Boeing has signed a deal with Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) for KAI to design, develop and manufacture the Conformal Weapons Bay (CWB) for the F-15 Silent Eagle.
The UAE has announced that it will take delivery of 60 BlackHawk utility helicopters, with a direct order from Sikorsky for 20 UH-60L BlackHawks worth $300 million.
At the Air Power Middle East conference held in Doha yesterday, Craig Penrice, Typhoon Test Pilot for BAE Systems and Eurofighter, gave a presentation on the future capability requirements for a fighter aircraft.
The role of air forces in the Middle East is evolving as global demand increases for joint missions to provide humanitarian disaster relief, intensified peacekeeping efforts, and broadened border security and surveillance operations, a Boeing Company executive told the 2010 Air Power Conference in Doha yesterday.
The role of air forces in the Middle East is evolving as global demand increases for joint missions to provide humanitarian disaster relief, intensified peacekeeping efforts, and broadened border security and surveillance operations, a Boeing Company executive told the 2010 Air Power Conference in Doha yesterday
Sikorsky Aerospace Services today announced an order for two upgraded S-61 utility helicopters for use in Afghanistan to support drug interdiction efforts.
Reuters reported that yesterday the US Defense Department notified Congress that it wants to sell Saudi Arabia up to $60bn worth of aircraft and weapons.
By Jahangir Arasli, Non-Resident Scholar, INEGMA A firing test of a new Sijjil-2 missile on May 20, 2009, that featured an increased 2,400 km range and solid propellant engine, has marked the next dangerous stage of the ambitious ballistic missile (BM) program of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). The purpose of this short report is to provide a brief analysis of different aspects of the program, establish a potential logical link between it and the nuclear program, developed by the IRI, and to offer possible explanations of the motivations behind the Iranian quest for what one may call a hybrid BM – WMD capabilities, with some potential scenarios of its application and implications. This essay represents the personal views of the author and not of INEGMA or other institutions.
United Press International (UPI) has reported that Iraq is moving forward with plans to buy 24 Hawk jet training aircraft from BAE Systems of Britain, a deal worth up to $1.6bn, as it gradually rebuilds its air force amid the US military withdrawal.
Matar Ali Al Romaithi, Director of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Offset Programme Bureau (OPB), today outlined the implications of the new UAE Offset Programme for international defence contractors.
The U.S. State Department has ordered 11 additional upgraded S-61 utility helicopters for use in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sikorsky Aerospace Services announced today.
Light helicopters could become a new platform for military forces in North Africa if tests being carried out by Europcopter and a South African systems integrator are successful.
The US Congress is about to consider giving the go-ahead to the biggest arms deal in US history when it will be asked to sign off a weapons sales agreement to Saudi Arabia worth an estimated $60bn – a deal which is set to worry Israel and cause outrage in Iran.
US President Barack Obama's administration is ready to notify Congress of plans to offer advanced aircraft to Saudi Arabia - as part of the biggest ever US arms deal - worth up to US$60bn, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Boeing is "actively" looking at potential acquisition opportunities in response to a changing security environment and will not rule out a merger with another large defense contractor, Boeing's head of defense said yesterday.
Boeing's Military Aircraft (BMA) business is about to undergo a major reorganisation, including consolidating the organization from six divisions to four. The realignment of the organization will take effect on Oct. 1.
(By David Willet, Tehran) Iran celebrated what it called “defence industry day” today and unveiled its first long-range bomber drone, a weapon the country's president described as an “ambassador of death.”
The close links between the UK's aerospace industry and the Middle East are nowhere more apparent than through BAE Systems. Jon Lake takes a look at the ties with the defence manufacturer.
The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) or Al Quwwat Al Jawwiya Il Misriya, is one of the largest air arms in the region and is also one of the longest established. Formed in 1930 as the Egyptian Army Air Force, it became fully independent in 1937.
A Royal Moroccan Air Force Alpha Jet has been withdrawn from its training role and is being used to pioneer a new task for the Franco-German trainer – cloud-seeding.
