Tag: Chinook
Night Stalkers Arrive in UK for Exercise Dark Lightning
On Tuesday 3 September, two Boeing C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft arrive at RAF Mildenhall in the UK from Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia....
Honeywell Wins T55 Engine Contract From the U.S. Army in Support of the U.K....
Honeywell announced that it signed a contract to supply 34 T55-GA-714A engines to the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) for its new H-47...
US Army PEO Aviation Extends Award for ECS to Deliver Army Aviation Maintenance and...
Waymon Armstrong, CEO/president, announced that Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) has been awarded a contract extension by the U.S Army Program Executive Office –...
Clear View of Mali
A new tool being used by RAF CH-47 Chinook crews deployed to Mali with the UK’s Operation Newcombe is the beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) capability of...
Surgical Strike Artillery
Artillery systems, once considered more of an area weapon than a precision tool, are making ‘heads turn’ once again though GPS accuracy, digital target...
Boeing Chinook Block II Program Moves to Final Assembly
Boeing and the U.S. Army celebrated a major CH-47F Block II program milestone with the loading of the first engineering and manufacturing development (EMD)...
Sides Aligned in Bid for Germany’s Next Heavy Helicopter
US defence giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin went head-to-head at ILA Berlin 2018 in their efforts to replace Germany's existing fleet of Sikorsky CH-53G...
Armada International Military Helicopter Industry Survey
The military helicopter market has had a robust couple of decades, particularly as a result of its use as a counter-insurgency vehicle of choice...
Helicopters join HMS Queen Elizabeth as she sails on first aircraft trials
Chinook helicopters have landed on board HMS Queen Elizabeth for the first time as the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier heads to sea on...
Loaded
Generally associated with soldier modernisation and future technology programmes, efforts to reduce the burden on Dismounted Close Combat (DCC) personnel continue to proliferate globally,...
