Defence Notes
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 ...
Military Logistics
PREMIUM: Damen Shipyards Group says workforce redundancies will not hit naval shipbuilding
Damen Shipyards Group has said that the impending redundancy of more than 1,000 employees from its sites in Romania and the Netherlands will not impact ...
Unmanned Vehicles
PREMIUM: Camcopter zooms in on Australia, as Sea 129 tender process begins
Schiebel Pacific announced on 27 July that it had teamed up with Raytheon Australia for the Australian Army’s Project Land 129 Phase 3 requirement for a new ...
Land Warfare
PREMIUM: Australia lays out Land 159 lethality roadmap
Following an industry brief on 30 July, further details have emerged about Australia’s Land 159 Lethality Systems programme. Prime contractor Nioa released details of the ...
Defence Notes
PODCAST: Air defence in focus and the view from the helm at Lockheed Martin UK
Welcome to Episode 30 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
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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Unmanned Vehicles
RAN embarked UAS plans shift to future frigate and OPV
2nd May 2009
The Royal Australian Navy will continue to explore potential acquisition of embarked maritime unmanned air systems but as part of a proposed new flotilla of ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Australia to proceed with HALE UAS
2nd May 2009
Australia's new defence white paper has given the green light to proceeding with the acquisition of high altitude long endurance unmanned air systems (UAS), but ...
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Defence Notes
Air Arabia Maroc officially launched
2nd May 2009
Air Arabia Maroc has held an official ceremony at Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca to mark the carrier’s official launch. The event was attended by ...
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Defence Notes
Hainan Airlines halves ERJ 145 order
2nd May 2009
Harbin Embraer Aircraft Industry Company (HEAI) has reached an agreement with Hainan Airline Company (HNA) to amend the firm contract that was signed on 31 ...
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Defence Notes
Internal restructuring for Solomon Airlines
1st May 2009
Solomon Airlines has begun a long-awaited company restructuring that will see some positional changes and streamlining of departments with immediate effect. The airline reports that ...
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Defence Notes
Embraer reports $23.4 million loss for 1Q09
1st May 2009
Embraer recorded first quarter 2009 (1Q09) net sales of $1,154.1 million and a net loss of $23.4 million. Owing to the severe worldwide economic downturn ...
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Defence Notes
Sun Country inaugurates MSP?Boston service
1st May 2009
Sun Country Airlines has begun new non-stop service from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St Paul to Boston. The airline will fly during the busy summer ...
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Defence Notes
Air Canada Jazz starts seasonal Toronto?Sydney, Nova Scotia, service
1st May 2009
Air Canada, in the shape of a Bombardier CRJ of Air Canada Jazz, has inaugurated new daily seasonal non-stop service between Toronto and Sydney, Nova Scotia. Air ...
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Defence Notes
ICG offers onboard WiFi, telephone transceiver for any size of aircraft
1st May 2009
International Communications Group (ICG) is extending onboard global telephone and WiFi communication capabilities to any size aircraft by introducing the single channel ICG NxtLink Series ...
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Defence Notes
Panasonic eX2 for Air Austral's 777-300ERs
1st May 2009
Panasonic Avionics reports that Air Austral has installed the eX2 inflight entertainment system on two Boeing 777-300ER aircraft due to enter service this month. The ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Raytheon Purchases Rights to KillerBee Unmanned Aircraft System
1st May 2009
Raytheon Company has purchased rights to the technology and name of the KillerBee unmanned aircraft system from Northrop Grumman. Under the agreement, Raytheon will submit ...
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Rotorhub
Dam Helicopters takes to the sky with the last new BO105 LS
1st May 2009
Duncan Wassick, President and CEO of Dam Helicopters Inc. officially ended the successful BO105 program with the historical delivery of the last new BO105 LS. ...
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Defence Helicopter
Soldiers perform successful parachute jump from the UH-72A Lakota
1st May 2009
The UH-72A Lakota demonstrated its versatility and capabilities as a multi-mission airborne platform on April 8, when five soldiers from Fort Polk, Louisiana became the ...
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Defence Notes
Ryanair's stays at Dusseldorf (Weeze)
1st May 2009
Ryanair has welcomed the issue of a new operating licence at Dusseldorf (Weeze) airport which will allow Ryanair to continue to base aircraft and operate ...
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Defence Notes
bmibaby and British Midland win airport agreement case
1st May 2009
Judgement has been handed down in the Durham Tees Valley Airport (DTVA) -v- bmibaby and bmi case in the High Court. In March 2008, DTVA ...
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Defence Helicopter
Harris successfully complete major test of US Navy MH-60R helicopter Hawklink data link
1st May 2009
Harris Corporation has successfully completed flight and ground testing of its Ku-band Common Data Link (CDL) Hawklink system for the U.S. Navy's MH-60R Light Airborne ...
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Defence Notes
Progress and autoID team for catering logistics project using RFID
1st May 2009
Progress Software Corporation has entered into a partnership with autoID systems to develop and deliver a logistics and catering system for the aviation industry based ...
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Defence Helicopter
L-3 celebrates 200th installation of Northrop Grumman aircraft self-protection system
1st May 2009
L-3 Crestview Aerospace announced today its 200th consecutive on-time, on-budget installation of Northrop Grumman Corporation's self-protection systems aboard U.S. Air Force C-130 and H-53 aircraft. ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Goodrich acquires Cloud Cap Technology
1st May 2009
The Goodrich Corporation has completed the acquisition of Cloud Cap Technology, Inc. CCT will become part of Goodrich's ISR Systems business unit. Cloud Cap will ...
