Alsalam Aircraft Company has been awarded a new contract - for a second time - to provide C-130 technical support services to the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF).
The first Airbus Military A330 MRTT for the United Arab Emirates Air Force has successfully completed its maiden flight following conversion of the aircraft in Madrid.
The world's defence sector must act now to preserve its innovation, specialist skill-set and research and development work, according to a new report out today.
History was made in Afghanistan this week when on Wednesday a team of all-female flight crew took to the skies to provide close air support for coalition and Afghan ground forces, marking the first combat mission flown from Bagram to be planned, maintained and flown entirely by women.
The first Iraqi air force instructor pilot to graduate from the 52nd Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron at Tirkrit Air Base, Iraq, Lt. Col. Hamid Hussein, has flown his first official training mission with an Iraqi student pilot in a Hawker Beechcraft T-6.
Qatari Air Force pilots are now operating alongside the French forces in sorties over Libya as part of the United Nations enforced No Fly Zone while the UAE is set to join operations today or tomorrow.
Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI) - a major international F-35 Lightning II supplier to Northrop Grumman Corporation - has delivered its first production air inlet duct for the jet.
Turkey has announced that it is putting the planned purchase of 100 F-35 fighter jets from the US on hold because the Pentagon is not sharing the source code used in the software designed for the aircraft or codes that might be used externally to activate the planes.
Tactical Communications Group (TCG) - a provider of tactical data link (TDL) software solutions for military test, training, simulation and operational applications - has announced its successful deployment of TCG's Ground Support System (GSS) to the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF).
BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate exclusively on the preparation and submission of a joint proposal to the UK and French Ministries of Defence for the design, development, production and support of a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).
Forecast International has suggested that some Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries may be susceptible to “over-buying for a certain kind of threat that is not readily apparent,” referring to Iran in its latest report on Middle East military spending.
Airbus Military has successfully completed the number of required simulated flight-cycles on a full scale test airframe to achieve civil type certification of the A400M by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
The joint venture between the UAE's C4 Advanced Solutions and EADS has won a contract worth more than $550 million for the first stage of the UAE's command and control systems (ECCS).
General Atomics (GA-ASI) and the UAE's International Golden Group (IGG)are working together to supply the Predator XP unmanned system to meet the surveillance needs of the UAE Government.
The UAE could be close to signing a multi-billion contract with Raytheon to supply Theatre High Altitude Air Defence (THAAD) according to Dubai-based newspaper Gulf News
A two-year contract to provide rotary wing and fixed wing training to Afghanistan's pilots has been signed between the US Government and Raytheon according to Kevin W. Massengill, Raytheon Vice President and the regional executive for the Middle East and North Africa speaking at the IDEX show today.
The first of three A330 multi role tanker and transport (MRTT) aircraft will be delivered to the UAE by the end of this year, according to Didier Vernet, Head of Market Development for Airbus Military speaking at the IDEX defence show in Abu Dhabi today
UAV manufacturer Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems Investments (ADASI)has signed a cooperative agreement with America's iRobot it was revealed at IDEX today
SELEX Galileo's PicoSAR radar has been demonstrated on a number of fixed and rotary wing platforms, manned and unmanned, in the Middle East as well as Europe and the US and today the Finmeccanica Company, announced a new contract to an undisclosed “non NATO” customer
The Eurofighter Typhoon is continuing to have its credentials placed in the forefront of the region's defence procurement staff through its extensive participation at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) which opened at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) this morning.
