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IDEX 2019: UAE's 407 MRH sees continued success (video)
Thirty 407MRH light attack helicopters are currently in operation with the UAE. Lyle Becka, VP of operations at NorthStar Aviation runs through the capabilities and ...
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Polaris MRZR 4 | Specifications | Defence Insight
Watch the video to discover the specifications and in-service data of the Polaris MRZR 4. As part of our AUSA Annual coverage this year, we have produced ...
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Lockheed Martin M142 HIMARS | Specifications | Defence Insight
Watch the video to discover the specifications and in-service data of the Lockheed Martin M142 HIMARS. As part of our AUSA Annual coverage this year, we have ...
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Pacific 2019: Leonardo offers helicopters and UAVs to Australia
Leonardo has two Australian Army helicopter tenders and two UAV competitions – one for the army and the other for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) ...
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V-22 fleet logs 500,000 flight hours
The Bell-Boeing V-22 tiltrotor programme has reached a new milestone, with the fleet logging a combined 500,000 flight hours. More than 375 Ospreys are flying ...
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India to upgrade helicopters after fratricide incident
The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) newly appointed Chief of Air Staff R.K.S Bhadauria opened the force’s 87th anniversary on a transparent note when he officially ...
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Viper ready to strike with venom in Asia-Pacific
Buoyed by several regional attack helicopter acquisition programmes ongoing in Asia-Pacific, Bell is pushing its Viper and Venom duo hard. At the moment, there are ...
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IDEX 2019: Middle Eastern nations strengthen air advantage (video)
The order of 16 F-16 Block 70s aircraft and delivery of the first five MD 530F Cayuse Warrior helicopters in 2018 strengthened the respective air ...
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MASE-equipped NH90s ready for operation
20th June 2019
Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) NH90 helicopters equipped with Terma's Modular Aircraft Survivability Equipment (MASE) system are now ready for operational use, the company announced ...
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Paris Air Show: FlytX for France's future Joint Light Helicopter
19th June 2019
The French defence procurement agency (DGA) has selected Thales' FlytX avionics suite for its future H160M Joint Light Helicopter, Thales announced on 14 June.The FlytX ...
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Paris Air Show: Leonardo exhibits new missile warning system
18th June 2019
Leonardo has revealed its new Multiple Aperture Infra-Red (MAIR) missile warning system for fixed and rotary-wing aircraft at the Paris Air Show. MAIR’s chief function ...
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Paris Air Show: H160M mock up demonstrates payload options (video)
18th June 2019
Nearing the end of a complex journey from civil platform development to delivery of a military variant to the French Armed Forces, the Airbus H160M ...
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Paris Air Show: BSN systems for S-70 Black Hawk
17th June 2019
Blue Sky Network (BSN) has signed a contract with Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation to provide tracking and SATCOM systems for the S-70 Black Hawk helicopter. BSN ...
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France orders more H225M helicopters
17th June 2019
Airbus Helicopters has received an order from the French Defence Procurement Agency DGA for an additional H225M for the French Air Force. The aircraft will ...
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Paris Air Show: Swedish Air Force holds back on helicopter modernisation
17th June 2019
Unlike plans to refresh fighter jet capabilities with a forthcoming Gripen E fleet, the Swedish Air Force is in no hurry to change the look ...
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Lockheed Martin develops Rely3D
13th June 2019
Lockheed Martin has launched a new version of its Rely3D visualisation and training tool for Apache AH-64 sensor system maintainers. Rely3D leverages capabilities from commercial ...
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Boeing receives Chinook funding
12th June 2019
Boeing has received a $10 million contract modification to support the US Army’s CH-47F Block II Engineering and Manufacturing Development programme. The company was issued ...
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Greece gets ex-US military helicopters
11th June 2019
The US Army Security Assistance Command has completed the delivery of 70 OH-58D Kiowa Warrior armed reconnaissance helicopters and one CH-47D Chinook heavy-lift helicopter to ...
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Sikorsky gets green light for presidential helicopter
11th June 2019
Sikorsky has received a Low Rate Production (LRIP) Lot 1 contract from the US Navy to build six VH-92A helicopters. The presidential helicopters will be ...
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Paris Air Show: Collins tool up for open architecture effort
10th June 2019
Collins Aerospace is developing software-based toolkits that allow third party applications to be rapidly integrated into open architecture environments, Shephard has learnt. The toolkits are capable ...
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Paris Air Show: Re-engined Chinook to fly in 2019
10th June 2019
Boeing, in co-operation with the US Army and GE, will fly a Chinook with two GE T408 engines in 2019 in an effort to examine ...
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Paris Air Show: Boeing foreshadows V-22 line closure
10th June 2019
It is ‘final call’ at the last chance saloon for any new or existing customers considering buying or purchasing more V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, according ...
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Black Hawk goes optionally piloted
7th June 2019
Sikorsky has embarked on a flight test programme to operate the Black Hawk helicopter in optionally unmanned mode. Sikorsky is taking an optionally piloted vehicle ...
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Optionally piloted Black Hawk begins flight tests
7th June 2019
Sikorsky has begun flight testing a UH-60 Black Hawk equipped with a new retrofit kit designed to turn the helicopter into an optionally piloted vehicle ...
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Karem set to embark on new JMR-TD test phase
6th June 2019
Manufacturer Karem Aircraft is preparing to carry out ‘record tests’ later this year to verify a host of development-based items associated with the US Army’s ...
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SNC to provide HH-60G DVES
6th June 2019
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has been awarded a contract by the US Air Force for system design, development, integration and test of the Degraded Visual ...
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Raytheon to produce more AMNS
5th June 2019
The US Department of Defense has elected to exercise an option under a previously awarded contract with Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems for the Airborne Mine ...
