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Lockheed to build F-35 maintenance, repair facility for Japanese fleet
Aug 28, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced Tuesday, calls for construction of a regional facility to handle repairs, as well as maintenance and upgrades, on Japan's F-35s. The fac...
Bye Aerospace Finalizes Garmin Supplier Agreement to Provide eFlyer 2 Avionics
Aug 28, 2019 (SPX)
"Garmin is supplying the full VFR to IFR instrument capability, ADAHRS, GPS, transponders and standby instruments," said George E. Bye, CEO of Bye Aerospace. "W...
Three B-2 stealth bombers arrive in Britain for exercises
Aug 28, 2019 (UPI)
A Bomber Task Force deployment, from Whiteman AFB, Mo. -- which includes the aircraft, as well as airmen and support equipment -- arrived early Tuesday morning ...
Turkey to seek 'alternatives' to US F-35 fighter jet
Aug 28, 2019 (AFP)
Washington said last month Turkey will be scrapped from the F-35 programme after Ankara bought Russian S-400 air defence systems. "We need war jets. If we canno...
NASA's BITSE Solar Scope Is Ready for Balloon Flight Over New Mexico
Aug 27, 2019 (SPX)
A balloon - large enough to hug a football field - is scheduled to take flight no earlier than Aug. 26, 2019, carrying beneath it a solar scope called BITSE. BI...
Lockheed nets $2.43B to cover spare parts for global F-35 fleet
Aug 26, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced on Friday, calls for global spares packages, base spares packages, deployment spares packages, afloat spares packages and associated har...
Boeing wins $23.6M contract to keep Navy F/A-18 planes flying
Aug 23, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, a modification of a prior contract and announced on Thursday by the Defense Department, calls for engineering, logistics, and program management o...
Air Force C-130s back in service after checks for wing cracks
Aug 23, 2019 (UPI)
The 112 aircraft, of 450 total in the fleet, returned to worldwide service after they were grounded on Aug. 7 to examine what Air Force Materiel Command called ...
Quantum signs for 26 electric airplanes from Bye Aerospace
Aug 22, 2019 (SPX)
George E. Bye, CEO of Bye Aerospace, welcomed Los Angeles-based Quantum Air to the growing list of Bye Aerospace customers. "One of Quantum Air's goals is to di...
Boeing awarded $999M contract for A-10 Warthog wing replacements
Aug 22, 2019 (UPI)
Boeing received a $999 million, announced by the Department of Defense, for 112 new wing assemblies and up to 15 wing kits to finish upgrades for the rest of th...
Sikorsky nets $48.3M for CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter parts
Aug 21, 2019 (UPI)
The Naval Air Systems Command awarded the company, a division of Lockheed Martin, a $1.3 billion Low Rate Initial Production contract Lots 2 and 3 for 12 aircra...
State Department approves Taiwan's $8B deal for 66 F-16s
Aug 21, 2019 (UPI)
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency on Tuesday published it's official approval of the deal, after a week of speculation at least partially fueled by Taiwan...
Four F/A-18 Super Hornets damaged in E-2D carrier landing incident
Aug 21, 2019 (UPI)
The incident occurred on Aug. 9 in the Arabian Sea aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. The E-2D, a propeller-driven early warning surveillance plane known as the Ha...
F-35s to get warfare system upgrades, laser shock peening to strengthen aircraft
Aug 21, 2019 (UPI)
The company's Information and Electronic Systems division in Nashua, N.H., will modernize the planes' AN/ASQ-239 Electronic Warfare/Countermeasures systems. The...
Lockheed Martin wins two contracts for F-35 upgrades
Aug 20, 2019 (UPI)
Each contract, a modification to an existing contract, was announced on Monday and pertains to kits and special tooling for modification and retrofit of the pla...
U.S. B-1 Lancers, B-2 stealth bombers conduct missions in Indo-Pacific
Aug 18, 2019 (UPI)
Pacific Air Force conducted the Bomber Task Force operations, which started on Monday, to show the United States' commitment to allies and partners in the regio...
Cathay Pacific's torrid week ends with shock CEO resignation
Aug 16, 2019 (AFP)
The 72-year-old airline has been left reeling after it became ensnared in the hardening of rhetoric from the communist mainland over ten weeks of anti-governmen...
Rockwell Collins tapped for E-2D Hawkeye trainer systems
Aug 15, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, covers one E-2D Hawkeye Integrated Training System III Weapons Systems Trainer and one Aircrew P...
Russian combat pilots to wear upgraded tactical vests after Syrian campaign experience
Aug 14, 2019 (Sputnik)
"In light the Syrian events, again, as in the days of Afghanistan [Soviet-era campaign in Afghanistan in 1979-1989], the modernization of the tactical vest for ...
Airport beatings spark soul-searching over Hong Kong's radicals
Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)
Debate has appeared on web forums used by protesters -- and one group even issued an apology -- after Tuesday night's chaotic scenes in which paranoia about und...
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