Aircraft & Propulsion

BAE, Boeing and Lockheed Martin (supported by Northrop Grumman) are offering to work as MHI’s partner.

Sikorsky is extending work with DARPA and the U.S. Army on its Matrix autonomy system to encompass collaboration between multiple UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters operating in a contested environment.

The selected teams—Boeing, EpiSci, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Heron Systems and physicsAI—will build on the results of the AlphaDogfight Trials won by Heron Systems in August.

Airbus and Eurofighter have signed contracts to deliver 38 Tranche 4-model Eurofighters to the German Air Force in the first follow-on order for the aircraft for one of the partner nations.

The Croatian government says it has begun evaluating the offers for its future combat aircraft after receiving best and final bids.

NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance Force has taken delivery of its fifth Northrop Grumman RQ-4D Global Hawk unmanned air system, completing the fleet.

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) suggests to heavily upgrading the Surion for a program that could greatly enlarge the South Korean army’s utility helicopter fleet

Germany is the first Eurofighter partner nation to top up its orders; Spain will follow in 2021.

A Japanese minister charged with improving efficiency will hold a public review of the F-X program for a new Japanese fighter on Nov. 14.

Research is clearly aimed at taking an advanced digital antenna technology from ground applications to F-X and Tempest.

Boeing will train Qatari pilots for the country’s new F-15QA Eagle fighter fleet at a site near its St. Louis production line, the company has confirmed.

Research and test company Calspan Systems will build and evaluate wind tunnel models of the Talon-A reusable hypersonic flying testbed now in development by Stratolaunch Systems for deployment from its large carrier aircraft.

Nigeria has declared itself as the latest customer for China’s Wing Loong II armed unmanned air system.

New testing shows that a 20-year-old concept can double the radiated power of future airborne early warning radars.

UK, U.S. F-35 commanders claim “seamless” integration in joint exercises on new British carrier.

Russian Helicopters has delivered the first two kits for manufacturing Mil Mi-8AMT heavy transport helicopters to Kazakhstan, which will host the first foreign assembly line of the Russian rotorcraft.

The U.S. Air Force’s 23rd Wing and 347th Rescue Group has received the first two HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopters at Moody AFB in Georgia.

The new U.S. Air Force chief of staff is finding out how difficult it will be shed older aircraft and make way for a modernized fleet

MQ-9Bs for Taiwan?; Collins’ $700 million ejection seat win; New carrier delivery strategy; and Air Force opens space structures lab.

The modernized Tupolev Tu-160M strategic bomber made its first flight with new NK-32 series 2 engines on Nov. 3, Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. reported.

The French Air Force has declared the new Talios targeting pod operational on its Dassault Rafales equipped with the F3R upgrade.

After 15 years of development, Karem’s Optimum Speed Tilt Rotor shows its potential on the test stand.

Seven years after the demise of the X-51 program, the Pentagon puts Boeing back in the running for hypersonic cruise missile programs.

BAE Systems, Boeing and Lockheed Martin have formally expressed interest in supporting Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in the development of Japan’s F-X fighter.

Belgian Air Force officials have been flight testing Diamond’s DART-550 turboprop trainer as a potential replacement for its fleet of SIAI-Marchetti SF-260 aircraft.