Americas * Bell Helicopter's V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft flew for the first time on December 18, at a Bell facility in Amarillo, Texas. Monday's test saw the helicopter perform a low hover for up to 20 minutes, and follows a series of ground trials conducted since...
Americas * Lockheed Martin announced Monday that is has met the US government's target for the year of delivering 66 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft to the US military and allied partners. The deliveries account for a 40 percent increase on ones made in 2016, and...
Americas * United Technologies Corp. will perform sustainment services on Pratt and Whitney F-119 engines used on Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor. The $6.7 billion agreement falls under the terms of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract between the firm...
Lebanese armed forces The Lebanese Army's own web site is blunt: "The assistance received from Syria, the USA, and other friendly countries has played a basic role in bridging the gap between needs and available means." A number of countries are stepping up to fill...
Americas * According to a story originally reported in the Spanish-language news website, Defensa, the Colombian Air Force is currently evaluating a series of options that will boost its fighter-interceptor fleet capabilities. The main option involves procuring about...
Americas * A news conference held by the Canadian government on Tuesday made clear that Boeing would not be supplying them with 18 F/A-18 Super Hornets—they will instead buy second-hand from Australia in a deal worth $388 million—and warned the US airframer that it...
Americas * A report released Monday by the Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General into the US Navy's Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program has found that the service did not effectively develop and manage electronic warfare capabilities for upgrades to...
RC-12N Guardrail (click to view full) They're derived from Hawker-Beechcraft's popular King Air B200 twin-prop planes, and they look like a dog that just finished chasing a family of porcupines. Their specialty is intercepting enemy communications, and snooping on...
Americas * A 20-person team from Embraer arrived December 4 at an airport in Scottsbluff County, Nebraska in order to conduct cross-wind landing testing on its KC-390 military transport aircraft. Testing was initially scheduled to take place in Texas but weather in...