Defense Aircraft & Propulsion
Mar 01, 2021
A cyberattack on a newly acquired manufacturing asset and a foreign policy shift by the new Biden administration combined to overshadow topsized financial results disclosed by aerospace supplier Kaman on Feb. 26.
Feb 26, 2021
Safran is negotiating a new agreement with Germany’s MTU Aero Engines and Spain’s ITP Aero after the latter joined the engine program for the Future Combat Air System.
Feb 26, 2021
U.S. Naval Air Force Atlantic has conducted a demonstration of an unmanned aerial system prototype that is designed to provide long-range cargo transport to vessels at sea.
Feb 26, 2021
The UK Royal Air Force has completed the last operational flight of its Sentinel wide area surveillance radar-reconnaissance aircraft in readiness for the type’s retirement at the end of March.
Feb 26, 2021
The maritime patrol configuration will include a mission suite consisting of a Telephonics RDR-1700B synthetic aperture radar and a Flir Star SAFIRE 380-HD electro-optical/infrared sensor.
Feb 26, 2021
A two-seat Mirage F1B providing adversary air training services to the U.S. Air Force crashed off the end of the flight line at approximately 11:25 am on Feb. 25 at Tyndall AFB, Florida. One of the pilots ejected.
Feb 25, 2021
The selection ends a lengthy competition within Israel between the two U.S. heavy-lift helicopter options.
Feb 25, 2021
The U.S. Air Force is exploring how to declassify information from the service’s new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance strategy and what the military will need from those platforms in 2030, according to the service’s chief of staff.