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The Boeing-Leonardo MH-139 has beaten off industry competition from Sikorsky and the Sierra Nevada Corporation to claim a $2.4 billion US Air Force UH-1N Huey ...
The Naval Flight Test Squadron (NFTS) of the Indian Navy (IN) celebrated its first anniversary with a seminar on 20 September, and the Goa-based squadron ...
Two Royal Navy Sea King helicopters have completed a final flypast over Devon and Cornwall ahead of their retirement from military service. The two Sea ...
Airbus Helicopters has received an additional order from the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) for the supply of four H225M multirole utility helicopters, the company ...
The newly rebranded Turkish Aerospace, formerly Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), is pushing to dominate the medium to heavy helicopter markets through two new models. The ...
With RNAS Yeovilton recently receiving the first of 25 Commando Merlin Mk4/A helicopters, Shephard spoke with Lt Tom Lennon, CHF pilot and Graham Russell, director ...
15th May 2009
The Australian Defence Material Organisation is forecasting combined sustainment costs of $A403 million (US$304 million) during FY2009-2010 for the Australian defence forces Eurocopter Tiger and ...
15th May 2009
Bell Helicopter announced that its Earned Value Management System has been approved by the Defence Contract Management Agency. “Approval of our certification is the culmination ...
13th May 2009
AgustaWestland has launched a Helicopter Tactics Training Programme for military helicopter crews to help them prepare for deployed multi-national operations, especially in conflict zones where ...
13th May 2009
AgustaWestland has announced that it has been awarded a contract for sixteen ICH-47F Chinook helicopters plus four options for the Italian Army by the General ...
13th May 2009
Speaking to press at Boeing’s Titusville facility, FL, on the day of the last shuttle mission tasked with maintaining the Hubble telescope, Chris Raymond, Boeing’s ...
12th May 2009
Members of the 103 Search and Rescue Squadron, Canadian Armed Forces and other agencies--who were involved in a 2008 search and rescue operation of a ...
12th May 2009
Bental Industries posts another accomplishment for its venerable MicroBAT with OtoMelara's successful multi platform MicroBAT demonstration to Italian senior MOD staff including Chief of Staff ...
11th May 2009
The British Army's Blue Eagles are back in action this summer. The Middle Wallop-based helicopter display team will be appearing at eight shows during the 2009 ...
11th May 2009
The Army's Avenger air defense system is not part of the firefight these days in overseas contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. But its machine ...
11th May 2009
Amid the impressive collection of Army airpower on display at the 2009 Army Aviation Association of America convention in Nashville, Tennessee, it was the EADS ...
11th May 2009
Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced it has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by ASC AWD Shipbuilder on behalf of the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Alliance, to ...
11th May 2009
The Australian Department of Defence has spent at least A$96.43 million on spares and operational upgrades for its United States-sourced military helicopters since the start ...
10th May 2009
Philip Dunford, VP and GM Rotorcraft Systems, Boeing, voiced a warning during the Acquisition Round Table professional session at the AAAA conference last week that ...
8th May 2009
After three successful combat deployments over more than 19 consecutive months, Marine Corps MV-22 Ospreys will begin a global deployment with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary ...
8th May 2009
The Apaches of the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) have passed the milestone 5,000 operational flying hours in Afghanistan. Five AH-64D Apaches from 301 Squadron, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
6th May 2009
In answer to the call (stated publically by a couple of commanders here already) for a Hellfire-like guided weapon that has accuracy without the ‘sledgehammer’ ...
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