Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases Eurofighter Kicks Off Finnish Air Force H-X Evaluation Process Finland's Air force began testing candidate aircraft vying to replace the Air Force's aging fleet of fighter jets on Thursday, as the government weighs a purchasing decision due next year. Each of ... Canada Accuses Iran of Downing A Plane In Tehran, Killing 176 “We have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence,” declared Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, speaking on January 9th of the loss of a Ukrainian airline... 'Designed by Clowns': Boeing Employees Ridicule 737 MAX, FAA in Internal E-Mails WASHINGTON --- Boeing Co has released hundreds of internal messages that contained harshly critical comments about the development of the 737 MAX, including one that said the plane was “designed by cl... US Lawmakers Back Limits to Trump's War Powers President Trump's decision to kill a senior Iranian general "endangered Americans," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As the resolution makes its way to the Senate, two Republicans have pledged support... US Approves $2.7Bn Sale of 12 Lockheed F-35Bs to Singapore WASHINGTON, DC. ---The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Singapore of up to twelve (12) F-35B Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft... UK's Nuclear Weapons Program £1.3Bn Over Budget: NAO The UK's nuclear weapons programme is £1.3 billion over budget due to delays caused by poor management, a Government spending watchdog has warned. The National Audit Office (NAO) said the Ministry ... Pentagon Auditing Pratt’s $66Bn F-35 Engine Program The Pentagon’s audit agency is digging into cost and pricing data for F-35 engines to determine why United Technology Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney unit isn’t extracting more savings from subcontractors on ... Poland Signs $103M Offsets Deal for AW101 Purchase Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze No. 1 S.A. and Gdansk University of Technology signed offset agreements on January 8, 2020, which result from the purchase of four AW101 helicopters for the Polish Navy. T... Eurofighter Takes Off for Finnish Air Force’s Flight Evaluation Trials Cutting-edge Eurofighter aircraft will today become the first to take part in the 2020 HX Challenge – the Finnish Air Force’s series of Flight Evaluation Trials. The trials are being run as a key p... First AESA Radar Retrofitted to Air National Guard F-16 BALTIMORE --– The U.S. Air Force has completed installation of Northrop Grumman Corporation’s AN/APG-83 SABR radars on Air National Guard F-16s at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, to meet a U.S. Northern... Airbus to Increase Investment, Expand Aircraft Manufacturing in US MOBILE, AL. --- Airbus announced today that, as part of its plan to produce 63 A320 Family aircraft per month in 2021, the company will expand its industrial footprint in the U.S. by increasing the pr... ECA Group Will Make Naval Mine Clearance Drones in Ostend ECA Group, an expert in robotics, automated systems, simulation and industrial processes, will build its new plant in the port of Ostend in order to carry out the contract to supply their unmanned sys... Northrop Continues Joint STARS Work for US Air Force under $302M Contract MELBOURNE, Fla. --- Northrop Grumman Corporation received a $302 million contract from the U.S. Air Force on Nov. 1, 2019 for continued support of the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Jo... Total Competition: China’s Challenge in the South China Sea China’s bid for ascendancy remains anchored in the South China Sea and surrounding Southeast Asian countries. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) deems it economically and militarily vital to dominate t... Defence Leaders to Join Forces at 2020 Space Conference Leaders from government, industry and academia will join forces at the Defence Space 2020 conference in London on 20-21 May. Organised by the MOD and the Air and Space Power Association, the confer... China Cautions Against Subversive Changes in War Patterns After the US killed Gen. Qassem Suleimani, a senior commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), by shooting missiles from drones, Iran began to take revenge on January 8 by laun... Drones, Targeted Killing and the Soleimani Strike A week ago, a US air strike that officials (speaking off-the-record) acknowledged was carried out by a Reaper drone, killed senior Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and up to 10 others, travelling in a... How NATO Can Deter Russian "Gray Zone" Aggression Russia's conventional capabilities pose a serious threat to NATO that remains mostly untested. Where it has historically succeeded is in using various types of hostile measures to sow disorder, weaken... First Open-Source Project Provide Warfighters with More Advanced Systems CRANE, Ind. --- Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) scientists and engineers have contributed Crane’s first open source project to provide warfighters with more advanced systems.... ESA and EDA Joint Research: Advancing into the Unknown BRUAAELA --- The European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Defence Agency (EDA) are embarking on new cooperative projects for exploring unknown and potentially hazardous environments: harnessing dr... |