Defense

Boeing and industry supplier Havelsan announced today they have completed installation of Mission Simulator and Mission Support Center hardware for Turkey's Peace Eagle Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) program.
Defense

Advanced Electronics Company (AEC)of Saudi Arabia and US firm Rockwell Collins today agreed to co-develop and market products and solutions to customers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and throughout the Middle East.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

SELEX Communications,part of the Finnmeccanica Group,and Sirio Panel - has been awarded two contracts worth a total of 5.6 millions Euro by Pilatus Aircraft for the supply of communication and identification avionic systems and of cockpit panels
Defense

Saudi Arabia could be in the market for the submarine-buster, the Boeing P-8 Poseidon. We look at what the Kingdom could get for its money.
Defense

Boeing chose to launch its new AH-6i at Dubai, predicting a market for some 300 of these helicopters, many of them in the Middle East.
Defense

The UAE defence force has selected its airborne early warning system. Jon Lake explains why this is an interim solutions.
Defense

What happens when top-class pilots and air crew from various nations meet up? Stefan DeGraef and Edwin Borremans joined the multinational F-16 large force deployment exercise in Jordan to find out.
Defense

At Dubai, Eurofighter GmbH CEO Enzo Casolini predicted a global market for 800 advanced fighters in the next 20 years and was optimistic that his company would win a significant proportion of the orders. Peter Anstiss, business development director at BAE Systems, spoke to Arabian Aerospace about selling Typhoon into the region.
Defense

Technology from Goodrich Corporation's ISR Systems business was demonstrated by the British Army to interested spectators at the Bahrain International Airshow. The demonstration showed Goodrich's intelligence exploitation system as well as its new stabilized camera gimbal integrated onto a developmental vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Defense

It's loud. It's impressive. Photographer Ian Billinghurst captures the moment that the US Navy F-18 booms into the show on a low but high speed pass along the flightline. He captures the F-18F Super Hornet right at the speed of sound. The adiabatic expansion cools the air just enough to condense the water in the air.
Aerospace

Turkish and Israeli military leaders are trying to salvage an alliance severely damaged as Ankara realigns its position in the Middle East according to the Wall Street Journal.
Defense

Under the Patronage of the UAE Ministry of Defense, the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA) held the Middle East Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (MEISR) conference at the Armed Forces Officers Club, Abu Dhabi, UAE today.
Defense

Helicopter Support Inc. (HSI) today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Goodrich Corporation to collaboratively promote an advanced aircraft maintenance solution to the worldwide rotary aircraft market which will give Black Hawk operators across the Middle East a new support system.
Defense

Boeing has announced organisation and leadership changes within its Integrated Defense Systems unit that affect the Middle East. The realignment is effective immediately, and the unit will begin operating under a new name: Boeing Defense, Space & Security.
Defense

Boeing and the UAE Air Force and Air Defence today announced that the UAE has signed a contract for the acquisition of six Boeing C-17 Globemaster III advanced airlifters. The UAE, which announced in 2009 that it would modernize its airlift capabilities with the C-17, is the second Middle East nation to order the airlifter.
Defense

As predicted in Arabian Aerospace last month, Lockheed Martin has secured a key order from Egypt for 20 F-16 Block 50/52s which are likey to secure production until at least 2013.
Defense

Airbus has signaled that it might abandon the delayed €20bn A400M military transport project. The news comes after German newspapers reported that Airbus has drawn up contingency plans to scrap the A400M after months of inconclusive talks with seven European NATO buyers.
Defense

Details are emerging of the programme for the fifth edition of the highly acclaimed Middle East Special Operations Commanders Conference (MESOC), which kickstarts the Special Operations Forces Exhibition 2010 (SOFEX-2010) being held in Amman, Jordan, May 10-13.
Maintenance & Training

The Middle East Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance conference – MEISR 2010 organised by The Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA) will take place on the January 11th 2010 at the Armed Forces Officers Club, Abu Dhabi.
Aerospace

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has concluded contracts with BAE Systems to support the EJ200 engines powering the Typhoon fleet of the Royal Saudi Air Force.
Defense

Lockheed Martin is close to signing a contract with Egypt to buy a seventh batch of F-16s although the company confirms that several Middle Eastern forces have expressed interest in fifth generation capabilities.
Defense

The first Airbus Military A400M military airlifter has landed back in Seville, Spain today at 14:02 local time (13:02 UTC) after completing a successful maiden flight lasting 3h 47min following its take-off at 10:15 local time.
Defense

Russian Helicopters and Iran-based Fanavaran Aseman Giti have signed an agreement to promote Russian rotorcraft in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Business Aviation

Bahrain Defence force is today celebrating the formal delivery of the first of nine UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters from Sikorsky - . marking the beginning of the first squadron of Black Hawks operated by an international military organisation.
Defense

Titan Airways of the UK has leased a BAe 146-300 from BAE Systems to fulfil an urgent UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) contract in the Middle East.
Business Aviation