DefenceTalkEuropean aerospace giant EADS, the maker of Airbus aircraft, announced plans Monday to cut 5,800 jobs in its defence and space division over three years. The job cuts, part of a major restructuring in the face of falling orders, will affect the group’s workforce in Germany, France, Spain and Britain, the company said in a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/eads-to-cut-5800-jobs-in-europe-in-restructuring-49886/

DefenceTalkA reduction in defence orders will have an impact on jobs in EADS’s defence unit, the head of the European aerospace giant said in an interview published Monday. Tom Enders told vbw-Unternehmenmagazin, the magazine of the Bavarian economic federation, that “if defence orders are cancelled or reduced as has happened in Germany in recent years, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/eads-chief-warns-jobs-cuts-coming-in-defence-unit-49741/

DefenceTalkTwo of the Royal Air Force’s leading officers have hailed the performance of the Eurofighter Typhoon jet during its first decade of flying and since deliveries were made to the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) in 2003. With the addition of new technology developments over the last 10 years, the aircraft is now the world’s […]https://www.defencetalk.com/eurofighter-typhoon-marks-decade-in-raf-service-48816/

DefenceTalkEuropean aerospace consortium EADS has been eliminated from a bid to provide fighter jets worth $7.3 billion to South Korea due to a failure to meet some requirements, a report said Sunday. The Eurofighter was dropped from the bid also sought by US company Boeing after the South’s military found that the EADS proposal did […]https://www.defencetalk.com/eads-dropped-from-7-3-bn-s-korea-jet-fighter-bid-report-48804/

DefenceTalkSouth Korea formally opened bidding Tuesday on a $7.3 billion deal to provide 60 advanced fighter planes, with three aviation giants vying for what is the Asian nation’s largest defence contract to date. US companies Boeing and Lockheed Martin and the European aerospace consortium EADS are in the running, and all have prefaced their bids […]https://www.defencetalk.com/south-korea-opens-bidding-on-7-3-bn-fighter-jet-deal-48154/

DefenceTalkThree top European defence firms called Sunday on governments to launch a program to manufacture drones that European countries are currently having to buy from Israel or the United States. France’s Dassault Aviation, European aerospace giant EADS and Italy’s Finmeccanica argued such a joint program would “support the capability needs of European armed forces while […]https://www.defencetalk.com/defence-giants-call-for-european-drone-program-48116/

DefenceTalkCassidian is proud to participate at the 50th edition of the Paris International Air Show held at Le Bourget Exhibition Center between the 17th and the 23rd June 2013. Cassidian has evolved dramatically to deliver innovation wherever it matters: in its technologies, its range of expertise and business approach. At the occasion of Paris Airshow […]https://www.defencetalk.com/cassidian-presents-uav-projects-and-innovative-cyber-protection-at-paris-air-show-48107/

DefenceTalkFollowing Eurofighter’s promise to assemble 53 Eurofighters in Korea if the aircraft is selected as Korea’s next generation fighter, global aerospace company EADS said that it will “invest $2 billion and its technology in the KF-X to help Korea to become a fighter jet producer.” If Eurofighter produces 53 out of 60 fighter jets in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/eads-offers-to-invest-2billion-if-korea-buys-eurofighter-47867/

DefenceTalkThe US Defense Department has decided to stop buying EADS Lakota helicopters for the Army next year, according to the head of the European aerospace’s US-based unit. “The Lakota is built by a highly skilled workforce, more than half of which are military veterans, at my company’s Columbus, Mississippi, helicopter production facility,” Sean O’Keefe, chairman […]https://www.defencetalk.com/eads-says-pentagon-ending-helicopter-program-47765/

DefenceTalkThe Eurofighter IPA 8 (Instrumented Production Aircraft 8) test aircraft has achieved an important production milestone at Cassidian in Manching: with the mounting of the right wing, the connection between the cockpit, vertical tail unit and wings with the fuselage has been completed. “IPA 8 is based on the latest Eurofighter Tranche 3 construction standard […]https://www.defencetalk.com/cassidian-produces-the-worlds-most-advanced-eurofighter-47277/