Canada’s multinational training business, CAE, announced this month that it is spending just over a billion dollars on buying the military training arm of L3Harris at a multiple of 13.5 - It has been described as a mega deal for the training industry.
Hardly six years after its first flight, India’s home-made basic trainer aircraft HTT-40 is set to become the mainstay of basic training of rookie pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF).
Fast jet trainers – especially those that have the potential to carry out the hybrid role as a light attack aircraft – are drawing the attention of the defence OEMs and the air forces in the emerging markets.
Flight operations have largely normalised over Saudi Arabian airspace and at airports in the kingdom earlier today. Yesterday, the Saudi-led coalition (SLC) said it had shot down six Yemeni Houthi rebel drones targeting unspecified areas of Saudi Arabia according to reports from Osprey.
A delegation from Bahrain travelled to Amarillo in the US to mark the start of production of 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters being built for the gulf kingdom
Pakistan hosted a two-week long multinational air exercise- ACES Meet 2021-1 with the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) and the United States Air Force (USAF).
A lack of effective F-16 virtual maintenance training simulators has led to a Turkish manufacturer developing their own – much to the delight of the country’s Air Command.
As NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission speeds back to Earth to drop off materials gathered from the surface of Bennu, scientists have used data gathered during 30 months of close-up reconnaissance to determine the 500-meter-wide (1,640-ft.) object poses an extremely small impact threat to Earth.
The Cygnus, named for the late NASA astronaut Ellison Onizuka, carries 8,210 lb. of crew supplies, ISS equipment, science experiments and technology demonstrations.
South African based defence solutions provider, Denel, yesterday announced a series of far reaching steps it intends to take to ensure the company's sustainability.
Airbus has said the partnership’s Bridge Tanker proposal will be based on the Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT), but comments from a Skunk Works executive suggest advanced upgrades could be added for the U.S. version of the international best-seller.
As part of longer-term KC-46A upgrade plans aimed at current aircraft as well as the U.S. Air Force’s upcoming Bridge Tanker requirement, Boeing has flown two test aircraft to demonstrate tracking technology for future autonomous air-to-air refueling (A3R) capability.
