L-001, Denmark’s first F-35 Lightning II production aircraft recently flew its inaugural flight. Denmark is the fifth European NATO nation to fly and operate an F-35, strengthening NATO’s 5th generation airpower foundation. Denmark is joining four other European nations who already operate the F-35: the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy. Like the F-16 before it, the F-35 ...
Honeywell has secured a 4-year IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity) contract worth $476 million for new production and spare T55-GA-714A engines that power the US Army’s CH-47 Chinook helicopters. The award will ensure that the US Army’s Chinook fleet has spare engines to support future missions and available engines for ...
Lockheed Martin has successfully tested its next-generation Extended-Range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (ER GMLRS) munition in an 80-kilometer flight demonstration at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. During the flight test, the ER GMLRS round was fired from the US Army’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launcher, built by Lockheed ...
Within the Syracuse IV programme, Airbus has been awarded a 10-year framework agreement called Copernicus for the construction and upgrading of part of the ground segment for the telecommunications satellites used by the French Armed Forces. As part of Copernicus, the French Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) has placed an initial ...