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The USAF has completed extreme environment testing for the HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter at the McKinley Climatic Lab on Eglin AFB, Florida. Testing was concluded ...
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has begun flight trials of the Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk helicopter off the coast of Queensland. The trials, involving the Canberra-class landing helicopter dock (LHD) ...
Airbus Helicopters has confirmed that the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has placed a new order for two H225 aircraft. The parapublic organisation is Japan’s largest ...
Boeing announced on 5 April that it is extending the suspension of production in at its plants in the Puget Sound area and Moses Lake ...
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6th April 2020
Denmark will provide an undisclosed number of EH101 helicopters as its main contribution to a multinational task force to bolster security in the Sahel, Shephard has learned. ...
3rd April 2020
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 ...
3rd April 2020
Boeing will suspend production at its Ridley Township facilities near Philadelphia to reduce the risks posed by the worsening COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. In a statement ...
2nd April 2020
RUAG MRO Switzerland has reconfigured two Airbus Helicopters H135Ms for Swiss procurement agency armasuisse and the Swiss Air Force, to enable the helicopters to safely ...
31st March 2020
A system intended to avoid "blue-on-blue" incidents among ground forces is now being extended to personnel operating combat helicopters and unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs). ...
30th March 2020
The British Army has deployed three Leonardo AW159 Wildcat Helicopters to support the national effort to help coronavirus patients. Aircraft from the Army Air Corps ...
27th March 2020
Shephard understands that the German federal government has asked its US counterpart for information about the Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. Over the years, Boeing ...
27th March 2020
Following the on-schedule downselect of Bell and Sikorsky to compete for the Future Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) prototype design and test phase, the US Army has confirmed it sees ...
23rd March 2020
The Ivory Coast has lost its second Russian-made Mi-24 attack helicopter aircraft after it crashed at Felix Houphouet Boigny Airport near the capital, Abidjan. The ...
19th March 2020
Construction Helicopters has been awarded a $33.9 million contract modification through the FMS process to support NATO’s Air Command-Afghanistan and the Combined Security Transition Command. ...
18th March 2020
The impact of COVID-19 has caused widespread disruption to the European defence industry which has introduced exceptional operational measures to protect the health of armed forces personnel, ...
18th March 2020
Rafael continues to offer its Spike family of antitank guided missiles as a weapons upgrade for various types of utility helicopter. Spike variants already arm ...
18th March 2020
Raytheon has received a $9.31 million delivery order for H-53 Sea Stallion aircraft electronic modules. The expected completion date of the contract is 7 March ...
13th March 2020
A supposed contract for at least 20 Leonardo AW149 8t-class helicopters from Egypt has not been listed among the orders signed off by the manufacturer ...
11th March 2020
Malaysia will take delivery of six MD 530G helicopters from the end of 2020, following a decision by the then Pakatan Harapan government, before its ...
11th March 2020
Sikorsky was awarded a $525.4 million contract modification by US Army Contracting Command on 10 March. This allows Sikorsky to exercise contract options on the ...
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 ...
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, ...
5th March 2020
The anti-ship weapons capabilities of the RN AW159 Wildcat have been dealt a blow with confirmation that the new MBDA Sea Venom missile has suffered from design ...
