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 ...
Featured videos
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
AAI Corporation and Aeronautics Defense Systems team to provide Orbiter Unmanned Aircraft
30th September 2008
AAI Corporation, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron company, announced today that the company has entered into a teaming agreement with Aeronautics Defense ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Camcopter S-100 completes extensive German Navy flight trials
30th September 2008
Building on its unrivalled position as a proven VTOL Maritime UAS, the CAMCOPTER S-100 has recently completed its toughest test to date, three weeks of ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
SMD win China Offshore Oil Engineering (COOEC) contract for two ROVs
30th September 2008
SMD have been awarded a contract to supply two 1000m rated work class ROVs to Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd. of China (COOEC). Two 150HP ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Raytheon KillerBee Demonstrates Capabilities in Simulated Combat Environment
30th September 2008
Raytheon Company’s KillerBee unmanned aircraft system demonstrated its interoperability, integration and functionality as an end-to-end UAS combat system. During the demonstration, a Raytheon flight operations ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Perry Slingsby Systems step up the mark to ensure quick turnaround for DOF Subsea
30th September 2008
Perry Slingsby Systems (PSS), the world-leading provider of remote intervention technologies and equipment, has secured a fast-track contract to supply a new generation Triton XLX ...
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Defence Notes
Flybe scoops award for world first Eco-Label scheme
29th September 2008
Flybe, Europe’s largest and most successful regional airline, is delighted to have received the ‘Special Merit for Commitment to the Environment’ award at the influential ...
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Defence Notes
NWA Shareholders Vote in Favor of Merger with Delta Air Lines
29th September 2008
Stockholders at the Northwest Airlines Corporation 2008 Annual Meeting in New York City today overwhelmingly voted in favor of the proposed merger with Delta Air ...
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Rotorhub
American Eurocopter Delivers another EC130 to Sundance Helicopters
29th September 2008
American Eurocopter today announced the delivery of an EC130 to Sundance Helicopters, one of Las Vegas’s largest and most experienced helicopter companies. This is the ...
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Rotorhub
Pasadena Police Purchase a New MD 500E
29th September 2008
MD Helicopters, Inc (MDHI) has announced that the Pasadena Police Department, Pasadena, California, has placed an order for one of the four new MD 500E ...
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Rotorhub
Atlas Helicopters to offer timetabled helicopter flights into London
29th September 2008
Regular visitors to London will know the pain of the daily commute and rue the wasted hours spent sitting in traffic and battling the crowds ...
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Defence Notes
First Airbus final assembly line outside Europe inaugurated in Tianjin, China
28th September 2008
Airbus, today, officially opened its first final assembly line outside of Europe. The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, together with the Party's Secretary of Tianjin, Zhang ...
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Defence Notes
VLM set the record straight on the environmental impact of flying
28th September 2008
VLM Airlines today published a factsheet to dispel the myth that flying within the UK and on short-haul services to Europe is more damaging to ...
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Defence Helicopter
Sikorsky Selects Goodrich Health Management System for USMC CH-53K Heavy Lift Helicopter
26th September 2008
Goodrich Corporation has received a development contract from Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation to equip the CH-53K heavy lift helicopter Sikorsky is developing for the U.S. Marine ...
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Defence Notes
Lufthansa Technik Expands its MRO Network in Europe
26th September 2008
The Lufthansa Technik Group is continuing to expand the capacity of its network of aircraft overhaul facilities in Europe. Before the end of the year, ...
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Defence Notes
?Starling could make $60 million from EMS tie-up,? says parent company
26th September 2008
ELRON Electronic Industries of Israel says that daughter company Starling Advanced Communications stands to earn up to $60 million from the first business arising from ...
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Rotorhub
Devon Air Ambulance launches new EC135 on National Air Ambulance Day
26th September 2008
The Devon Air Ambulance Trust’s new state of the art new generation helicopter, G-DVAA, was launched last Friday (26th September 2008). It was also National ...
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Defence Helicopter
Pakistan files request for $115M refurbishment of AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters
26th September 2008
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Pakistan of AH-1F Cobra helicopter refurbishment as well as associated equipment ...
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Defence Helicopter
Turbomeca expands in the USA with a new site in Monroe, North Carolina
26th September 2008
Turbomeca, the world leader of turbo-shaft engines for helicopters opened a new site in North America – Turbomeca Manufacturing. This is the first production site ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Rolls-Royce Powers Northrop Grumman Global Hawk for New Maritime Surveillance Fleet
26th September 2008
Rolls-Royce today announced that they will be providing AE 3007H engines to power the U.S. Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS). ...
