The winning engine will replace GE’s T700 in the Army’s Sikorsky UH-60M/V Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64E Apache, and also could power the next generation of clean-sheet military rotorcraft in the lightweight category of Future Vertical Lift.
For the first quarter of 2018 Boeing reported several better-than-expected results—revenue beat by 5.1% compared with Wall Street’s consensus expectations.
Bell expects the V-280 Valor to meet all the key performance parameters set by the U.S. Army under the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator initiative “by the end of summer.”
A militarized derivative of the Glasair Aviation Sportsman monoplane, the Huntsman is being actively marketed for “gray zone” operations in places like Central Africa where there are few or no U.S. forward operating bases.
Up for grabs is a potential 90-aircraft order replacing on a one-for-one basis Germany’s Tornado IDS strike aircraft, and the smaller ECR electronic warfare version of the jet.
Boeing has teamed with ten German companies who will provide training, support and sustainment if the Chinook wins Germany’s STH heavy-lift helicopter competition.
The House Armed Services tactical air and land subcommittee’s markup of the defense policy bill, released April 25, would require the Navy to make several hardware modifications to the F/A-18s to reduce the occurrence of, and mitigate the risk posed by, hypoxia-like physiological episodes.
Launch service operator Arianespace has postponed the next launch of the Ariane 5, after satellite owner Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) decided to ship its spacecraft back to Bangalore.
Included in the offer to Germany, according to Eurofighter officials, is the integration of additional weaponry and capability building on the Typhoon's Phased Enhancement program.
On Tuesday morning Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson and Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein testify on service posture before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Vectrus Systems Corp., Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a $15,800,659 firm-fixed-price modification (A00027) to previously awarded contract FA3002-17-C-0001.
Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon have not yet figured out to get past an issue that spurred a suspension of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter deliveries, but the prime contractor’s chief executive said April 24 she is confident they will soon.
The U.S. Air Force has elevated its safety investigation into unexplained physiological episodes on the service’s T-6 Texan II trainer fleet, appointed a two-star general to lead the effort.
The U.S. Air Force is seeking information on the modernization of the high-altitude drone, and has floated the possibility of additional production orders, “assuming the necessary direction/authorization is provided.”
