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Military aviation20 new F-16 Advanced Block 56 airplanes for Egyptian Air Force
Cairo, Egypt - The order committed to Lockheed Martin inside "Peace Vector" programme
The Egyptian air force's fleet will be soon enriched by 20 F-16 Advanced Block 52 fighters, brand new. Sixteen airplanes will be F-16C, single seat, and four F-16C, twin seat, and they well be delivered... more
Military aviationUSAF tanker airplane's tender: maybe the participation by EADS-Northrop Grumman
Rome, Italy - Too many specifications requested and doubt about economic advantage
The EADS (Europe)-Northrop Grumman (USA) partnership couldn't take part to new call for tender re-announced for tanker airplane destined to US Air Force, that awarded the previous tender for USD 35 bn,... more
Military aviationAustrian Air Force successfully reaches 1,500 flying hours with Typhoons airplanes
Hallbergmoos, Germany - They have been used to defend the air space during recent events
The Eurofighter Typhoons in service with the Österreichische Luftstreitkräfte, Austria’s Joint Armed Forces Command have successfully reached the 1,500 flying hours milestone. This success came to... more
Military aviationBrazil to choose its fighter in March
Brasilia, Brazil - The tender between Dassault Rafale, Saab Gripen and Boeing F/A-18E/F
The tender for the new Brazilian Air Force fighter aircraft might end by the end of March, when a final decision will be made between the present offers, as stated by Air Force commander, general Juniti... more
Military aviationA-400M: governments' agree to carry on
Palma, Spain - Details will be discussed today
Governments participating in the Airbus A-400M programme yesterday announced they had found an agreement on cost sharing to carry on with the project, that is about four years behind schedule and that... more
Military aviationChange at Italian AMI top between generals Tei and Bernardis, new chief of staff
Rome, Italy - Ceremony will take place at Pratica di Mare Military Airport on Thursday February 25, 2010
"On Thursday February 25, 2010, at the military airport 'Mario De Bernardi', in Pratica di Mare (Roma) change at Military Aviation leadership will take place: general Giuseppe Bernardis, new chief of staff... more
Military aviationCanada starts test on CH-148 Cyclone helicopters
Halifax , Canada - 28 units ordered
The first CH-148 Cyclone helicopter has arrived in Shearwater, Army's military base, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, coming from Sikorsky Aircraft facility in Florida, to afford first flight tests. During... more
Military aviationIndia presents its new MiG-29K fighters
New Delhi, India - A quantum leap for New Delhi's Navy
India has introduced the Russian-made MiG-29K air superiority fighter in the fleet of its Navy. The presentation took place on Friday with a showcase of the entire naval aviation means of the country,... more
Military aviationBoeing proposal for USAF C-17 training
St. Louis, USA - Leading a team of six companies
A team led by Boeing has submitted a proposal to the US Air Force to provide aircrew and maintenance training support for the service's C-17 Globemaster III fleet under the new C-17 Training System contract. "As... more
Military aviationP-8I aircraft parts: Boeing-HAL partnership
New Delhi, India - The Indians will provide weapons bay doors
Boeing and HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) today announced that they have signed a contract for the India-based manufacturer to provide weapons bay doors for eight P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance... more
Military aviationMaiden flight for CH-53GA helicopter
Donauwörth, Germany - Right on schedule
The CH-53GA medium-lift military transport helicopter successfully completed its maiden flight over the Bavarian town of Donauwörth today before an admiring crowd of approximately 150 guests. Eurocopter... more
Military aviationBoeing's support to Australian F/A-18A/Bs continues
Williamtown, Australia - 30-month contract worth US$1.5 million
Boeing Defence Australia, subsidiary of American manufacturer, has been awarded a US$1.5 million contract for the provision of engineering support services for the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) fleet... more
Military aviationDassault Rafale: Thales will supply support to the avionics
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France - For 10 years plus five options of one year each
Thales yesterday announced that it has signed a contract with Dassault Aviation to provide maintenance support for avionics equipment on Rafale combat aircraft in service with the French armed forces.... more
Military aviationA-400M: fourth airplane assembly process begins
Toulouse, France - The MSN4 will have its maiden flight before the end of 2010
The final assembly process for the fourth Airbus Military A-400M military airlifter has already begun in Seville (Spain). The wings for the aircraft, known as MSN4, arrived at the final assembly line... more
Military aviationAustralia, training of RAAF C-17 pilots started
Amberley, Australia - The course includes 350 hours in 100 days
Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) today announced the beginning of the Globemaster III training course at RAAF Base Amberley. Two RAAF student pilots entered Pilot Initial Qualification... more
Military aviationGripen: Thai technicians in Sweden for initial maintenance course
Linköping, Sweden - It will last until the end of the year
A first group of Thai Air Force technicians have arrived in Sweden for their initial maintenance type conversion course on the Saab JAS-39 Gripen aircraft at the Swedish Armed Forces Technical school in... more
Military aviationSukhoi PAK FA, first flight completed
Moscow, Russia - Russian fifth generation fighter
The first flight of a prototype of Russia's advanced fighter of the 5th generation, the Sukhoi PAK-FA, has been successfully completed this morning in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The aircraft piloted by test-pilot... more
Military aviationMaiden flight of the B-52 CONECT
Edwards AFB, USA - With new Combat Network Communications Technology
Boeing announced yesterday that a B-52H Stratofortress upgraded with new communication technology has recently successfully accomplished its first test flight at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The... more
Military aviationF-35B: first flight of a RAF active service pilot
Patuxent River NAS, USA - At Patuxent River Naval Air Station
RAF Squadron Leader Steve Long of the Royal Air Force (RAF) has become the first active-duty service pilot from the United Kingdom to take to the skies in a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, also known... more
Military aviationTomorrow the first flight of Russian new fighter
Moscow, Russia - Sukhoi's PAK FA should enter into service in 2015
Russia's fifth generation fighter jet might take the sky tomorrow, according to a source within the manufacturer Sukhoi, quoted today by the news agency "RIA Novosti". The only known fifth generation... more
Military aviationBoeing gets long-term support contract for the Australian Wedgetails
Seattle, USA - Worth about US$ 600 million
Boeing has been awarded a five-year In-Service Support contract for Project Wedgetail, Australia's 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) program. The contract from Australia's Defence Materiel... more
Military aviationRolls-Royce extends its support to UK's Eurofighter jets
Bristol, UK - GBP 865 million until 2019
Rolls-Royce has signed a service contract worth GBP865 million (€ 984 million) with the UK Ministry of Defence to support the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) fleet of Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft which are pow... more
Military aviationFirst two upgraded P-3Cs for Pakistan delivered
Eagan, USA - Within a contract awarded to Lockheed Martin in 2006
Lockheed Martin has delivered the first two of seven upgraded P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan under the US Government's Foreign Military Sales program. This... more
Military aviationA-400M: France wants to keep it alive
London, UK - Other partners are skeptical, UK, Germany and Turkey in particular
Representatives from countries participating in the Airbus A-400M military transport aircraft programme met yesterday in London to discuss about the future of this costly and ambitious project. The seven... more
Military aviationFrance "Will do anything to save the A-400M"
Paris, France - Meeting today in London for programme-member countries
"France will do anything to save the A-400M project", Paris' defense minister, Herve Morin, said yesterday during the National Assembly. "It is a major programme for European defence", he stated, anticipating... more
Military aviationFirst Canadian C-130J unveiled
Marietta, USA - 17 of these aircraft will be delivered within the next two years
The first Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules produced for Canada yesterday left the company's paint facility in Marietta, USA. Canada's new fleet of 17 C-130Js will fly farther, faster, with more payload... more
Military aviationFourth KC-767 Tanker delivered to the Japanese defense
St. Louis, USA - It can also be used as a transport aircraft
Boeing yesterday announced that it has recently delivered the last of four KC-767 aerial refuelling tankers to the Japan Ministry of Defense, completing one of the International Tanker team's most significant... more
Military aviationIndia submits letter of request for potential Boeing C-17 Globemaster III order
Long Beach, Usa - To improve and reinforce its military tactical transport airplane capability
The Boeing Company announced that the U.S. government has received a Letter of Request from India's Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the Indian Air Force regarding the potential acquisition of 10 C-17 Globemaster... more
Military aviationSTOVL flight tests begin for the F-35B
Patuxent River NAS, USA - Turbine engaged for the first time
The Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) stealth fighter engaged its STOVL propulsion system in flight for the first time yesterday. The successful test is the first... more
Military aviationSix C-17 Globemaster III for the United Arab Emirates
St. Louis, USA - Deliveries between 2011 and 2012
Boeing and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force and Air Defence yesterday announced that the UAE has signed a contract for the acquisition of six Boeing C-17 Globemaster III advanced aircraft. The... more
Military aviationNew C-17 Globemaster III for the RAF
London, UK - It will enter service in March 2011
The UK Ministry of Defence yesterday announced that contracts have been signed for the RAF's seventh C-17 Globemaster III strategic transport aircraft destined to RAF Brize Norton. This airplane can operate... more
Military aviationAirbus: the A-400M programme will go on
Frankfurt, Germany - Reports of it being about to be closed denied
An Airbus spokesman stated today that the A-400M programme will go on, and it hopes that talks with governments might end by the end of January. The comment has been issued following reports by the newspaper... more
Military aviationThe second F-25B STOVL lands at Patuxent River
Patuxent River, USA - To start a four-year test campaign
The second Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) stealth fighter arrived at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, after successfully completing aerial refuelling en route... more
Military aviationSecond flight of the first A-400M
Seville, Spain - Three hours and ten minutes, departed from Seville
Airbus Military has completed the second flight of the new A-400M airlifter in a three-hour and ten minute flight of the first aircraft, known as MSN1, from Seville, Spain, conducted by experimental test... more
Military aviationMorocco orders 24 F-16 fighter jets
Washington, USA - Contract worth US$841.9 million
The Kingdom of Morocco has ordered 24 Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 52 fighter jets, worth overall US$841.9 million, within a previously signed deal between the north-African country and the government of... more
Military aviationUK approves purchase of third F-35B
London, UK - Confirming the country's commitment to the Joint Strike Fighter programme
The United Kingdom has received financial approval to purchase its third Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II operational test aircraft, reinforcing the UK's commitment to the Joint Strike Fighter programme. This... more
Military aviationRussia to introduce a stealth bomber between 2025 and 2030
Moscow, Russia - With technologies and materials that will make it hard to discover
Major general Anatoly Zhikharev, commander of Russian strategic aviation, today stated that Moscow will introduce a stealth capable bomber between 2025 and 2030, as reported by the news agency "RIA Novosti".... more
Military aviationUS Navy Secretary visits the F-35 line
Fort Worth, USA - The American naval forces will order 680 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft
US Navy Secretary Ray Mabus toured Lockheed Martin's F-35 facility for a preview of the Department of the Navy's first-ever stealth strike fighter. Secretary Mabus got a firsthand look at BF-2, the... more
Military aviationSukhoi delivers two Su-34s to the Russian Air Force
Moscow, Russia - The deal foresees the delivery of 32 aircraft by 2013
Sukhoi today announced that VP Chkalov Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPO) handed over to the Russian Air Force two batch-production Su-34 frontline fighter-bombers produced in the framework... more
Military aviationSecond Embraer 190 for the Brazilian government
São José dos Campos, Brazil - Capable to reach all the continent departing from Brasilia
Embraer has delivered the second E-190 jet to the Brazilian government. Like the first of this model, which was delivered in September of this year (see AVIONEWS), the aircraft is specially configured... more
Military aviationFirst flight test phase completed on the B-1 with upgraded avionics
Edwards AFB, USA - The second batch of trials will begin in April 2010
The first phase of flight test for a Boeing B-1 bomber upgraded with new digital avionics has been completed. The B-1 Fully Integrated Data Link (FIDL) flight test plan for Phase 1 included nine sorties... more
Military aviationNew EADS control system for Swiss military airports
Paris, France - For five military bases within 2016
EADS Defence & Security (DS) today announced that it will equip Swiss military airfields with a new military approach control system to ensure flight safety in the dense air traffic of Central Europe and... more
Military aviationSwedish defense orders Gripen spare parts
Stockholm, Sweden - Contract worth SEK200 million
Saab today announced that it has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) regarding spare parts for the current JAS-39 Gripen fleet. The order amounts to SEK 200 million... more
Military aviation7th C-17 Globemaster III for the RAF
Long Beach, USA - It will be deployed at Brize Norton base, England
Boeing and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence announced an agreement for the acquisition of a seventh C-17 Globemaster III for the Royal Air Force (RAF). Boeing is scheduled to deliver the aircraft... more
Military aviationFirst fighterbomber Eurofighters for the German Air Force
Nörvenich, Germany - Delivered to the 31th Wing
The German Air Force’s Fighter Bomber Wing 31 “Boelcke” has received today its first four Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. The Eurofighter Typhoons have been handed over in a ceremony at the Wing’s base, N... more
Military aviationSuper Hornet sustainment contract signed between Boeing and Australian government
Canberra, Australia - Worth US$20 million per year
The project to acquire Australia’s new fighter aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet, took another step forward today with the signing of the sustainment contract with Boeing. The Minister for Defence Personnel, M... more
Military aviationRolls-Royce to supply support to the Saudi Arabian Eurofighters
Derby, UK - First maintenance activities to be carried out in the country
Rolls-Royce yesterday announced that it has concluded contracts with BAE Systems to support the EJ200 engines powering the Eurofighter Typhoon fleet of the Royal Saudi Air Force. The two three-year contracts... more
Military aviationSukhoi delivers last batch of upgraded Su-24M2s to the Russian Air Force
Moscow, Russia - Works carried out at Novosibirsk facilities
The final batch of Su-24M2 bombers was handed over to the Russian Air Force after repair and modernization at the Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPO) in Novosibirsk. Thus NAPO has fulfilled... more
Military aviationOCCAR: "First flight of the A-400M is a very important contractual milestone"
Seville, Spain - Flight tests to last for the next two years
OCCAR (Organization for Joint Armament Cooperation) welcomed the first flight of the Airbus A-400M airlifter, which took place on Friday in Seville (see AVIONEWS). "The first flight of the A-400M -the... more
Military aviationAvio expressed its satisfaction for the first flight of the A-400M
Rome, Italy - The Italian company participates in the building of the engines
The Italian company Avio, which participates in the building of the Europrop International (EPI) TP400D engines for the A-400M airlifter, expressed its satisfaction for today's first flight of Airbus'... more