The U.K. Royal Air Force has tested Finmeccanica’s BriteCloud miniaturized expendable active decoy in formal tests against a range of threat emitters during exercises in the U.S.
Industry is being asked for recommendations on how to demonstrate the U.S. Air Force’s Loyal Wingman concept for manned/unmanned teaming of fighters, and which aircraft to use for tests.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $70m contract and RAYTHEON has $60m contract to continue radar risk-reduction efforts for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System Recapitalization (JSTARS Recap) program. Work complete by Sept. 30, 2017. U.K. DEFENSE MINISTRY committed £372m ($535m) across four contracts (recipients incl. BAE SYSTEMS, ROLLS-ROYCE) for continued in-service support of Hawk trainers. TEXTRON AIRLAND’s Scorpion Jet made its show debut this week at the FIDAE International Air and Space Fair. First production aircraft expected to fly this summer.
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $1.5 billion U.S. Air Force contract modification for C-130J multi-year production aircraft, supporting 14 C-130Js, five HC-130Js, one MC-130J and seven MC-130J aircraft. Work will be performed at Marietta, Georgia, and is expected to be complete by July 31, 2019.
Lockheed Martin expects a green light from the country’s Defense Program Execution Committee later this year, which would result in requests for proposals and information during 2017.
Israel’s Rafael is finalizing an upgrade for the Colombian air force’s UH-60L Black Hawks that will allow them to fire the family of Spike air-to-ground missiles.
Britain may look at sending aircraft to the multi-national Cruzex exercise in Brazil, Air Marshal Greg Bagwell, deputy commander of operations, told journalists at the Fidae air show here March 30.
Russia’s Progress 61 resupply capsule departed the International Space Station early March 30, clearing the aft docking port of the Zvezda service module for the arrival of the Progress 63 freighter later this week.
A biofuels pilot plant to be built in Queensland by Australia’s Southern Oil Refining will supply fuels for the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy and could lead to a commercial-scale production facility that would also produce aviation biofuels for airlines.
Bulgaria’s government has approved a plan to replace its armed forces’ Soviet-era equipment with modern combat aircraft and new multipurpose patrol boats.
An independent analysis of the latest UAV sighting reports released by the FAA concludes just more than one-third of incidents involved close encounters, and one-third of those involved multi-engine jet aircraft.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been unable to assess the condition of its Hitomi X-ray astronomy satellite, despite briefly receiving signals from one of five pieces into which the spacecraft has broken after an apparent onboard failure of some kind.
China is likely to begin fixed-wing naval operations in the Indian Ocean once it commissions its second aircraft carrier, currently under construction at Dalian, according to a Japanese research report on Chinese military power.
After a long wait, astronauts are prepared to share real estate aboard the International Space Station with a rugged fabric habitation module, a commercial prototype for the kind of enclosure that can be greatly compressed to a low launch volume.
South Korea is launching a technology demonstrator program for an unmanned strike aircraft, aiming to build a full-scale mockup for assessment of radar cross section while flying eight subscale aircraft to prove tailless flight control.
The U.S. Navy relieved Cmdr. Michael L. Atwell as the commanding officer aboard the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 3 USS Fort Worth earlier this month due to events surrounding an engineering problem that occurred in January, the service says.
U.S. investor-owned electric utilities have teamed with a Finnish UAV operator to develop industry standards for beyond-line-of-sight flights to inspect power lines and other infrastructure.
