The first serial-production Anka-S, which will use a satellite communications system rather than line-of-sight for command and control, should be delivered to the Turkish Air Force soon.
Turkish Aerospace Industries is making its presence felt at Le Bourget this year, with a static display of its fixed and rotary-wing products and the international flying display debut of the company’s Hurkus turboprop trainer.
This week the 52nd Paris Air Show gets underway at Le Bourget, drawing an estimated 2,300 international exhibitors, 150,000 trade visitors and nearly 300 official delegations.
Harris Corp., RF Communications, Rochester, New York, has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a $255,000,000 maximum ceiling value.
Leonardo is progressing its plan to turn its M-346 jet trainer into a lightweight multi-role combat jet with the revealing of a new, meaner version of the aircraft here at Paris.
China’s growing influence in unmanned aerial systems is being felt at the Paris Air Show with the Western debut of its Wing Loong 2 medium-altitude, long-endurance armed reconnaissance system.
Seeing progress in its Airbus A400M's capabilities and practically on-time deliveries, the French Air Force has adopted a supportive stance on the program.
With the delivery by Leonardo of the 500th Eurofighter to the Italian air force, production of the multinational combat aircraft is entering its twilight years. Work is now underway to further slow production rates in a bid to be ready for potential future customers.
The U.S. Air Force F-35s at an Arizona Air Force base will be back in the skies starting June 21 after an 11-day pause, although the service has instated a temporary flight restriction following a spate of hypoxia-like cockpit incidents.
Sierra Nevada Corp. has finally emerged from the shadows in its bid for the U.S. Air Force’s $6 billion Joint Stars program, announcing a partnership with Lockheed Martin for the competition.
As China and Russia continue to demonstrate rapid progress in development of hypersonic strike weapons, the U.S.’s largest guided-missile company says technology to counter the threat is already achievable but that fielding a system requires sustained funding and a national sense of urgency.
Lockheed Martin introduced a new variant of the C-130J Super Hercules configured for international military special operations missions, called the C-130J-SOF.
Britain and France have quietly selected Safran’s M88 engine to power the joint unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) demonstrators the two countries plan to fly in 2025, officials close to the program have said.
Piaggio is preparing to restart flight trials of its P.1HH Hammerhead medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system, just over a year since the prototype was lost after crashing in the Mediterranean.
A final tally of exoplanet candidates and confirmations logged during the four-year primary mission of NASA’s Kepler space telescope promises to furnish scientists with data to estimate the number of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
The backlog of export helicopters at Rosoboronexport has reached 106 rotorcraft worth US$4.7 billion, the company’s director general and CEO, Alexander Mikheev, said at the Paris Air Show.
A very small number of geostationary satellites have been ordered so far this year because the industry is devising strategies to meet an upcoming surge in demand for connectivity, Arianespace says.
