-air ordeal on MH370

Mar 16, 2014 (AFP)

New revelations about a missing Malaysia Airlines plane have left anguished relatives contemplating the prospect that those on board endured a terrifying high-a...

Malaysia rejects jet 'debris' images and four-hour flight report

Mar 13, 2014 (AFP)

Malaysia said Thursday that satellite images of suspected debris from a missing jet were yet another false lead, and debunked a report the plane had flown on fo...

China spots floating objects in Malaysia jet hunt

Mar 13, 2014 (AFP)

Chinese satellites have detected possible debris from a Malaysian jet that vanished with 239 people on board, offering a new lead Thursday in one of the most my...

Lockheed Martin To Upgrade Apache Targeting and Pilotage System

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin received a $14 million contract in 2013 from the U.S. Army to design, integrate and qualify a High Reliability Turret for the Modernized Target ...

Prague extends lease of Swedish Gripen fighters till 2027

Mar 12, 2014 (AFP)

The Czech government on Wednesday renewed its lease on 14 Swedish fighter jets until 2027, its defence minister said. The Czech army has been using the Gripen o...

US regulators warned of problems on Boeing 777s

Mar 12, 2014 (AFP)

Months before Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 mysteriously vanished, US regulators warned of a "cracking and corrosion" problem on Boeing 777s that could lead to...

Malaysia Airlines mystery revives black-box debate

Mar 11, 2014 (AFP)

The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has rekindled a debate over the iconic "black box" flight recorder and whether it's time for aircraft to start live-...

Singapore to buy Airbus refuelling tankers for air force

Mar 06, 2014 (AFP)

Singapore said Thursday it would replace its ageing KC-135R air refuelling tankers made by US firm Boeing with Airbus's A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) ...