Defence Notes
PREMIUM: Space Force sticks with Rocket Lab despite curse of unlucky 13
Space payloads usually cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and their loss can be a huge setback for their operators. Launcher reliability is ...
Air Warfare
PREMIUM: Final captive-carry test heralds next chapter for ARRW
US efforts to rapidly develop and field hypersonic weapons within the next three years took a step forward on 8 August, with a final captive-carry ...
Land Warfare
PREMIUM: US donates 200 M1117 ASVs to Colombian Army
The US has approved the donation of 200 units of the M1117 Guardian Armoured Security Vehicle (ASV) to the Colombian Army under the Excess Defence ...
Naval Warfare
PREMIUM: Latest improved Kilo-class boat poised for comprehensive tests
The second Project 636.3 Varshavyanka (Improved Kilo-II class) diesel-electric attack submarine for the Russian Pacific Fleet is set to begin a comprehensive series of tests. According ...
Defence Notes
PODCAST: Global IFV market forecast, Link 16 for dismounted forces and Asia-Pacific round-up
Welcome to Episode 31 of the second series of The Weekly Defence Podcast. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. Sign up to an early email alert ...
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Air Warfare
PREMIUM: Japan researches future fighter technologies
Japan has not produced fighters since 2011, when the last F-2 was delivered. Therefore, Japanese companies such as Sumitomo Electric that produced radar domes and ...
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Defence Notes
Lufthansa Systems solution for Germanwings flight ops documentation
7th May 2009
Germanwings has opted for the Lufthansa Systems IT solutions EFOM (Electronic Flight Operations Manuals) and DocSurf to enable it to access current electronic operations documentation ...
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Defence Notes
easyJet year-on-year passenger numbers up 6.3% in April
7th May 2009
easyJet has reported a 6.3% increase in the number of passengers carried in April 2009 compared with April last year. The respective numbers were 3,776,582 ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Quad-A 2009: US developing SUAV chemical / biological sensor payloads
7th May 2009
Under the auspices of the US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) Small UAV Laboratory (SUAV Lab), government researchers are developing new chemical and ...
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Defence Notes
April traffic figures released by JetBlue
7th May 2009
JetBlue Airways has reported that its traffic in April decreased by 2.7% from April 2008, on a capacity decrease of 4.0%. The traffic in revenue ...
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Defence Helicopter
Plans to consolidate JHC bases abandoned
7th May 2009
A Ministry of Defence study into the consolidatation of Joint Helicopter Command bases has been cancelled. The cancellation of the £2 million study, dubbed Project ...
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Defence Notes
Southwest Airlines reports April traffic figures
7th May 2009
Southwest Airlines flew 6,517,856,000 revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in April 2009, a 4.1% increase from the 6,261,385,000 RPMs flown in April 2008. Available seat miles ...
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Defence Helicopter
Curtiss-Wright Controls Awarded Development Contract from Sikorsky for CH-53K Helicopter
7th May 2009
Curtiss-Wright Controls the motion controls segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, has been awarded a contract by Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation to develop and supply the data concentrator ...
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Defence Notes
Three new routes for airBaltic
7th May 2009
Latvian airline airBaltic has three new destinations for the summer season in 2009 – Geneva (Switzerland), Turku (Finland), and Kaunas (Lithuania). The destinations will be ...
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Defence Notes
ExpressJet reports loss for first quarter 2009
7th May 2009
ExpressJet Holdings has reported a first quarter loss, excluding special items, of $10.6 million compared with a $22.8 million loss for the same period in ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
L-3 to Develop Unmanned Aerial System Technology for US Air Force
7th May 2009
L-3 Geneva Aerospace announced today that it was one of multiple awardees on the United States Air Force Small Unmanned Aerial System (SUAS) Research and ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Learning to fly the Heron
7th May 2009
The chance to fly a CU-170 Heron unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in Afghanistan was what prompted Captain Ken Jones, a pilot and Reservist with 408 ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Global Hawk Flying Mapping Missions South of Border
7th May 2009
The RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft is currently using its sensors for non-military environmental mapping missions over South, Central America and the Caribbean at the ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Mantis maiden flight this month
7th May 2009
BAE Systems is to fly its Mantis UAV later this month. The news was revealed by MD of Military Air Solutions at BAE Systems, Kevin ...
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Defence Helicopter
Columbia Helicopters' Successes Leads to Work for Nevada Army National Guard
7th May 2009
If you want to do something right, you need to go to the experts in that field. That's why Bravo Company, 1/189th of the Nevada ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Test Proves Raytheon KillerBee Unmanned Aircraft System Can Be Recovered At Sea
7th May 2009
Raytheon Company's KillerBee unmanned aircraft system demonstrated it can be recovered from a net on a moving platform, simulating an at-sea recovery. The KillerBee UAS ...
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Rotorhub
Sikorsky Global Helicopters Delivers S-300CBi Helicopter to Tomlinson Aviation
7th May 2009
Sikorsky Global Helicopters, a Sikorsky company, recently delivered an S-300CBi helicopter to Tomlinson Aviation of Ormond Beach, Fla. Tomlinson Aviation has been operating S-300 series ...
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Defence Notes
China approves STG?s WEPPS emergency lighting power system for 737NGs
7th May 2009
A VSTC (Validation of Supplemental Type Certificate) has been granted by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) for the use on Boeing 737NGs of STG ...
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Defence Notes
American Eagle and Executive Airlines April traffic announced
6th May 2009
American Eagle Airlines has reported April 2009 traffic figures for itself and its wholly-owned subsidiary Executive Airlines. American Eagle's revenue passenger miles (RPMs) for the ...
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Defence Notes
Allegiant Air's April 2009 load factor exceeds 90%
6th May 2009
Allegiant Air has reported its preliminary passenger traffic results for April 2009, featuring a load factor of more than 90%. Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) totalled ...
