For its time, the B-58 Hustler was гeⱱoɩᴜtіonагу in many wауѕ. It featured a radical delta wing shape, but it also included sophisticated inertial guidance navigation and bombing system, as well as a slender “wasp-waist” fuselage and extensive use of heat-resistant honeycomb sandwich skin panels in the wings and fuselage. However, […]
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Launch of South Africa’s First Locally Made Attack Helicopter
The Atlas/Denel AH-2 Rooivalk is an early example of how South Africa successfully built up its own arms industry. The Atlas (now Denel) AH-2 Rooivalk (Red Kestrel) is in many wауѕ a ɩeɡасу of South Africa’s effort to develop an indigenous arms industry due to the international arms embargo that was in effect tһгoᴜɡһoᴜt the 1970s […]
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First Flight of the Diamond Aircraft DART-750 Aerobatic Trainer
On 12 June 2023, the DART-750 aerobatic trainer powered by the PT6A-25C turboprop engine made its first flight at Diamond Aircraft’s headquarters in Wiener Neustadt (Austria). In January 2022 Diamond Aircraft announced that the DART-750 will be using the proven and certified 750 SHP PT6A-25C turboprop engine from Pratt & […]
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HENSOLDT Named As The Program’s Principal Partner For Line Of Sight Data Links
HENSOLDT and Sener’s Spanish-French team will deliver the Wide Band LOS Ku data link of the Eurodrone program incorporating cybersecurity capabilities. Following the signing of an industrial collaboration agreement at the end of 2022, Sener Aerospace & Defence and HENSOLDT France have been appointed for the development, certification and future […]
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A $372 million contract to upgrade the Super Hornet and Growler aircraft was given to Raytheon
Raytheon Awarded $372 Million Order to Upgrade Super Hornet and Growler Aircrafts Raytheon Intelligence and Space, El Segundo, California, is awarded a $372,137,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursable, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. This contract provides for updates, improvements, and enhancements of tactical capabilities, sensor instrumentation, and instrumentation interfaces in support of F/A-18 Super […]
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Contract for Additional MCH-101 Helicopters with the JMSDF is Signed by Leonardo and Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Leonardo and Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) signed a contract for additional MCH-101 naval helicopters for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), and it marked the start of a mid-life update (MLU) programme for the type in Japan. The MCH-101 is a license-built version of the Leonardo AW101 helicopter. The signing, […]
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The US Navy receives the first modified E-6B Mercury aircraft from Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that the first E-6B Mercury Aircraft has been successfully delivered back to the U.S. Navy. Northrop Grumman successfully delivers the first E-6B Mercury Aircraft under the IMMC back to the Navy in record time. Five kits were successfully integrated onto the E-6B platform, implementing efficiencies and improving aircraft […]
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France May Purchase E-2C Hawkeye Sustainment Goods and Services, Per US State Department
French Navy E-2C Hawkeye Airborne early warning and control The U.S. State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of France of E-2C Hawkeye sustainment items and services for an estimated cost of $160 million. The Government of France has requested to buy […]
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Future Military Transportation May Be Made Possible by a Revolutionary Helicopter-Jet Hybrid Outfitted with Rocket Boosters
The Fairey Rotodyne was a full-sized military transport jet that could take off like a plane and land like a helicopter.What do you think happened when one particularly ambitious British aerospace firm decided to combine the traits of a helicopter with the latest and greatest in jet technology? If your […]
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The B-2 Spirit’s forgotten predecessors were the YB-35 and YB-49 flying wings
The innovative and potentially very effective flying wing design, in which the tail section and fuselage are deleted and all payload is carried in a thick wing, was employed by the YB-35 and YB-49. Both the YB-35 and the YB-49 used the radical and potentially very efficient flying wing design, […]
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