U.S. Navy pilots got the chance to practice sling-load external lifting operations with MH-53 Sea Dragons during recent exercises at Fort Drum, New York.
Boeing has been awarded a $60.8 million U.S. Navy contract to bring the Increment 3 Block 2 capabilities of the P-8A Poseidon Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft through preliminary and critical design review.
Under a launch-for-data-exchange contract, NASA will launch Lockheed Martin’s SkyFire 6U CubeSat on a lunar science trajectory as part of the agency’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).
Lockheed Martin sees the follow-on as a potential opening for its Dual Mode Plus tail kit in the dual-model bomb market dominated by Boeing’s Laser JDAM.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has U.S. Navy contract to begin work on second Japanese E-2D Advanced Hawkeye. First Japanese E-2D is due for 2018 delivery. RAYTHEON has $523m U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract option to produce, test and deliver 47 Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB interceptors for testing and deployment.
The U.S. is demonstrating its ability to strike targets around the globe, sending five of its bomber aircraft on long-range missions in the Arctic and Pacific. Three B-52 Stratofortress and two B-2 Spirit bombers are conducting nonstop flights from the U.S. to the North and Baltic Seas, according to U.S. Strategic Command. The aircraft are flying over Alaska and the North Pole and over the Pacific Ocean to the Aleutian Islands. As part of the mission called “Polar Roar” the bombers are conducting intercept training with Canadian CF-18s and U.S.
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A new assessment of nearly 4,300 exoplanet candidates detected using NASA’s Kepler space observatory has produced 20 Earthlike terrestrial planets orbiting their host stars within the so-called “habitable zone."
The first two Compass Call aircraft outfitted with glass cockpits under the $45 million Avionics Viability Program (AVP) have returned to Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona after modification.
Argentina’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer, Fábrica Argentina de Aviones (FAdeA), has completed the first flight of its IA-100 indigenously produced composite training aircraft
Magic Carpet is a set of software changes to the aircraft’s integrated controls to use the F/A-18’s angle of attack to help ensure the proper glidepath and provide a steadier aircraft controlled by relatively small and quick wing adjustments.
Malaysian maintenance firm Airod has completed a program of maintenance on its first Lockheed Martin KC-130J Hercules aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps.
Japan has issued standing orders to its armed forces to shoot down foreign missiles, five days after the country was caught unaware by the closest impact so far of a North Korean ballistic weapon.
