A #62 million contract with Boeing to convert eight Chinook Mk3 helicopters to a support helicopter role was announced by the MoD today.

Des Browne, Secretary of State for Defence, said:

“Helicopters play a vital role in supporting our operations… Continue reading →

The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35B Lightning II, the first fighter to combine stealth with short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) capability and supersonic speed, made its debut today amid customers from the United States Marine Corps, the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy… Continue reading →

CHINA LAKE, Calif., December 18th, 2007 — The U.S. Navy, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) have tested new propulsion technologies for strategic missiles atNaval Air Weapons Center China Lake, Calif.  A static test fire was conducted… Continue reading →

The Spain’s Interior Ministry has ordered two EADS CASA CN-235 aircraft in Maritime Patrol version that will be operated by the “Servicio Aéreo de la Guardia Civil.” These are the first fix-wing aircraft in service with these forces, which already… Continue reading →

EADS Defence & Security (DS) was awarded by the German Ministry of Defence (MoD) some weeks ago the prime contractor role for the research and technology programme “Agile UAV within Network-Centric Environments” (Agile UAV-NCE). This programme of Military Air Systems,… Continue reading →

The Australian Armed Forces took formally delivery today of the first two of 46 new, large and fast, troop carrying helicopters in Brisbane at Australian Aerospace, Eurocopter subsidiary. This hand-over ceremony, which was preceded by a fly-past of the two… Continue reading →

Today was the day the first C-17 Globemaster flew across the country powered by synthetic fuel.

A Globemaster — its tanks half-filled with standard jet fuel and half with a synthetic, coal-derived fuel — flew Dec. 17 from Washington’s McChord… Continue reading →