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French airframer will boost wingspan, payload and endurance if home nation proceeds with development programme. Daher Aircraft has provided more detail on the performance of the medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) drone it could develop for the French armed forces if Paris opts to proceed with such a programme. In December last year, the French airframer announced…
UK company awaits launch of competition to replace RAF-operated Hawks. BAE Systems is waiting for a competition launch to advance its promotion of the Boeing T-7 advanced jet trainer (AJT) for a high-profile UK Royal Air Force (RAF) requirement. Chris Hunter, BAE's T-7 campaign director, says the company is still "very much in the preparation…
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White House officials posted farewells to tail number 29000 after what they described as a final flight.
Draft legislation from the US Senate would provide $127 million to cover four MH-6 helicopters and two MC-130J special operations transports destroyed while recovering a downed American F-15E crew. Lawmakers in Washington, DC are advancing funding to replace some aircraft lost during combat operations in Iran. The draft legislation, which comes as the Trump Administration…
New system is smaller, more effective than existing equipment. Honeywell Aerospace has announced a new navigation system for collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) that can function in contested environments. The Kestrel navigation system is designed to help uncrewed assets operate reliably in environments where GPS signals can be degraded, jammed, or spoofed, says the company. The…
The US Air Force's KC-46 Pegasus remains trapped in a costly limbo more than a decade after development began.
The reason why the USAF kept nuclear armed B-52s on continual rotation just outside of Soviet airspace...for nearly a decade.
The acquisition is part of a wholesale modernisation of Canada's military trainer fleet, including both rotary- and fixed-wing platforms. Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first H135 rotary-wing trainer to the Royal Canadian Air Force. The light twin will enter service with the RCAF as the CT-153 Juno after being turned over from Airbus' completion centre…
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