The Bell-Boeing consortium that builds the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor has withdrawn from the competition to meet Canada’s Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) requirements before a request for proposals (RFP) was issued, partly because of the way the program was due to be funded.
U.S. Navy Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 135 recently participated in the annual two-week multilateral Cope North 2015 training exercise at Andersen AFB, Guam.
The U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (Navfac Exwc) completed tests on a prototype reverse osmosis (RO) system for the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) in February, service officials report.
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is in "excellent condition" and on track to be captured into orbit on schedule by the dwarf planet Ceres in the early hours of March 6, says mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Astronauts just completed a successful eight-day, three-spacewalk campaign to install communications antennas and extend utility cables to two future docking ports.
BAE Systems is targeting Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter operators as initial customers after receiving U.S. government approval to export its laser missile jammer, the ALQ-212 Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures (Atircm) system.
The Swedish air force will prepare a requirement for an air-launched land-attack cruise missile “in the next few months,” chief of staff Maj. Gen. Micael Byden tells Aviation Week.
“In the face of budgetary uncertainty, cutting ships is the most damaging and less reversible course of action, which is why I am committed to preserving shipbuilding,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says.
China, the Asia-Pacific region and the entire global security network would be better served if China would support Taiwan’s efforts to participate in security, military and other international exercises and programs, the Center for Strategic and International Studies says.
India will buy 38 PC-7 Mark II basic trainers from Pilatus in addition to the 75 aircraft already purchased from the Swiss airframer to meet the need for 181 Basic Trainer Aircraft for Stage I flying training for the Indian air force.
Using an xenon-ion propulsion system, rather than conventional chemical propellant, the 702SP requires about eight months transit time to reach its final operating position in geosynchronous orbit.
RAYTHEON has $122.4m U.S. Navy contract modification for 114 Tomahawk Block IV All Up Round missiles; deliveries by August 2017. NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $63.7m U.S. Navy contract for long-lead components, material, parts and other work to maintain the MQ-4C Triton UAV planned production schedule. Work expected to be complete in February 2016. KONGSBERG has $73m LOCKHEED MARTIN order for rudders and vertical leading edges for F-35 production lots 9 and 10.
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Just one day after Piaggio Aerospace disclosed the first flight of its HammerHead UAV, the company has confirmed the Italian air force as the system’s launch customer. Italy will purchase six P.1HH HammerHead air vehicles and three ground control stations, Piaggio announced on the final day of the IDEX defense show in Abu Dhabi. The order is a major coup for the HammerHead, which completed the first flight in its final aerodynamic configuration on Dec. 22.
Korean Airlines, with backing from Airbus, has bid to develop South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter, presenting competition to the country’s leading combat aircraft company, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI).
Testifying before the House Science space subcommittee Friday, William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s human spaceflight chief, said he expects those seats will cost about 9% more than the $76 million each the U.S. agency paid most recently.
The prospect of continued combat operations in the Middle East is driving Australia’s contemplated order for armed pilotless aircraft, a move that is backed by one of the country’s leading defense analysts.
With the specter of sequestration and other budget cuts threatening to whittle away again at U.S. Navy’s spending plans across the future years defense program (FYDP), Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, has one overriding request for lawmakers: save the funding for the Ohio-class replacement (ORP) fleet.
