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Twelve countries have committed to orders of the F-35 joint strike fighter either as formal partner nations or through foreign military sales. As production of the fifth-generation systems ramp up, [...]

Byline: Craig Hoyle Airbus Defence & Space has received a contract to build a Tranche 4 batch of 38 Eurofighters for the German air force. Airbus Defence & Space has [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The US Department of Defense has announced Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. has been awarded a USD contract modification valued at USD 20,480,000 [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The US Navy has awarded L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) a USD 104 million follow-on contract to supply the next production lot of the electronic warfare (EW) [...]

The world's air forces deploy a variety of Air-to-Air Missiles (AAM). This article profiles some of the leading European, Israeli and North American efforts for prosecuting within visual range and [...]

Byline: Garrett Reim After suffering delays, including problems caused by the coronavirus, the US Department of Defense (DoD) believes the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II will be ready for a [...]

Byline: Craig Hoyle Typhoon's long-term evolution options include cockpit, connectivity modifications and even thrust-vectoring control The Eurofighter industry consortium remains on course to deliver a broad-ranging 'menu' of capability options [...]

Byline: Craig Hoyle The Eurofighter industry consortium remains on course to deliver a broad-ranging 'menu' of capability options to its core partner nations before year-end to inform their decisions on [...]

Byline: Craig Hoyle A joint UK-Qatar Eurofighter Typhoon unit has conducted its first flights, with 12 Sqn employing Royal Air Force-owned assets. A joint UK-Qatar Eurofighter Typhoon unit has conducted [...]

Byline: CRAIG HOYLE Berlin has approved a contract for sensor house Hensoldt to complete development, production and integration work on an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for its air [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Lockheed Martin Corp., a Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., has announced it has been awarded a USD 18,670,070 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the procurement of maintenance and [...]

Byline: GARRETT REIM Service drops sole-source supplier plan for enhanced F-15EX, opening door to competition The US Air Force (USAF) is asking for proposals to power its planned Boeing F-15EX, [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS NATO has announced troops from its Forward Presence battlegroup in Lithuania are training with British and Spanish pilots from the Alliance's Baltic Air Policing mission [...]

For seasoned observers of the Joint Strike Fighter programme, the revelation that Lockheed Martin's Block 4 modernisation effort for the F-35 is already running two years late and $1.5 billion [...]

Kopin Corp. reported it has received an approximately $2.7 million follow-on order of its high-brightness liquid crystal display for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. According to a media release, [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The US Navy has announced that it has awarded a USD 112m modification contract on behalf of itself and Australia to exercise options for procurement [...]

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $129.19M modification to a firm-fixed-price delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement. This modification procures the kits required for modification and retrofit activities [...]

Kopin announced it has received an approximately $2.7M follow-on order of its high-brightness liquid crystal display for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. With the F-35 scheduled for production through [...]

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $202.8M cost-plus-incentive-fee, undefinitized contract that provides engineering, maintenance, logistics manpower and material support to continue to develop, sustain and produce software builds as well as [...]

General Electric was awarded a $215M modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 48 F414-GE-400 install engines and engine devices for the Navy Super Hornet F/A-18 [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2020 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Pratt & Whitney has announced it has been awarded a USD 7,681,734 firm-fixed price order against a previously issued ordering agreement for the production and [...]

Byline: DOMINIC PERRY IG Metall says ordering US-built fighter would 'jeopardise' European military aerospace One of Germany's biggest aerospace employee unions has told the country's government that it risks jeopardising [...]

Byline: Dominic Perry One of Germany's biggest aerospace employee unions has warned the country's government that it risks jeopardising the entire European defence industry if it selects a US-built fighter [...]

Byline: Garrett Reim Ankara was booted from the Joint Strike Fighter programme in July 2019 after the country decided to buy the Russian-made Almaz-Antey S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile battery. The [...]

Byline: CRAIG HOYLE MBDA performs second test firing of anti-ship missile ahead of export use aboard Eurofighter platform MBDA has performed a second test firing of its Marte ER anti-ship [...]

Byline: Craig Hoyle MBDA has performed a second test firing of its Marte ER anti-ship missile in support of the long-range weapon's integration with the Eurofighter Typhoon. MBDA has performed [...]

Byline: CRAIG HOYLE Eurofighter Typhoon first candidate to undergo in-country assessment for Finland Finland has launched the latest stage of its HX fighter contest, with a first candidate type now [...]

Air Industries Group recently reported that it has received major new contract awards totaling $18.2 million, and potential follow-on orders for an additional $13.7 million. According to a media release, [...]

Byline: Garrett Reim The F-35 Joint Program Office awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.9 billion contract to sustain and support the worldwide fleet of F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters in 2020. [...]

Air Industries Group recently reported that it has received major new contract awards totaling $18.2 million, and potential follow-on orders for an additional $13.7 million. According to a media release, [...]

Air Industries Group recently reported that it has received major new contract awards totaling $18.2 million, and potential follow-on orders for an additional $13.7 million. According to a media release, [...]

Byline: Craig Hoyle A trio of Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons took part in a flypast of Doha on 18 December, joining Qatari assets involved in national day celebrations. Also [...]

Byline: Christen Mccurdy Washington DC (SPX) Dec 09, 2019, 2019 USS America dropped anchor Friday at its new homeport in Sasebo, Japan. The America, the Navy's newest amphibious assault ship, [...]

Byline: Garrett Reim The UK Royal Air Force intends to use the Eurofighter Typhoon as a 'testbed' for new development methods and technologies that will be employed on the forthcoming [...]

Byline: CRAIG HOYLE Germany appears poised to advance a joint programme with Spain to equip the nations' later-model Eurofighters with active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars, as Berlin also nears [...]

Byline: Garrett Reim Lockheed Martin won a $25 million contract to start engineering and manufacturing work on a new version of its GPS Spatial Temporal Anti-Jam Receiver (GSTAR) which will [...]

Byline: CRAIG HOYLE EuroDASS to develop defensive suite that maintains fighter's air dominance and allows real-time mission data changes The Eurofighter Typhoon's self-protection equipment will be the subject of a [...]

Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria PVSM AVSM VM ADC, Chief of the Air Staff is embarking on an official visit to Oman to witness the ongoing Bilateral Indo-Oman Joint Exercise: [...]

Byline: Craig Hoyle The Eurofighter Typhoon's self-protection equipment will be the subject of a major modernisation effort, with industry partners having launched plans for a so-called Praetorian Evolution, or 'Evo' [...]

Indian Air Force is participating in a Bilateral Joint exercise with Royal Air Force Oman (RAFO), named EX EASTERN BRIDGE-V, scheduled from 17-26 October 2019, at Air Force Base Masirah. [...]

United Technologies was awarded a $325.19M cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price-incentive-firm contract to provide material and support equipment for depot maintenance facilities, non-recurring sustainment activities, supplies, services and planning for depot activations as [...]

Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp., today announced that it has been awarded a production contract for the 12th and 13th lots of F135 propulsion systems, powering [...]

Byline: GREG WALDRON A Belgian air force and humanitarian sector veteran with more than 30 years of experience, Philippe Martou now leads the UN World Food Programme's effort to reach [...]

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $352.67M modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. This modification increases the ceiling and scope of the contract to include the procurement of [...]

Byline: munitions MBDA and Leonardo have been contracted to test an electronic-attack development of the former's Spear air-to-surface missile for the UK Ministry of Defence. To be advanced via a [...]

Byline: Craig Hoyle MBDA and Leonardo have been contracted to test an electronic-attack development of the former's Spear air-to-surface missile for the UK Ministry of Defence. MBDA and Leonardo have [...]

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $266.20M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract special tooling and special test equipment in support of F-35 Lightning II aircraft for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and [...]

Byline: Greg Waldron Canada's options for a new fighter have narrowed to three, with the formal withdrawal of the Eurofighter Typhoon from the competition. Canada's options for a new fighter [...]

Byline: missile BrahMos Aerospace may conduct a second air-launched test of its Mach 2.8 cruise missile as soon as November. While the Indian/Russian-developed weapon has already met New Delhi's requirements, [...]

Byline: requirementMIKE RAJKUMAR BENGALURU Jaguar's short-range missile could be integrated with additional types following MBDA campaign success in New Delhi MBDA's ASRAAM appears set for integration on several Indian combat [...]