Indian Ka-28 (click to view larger) In September 2008, Flight International reported that India's defence ministry has issued a tender for "advanced multirole naval helicopters" to several manufacturers around the world, including AgustaWestland, EADS and Sikorsky....
Americas The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion, and Repair awarded General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works with a $15.6 million contract modification for LCS Planning Yard Services. The work is for the USS Jackson and future Independence-variant littoral combat ships....
Americas The Navy tapped Lockheed Martin with a $90.4 million contract modification to reduce the cost of the F-35 Lightning II Air System. The modification provides for the identification and execution of cost reduction initiatives. The F-35 single-seat,...
Americas The Navy awarded Boeing a $56.8 million contract providing program management as well as engineering and integrated logistics support for the post-production support phase of the T-45 aircraft lifecycle. The T-45 Goshawk is the US Navy’s two seat advanced jet...
Runway Buzz: L-159As (click to view full) Czechoslovakia originally ordered 72 of Aero Vodochody's sub-sonic L-159A single-seat light attack jets. Their preceding L-39/59 Albatros trainer and light attack aircraft family became the world's most popular jet trainers...
Saab concept (click to view full) The European nEUROn project joins Britain's Taranis UCAV, Russia's MiG SKAT, Boeing's X-45 Phantom Ray, and the US Navy's X-47 UCAS-D program as unmanned aircraft projects with fighter-substitution potential. Multinational projects...
Americas Northrop Grumman is being contracted to support the US Air Force. The $1.3 billion IDIQ contract covers sustainment, modernization and development efforts of the LITENING advanced targeting pod. Designed to improve both day and night attack capabilities,...
KHP/Surion rollout (click to view full) South Korea currently owns around 700 helicopters, but more than half are considered outdated, and they need to be replaced. December 2005 marked the endgame for a South Korean competition to produce about 245 utility transport...
Americas The US Navy is pouring more money into US, UK submarine fire control systems research. General Dynamics is receiving a $35 million contract modification that provides for R&D, and sustainment efforts for the US, UK SSBN Fire Control Sub-system (FCS) and...
Tornado refuels M346 (click to view full) Alenia's Aermacchi's M-346 advanced jet trainer began life in 1993, as a collaboration with Russia. It was also something of a breakthrough for Alenia Aermacchi, confirming that the Finmeccanica subsidiary could design and...