Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines. Tony has covered avionics, unmanned vehicles, the supply chain and cyberwarfare.
The company faced a €290 million ($316 million) charge on the troubled airlifter, which suffered a crash in early May that significantly affected flight-testing and delivery progress.
Italian aerospace and defense group Finmeccanica is spinning off several of its largest companies and merging two others as part of a radical restructuring.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) and Indian air force (IAF) have hailed a successful a major exercise which saw the deployment of four Sukhoi Su-30MKI “Flankers” to the U.K. to fly with and against the RAF’s Eurofighter Typhoon.
