Air Warfare
First RAF P-8 Poseidon arrives in country
The Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) first P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft has arrived in the UK, the Ministry of Defence announced on 4 February. The ...
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Defence Helicopter
RNLAF receives first upgraded Chinook
Boeing announced on 3 April that it has delivered the first of 20 CH-47F Chinook helicopters to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF). The helicopter ...
Air Warfare
SNC hypersonic engine passes next stage of OpFires programme
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has progressed to the next phase of the Defence Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Operational Fires (OpFires) programme with its Vortex ...
Unmanned Vehicles
UAV Navigation FCS integrated with Sky Power Engines
Spain-based UAV Navigation has teamed up with Germany’s Sky Power to design modernised flight control solutions (FCS). As a result, the FCS used by UAV ...
Unmanned Vehicles
Boeing to deliver more MQ-25 refuelling UAS for USN
Boeing has been awarded a contract modification to provide three more MQ-25 unmanned refuelling aircraft for the USN, bringing the total order number to seven. ...
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Air Warfare
Defence Insight: Air year in review (video)
Market shifts across the air domain saw a shake up for the F-35 programme as the US moved to cut Turkey from the fighter project, ...
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Digital Battlespace
Avtomatika develops SATCOM protection for Meridian satellite
10th March 2020
Avtomatika Group, part of Russia’s state-owned Rostec conglomerate, has developed a software system to protect transmissions between the Meridian military communications satellite (14F112) and its ...
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Defence Helicopter
Boeing to oversee UK Apache’s post-production services
10th March 2020
Boeing has secured a $191.85 million cost-no-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract to provide post-production services for the UK’s AH-64E Apache helicopter fleet. This will include maintenance ...
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Digital Battlespace
Lockheed to develop protected SATCOM for US Space Force
10th March 2020
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $240 million contract to develop and produce a prototype payload for its Protected Tactical SATCOM (PTS) system. PTS will use ...
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Defence Notes
PREMIUM: US sees huge spike in Middle East arms exports
10th March 2020
Booming arms export trade between the US defence industry and the Middle East has risen by 79% over the course of the last five years, ...
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Training
PREMIUM: Varjo mixes it up
10th March 2020
Finnish company Varjo, a provider of industrial-grade VR/extended-reality (XR) headsets, has introduced real-time chroma keying and object tracking for its XR-1 Developer Edition headset. Chroma ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Schiebel S2 completes heavy fuel acceptance tests
9th March 2020
Schiebel announced on 9 March that it has completed heavy fuel acceptance testing of its S2 engine, which is to be used by the Royal ...
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Air Warfare
Bahrain signs new Raytheon Patriot System deal
9th March 2020
Raytheon will provide the Kingdom of Bahrain with Patriot air and missile defence systems as part of a new $551 million contract. The company confirmed ...
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Air Warfare
Norway uses F-35 to intercept Russian MiG-31 near its airspace
9th March 2020
The Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) scrambled an F-35A on a Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) mission for the first time on 7 March, after identifying ...
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Air Warfare
SNC to enhance USAF light fighter capability
9th March 2020
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has been granted an undefinitised contract to provide A-29 Super Tucano ground support equipment, training logistical support and sustainment activities to ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
PREMIUM: UAV procurement surge beckons for Russia
9th March 2020
Chelyabinsk-based Ural Works of Civil Aviation (UWCA) is set to become a major designer and supplier of large UAVs for the Russian armed forces in ...
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Air Warfare
Boeing gets advanced contract modification for Poseidon delivery
9th March 2020
Boeing was awarded an $800 million advanced contract modification to procure long-lead materials and support for P-8A Poseidon production and delivery. The contract was confirmed ...
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Defence Notes
PREMIUM: Combat air set to play the fall guy in UK defence review
6th March 2020
As high-profile budget difficulties tie the UK government to making tough, long-term procurement decisions across air, land and sea domains, the RAF’s combat air plans ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
UMS Skeldar launches new V-150 UAV
6th March 2020
UMS Skeldar is launching a new rotary-wing UAV with VTOL capability. The V-150 will be available to support military personnel carry out surveillance and homeland ...
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Land Warfare
PREMIUM: Russia receives first S-350 as it explores export opportunities
6th March 2020
The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) have accepted their first Almaz-Antey S-350 Vityaz surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. The initial unit was handed over on 26 February to the ...
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Digital Battlespace
PREMIUM: Turkish EW gets passive-aggressive in Syria
6th March 2020
Aselsan’s KORAL radar jamming system has been deployed to northern Syria in support of Turkish operations against Kurdish insurgents. The truck-mounted KORAL provides electronic support ...
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Air Warfare
Elbit Systems of America secures F-16 sustainment work
6th March 2020
Elbit Systems of America has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract by the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Centre worth $471.63 million. The contract was ...
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Training
PREMIUM: Aussie Hornets grow old but never die
6th March 2020
The Australian DoD announced on 5 March that up to 46 surplus Boeing F/A-18 Hornet fighters will be sold to Air USA for use as ...
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Air Warfare
Marshall secures five-year contract for C-130 cockpit trim panels
5th March 2020
Marshall Advanced Composites has signed a supply chain contract to produce cockpit trim panels for the C-130J Super Hercules aircraft. The contract from Lockheed Martin ...
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Air Warfare
Boeing awarded contract modification for KC-46 services
5th March 2020
Boeing has been awarded a contract modification worth a maximum $36.7 million, to provide engineering, manufacturing and development services for the KC-46 Pegasus tanker aircraft ...
