Raytheon in discussions with three potential Sentinel R1 customers
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Raytheon is seeking export customers for its Sentinel R1 wide-area surveillance aircraft, for which it is in talks with three potential operators. Five of the Bombardier Global Express-derived type are currently in operation with the Royal Air Force, but the company is now targeting customers in Asia, Middle East and the Far East. While the […]
Saab is confident of winning T-X program in partnership with Boeing
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Sweden’s Saab (SAABb.ST) is confident of selling training jets to the U.S. Air Force, but believes its bidding partnership with Boeing (BA.N) could lead to further co-operation whoever wins the $11 billion contest, its chief executive said. Boeing and Saab are among contenders for a deal to replace the aging T-38 trainer in a competition […]
ISIS have claimed they have shot down a Su-22M-4 in Syria
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17th Sep. 2015, a SyAAF Su-22M-4 operating from T4 airbase was shot down over Jazal oil field area located around 40km to the north east of the said airbase. ISIS media reported shooting down the aircraft claimed as ‘MiG-21‘ which is apparently not. The Islamic State (IS) group reported on Thursday that it has shot […]
Korea Aerospace signed a deal to export T-50TH trainer jets to the Thailand
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South Korea’s sole aircraft manufacturer, Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd., said Thursday that it signed a deal to export trainer jets to the Thai government for around $110 million. The deal inked in Seoul between leaders of the two sides called for KAI to deliver four units of the T-50TH to the Thai government within 30 […]
Kasama Helicopter Signed a Partnership with Lockheed Martin
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The Thai-RC and UAV developer Kasama Helicopter and world’s leading defense and aerospace firm Lockheed Martin today signed the agreement to partner and exchange technologies in which we could see Kasama UAV on the Lockheed Martin’s product list. “Lockheed Martin is able to provide things we want such as flight control software or ground control […]
Photo of Royal Saudi Air Force Hawk Mk.165
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Royal Saudi Air Force Hawk Mk.165. The Mk. 165 is an export variant of the AJT currently on order by the Royal Saudi Air Force. The 22 aircraft are to be built in the UK by BAE.
France plans air strikes in Syria ‘in coming weeks’
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France is planning air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremists in Syria in the coming weeks in an effort to stem its growing presence in the country, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Wednesday. France, which has so far only taken part in strikes in Iraq, began reconnaissance flights […]
Russia will create a new combat airborne laser system
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Russia will create a promising combat airborne laser system installed in a IL-76MD-90A is a new military transport aircraft (code name: IL-476) developed by Ilyushin Aviation Complex. At «Taganrog Beriyev Aviation Scientific-Technical Complex» (TANTK) on the basis of the second batch of modernized Il-76MD-90A (№01-04) works on conversion into a flying laboratory with a set of laser weapons […]
L-39NG trainer successfully completed the first test flight
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On September 14th, 2015, the factory crew of AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE a.s., composed of Miroslav Schützner and Vladimír Kvarda, successfully completed the first test flight of the L-39NG trainer demonstrator, featuring the new FJ44-4M engine from Williams International and avionics built around Genesys Aerosystems’ multi-functional displays and head-up displays (HUD) by SPEEL Praha. The aircraft […]
Lockheed Martin Outlines Plans for Next-Generation Spy Plane
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Lockheed Martin Skunk Works’ proposal for a next-generation, optionally-manned U-2 surveillance aircraft has morphed into more of a tactical reconnaissance aircraft dubbed “TR-X”. The designation is both a throwback to the U-2’s TR-1 designation in the 1980s but also symbolises a change in thinking that could drive the design to be more of an affordable […]