Predator Mission Trainer

Highest fidelity simulator ever developed for Predator RPA enters service for Italian Air Force

CAE today announced that the Italian Ministry of Defence and Italian Air Force have formally qualified the CAE-built Predator Mission Trainer for zero flight...
BIRD-Aerospace

BIRD wins second African ASIO contract

Martin Streetly - Israeli contractor BIRD Aerosystems has announced that it is providing a Cessna Citation-based Airborne Surveillance, Information and Observation (ASIO) solution to...
P-8A-Poseidon

U.S. Navy orders next group of P-8A aircraft; 19 jets support world-wide customers

The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a $2.4 billion production contract for the next 19 P-8A Poseidon aircraft. The contract includes 10 aircraft to...

Record Performance at Bell: V-280 Valor Reaches 280 Knots True Airspeed

Building on a full year’s worth of testing and more than 85 hours of flight time, Bell’s V-280 Valor reached its namesake cruising speed...
MRM

Four generations of strike fighters?

When UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson announced that the RAF’s F-35Bs were ready to deploy, having attained initial operating capability (IOC), he did so...
flir-black-hornet

FLIR Systems Awarded $89 Million Contract from French Armed Forces to Deliver Black Hornet...

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced it has been awarded a contract from the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) in support of the French Operational Pocket...
NGC_LITENING

High reliability and upgradeability keep LITENING leading the fight

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $1.3 billion indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) award for LITENING advanced targeting pod sustainment,...
hermes-uav

Elbit Systems U.S. subsidiary awarded a contract to deliver the Two Color Laser System...

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that its subsidiary, Elbit Systems of America LLC, was awarded a contract by Raytheon Company to provide the Two Color...
AMPS

Registration Opens for the 10th Annual Air Mission Planning and Support Conference 2019

SMi’s 10th Annual Air Mission Planning and Support Conference (http://www.airmissionplanning.co.uk/armada) is returning to London, UK on the 9th & 10th April 2019, with registration...
TH-119-Leonardo

Leonardo: TH-119 helicopter performs first flight, ready for US Navy

Leonardo is pleased to announce it successfully completed the initial flight test of the TH-119 IFR training helicopter. The TH-119 is Leonardo’s bid to...

Highlight of the Month

SOF

Adapting to Win!

The M777 155mm/39 cal Light Towed Howitzer

Run out of Guns

liberation of Syria

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