Air News & Articles

Full-Scale Fatigues Test on MQ-9B Complete

GA-ASI has completed the full-scale fatigue test, simulating the aircraft’s design service through the application of repeated structural loading on the assembled airframe

Jan 05, 2024
Manufacturing Begins for Full-Scale Active Flow Control X-Plane

Aurora Flight Sciences’ X-65 is purpose-designed to test and demonstrate the benefits of active flow control at tactically relevant scale and flight conditions

Jan 04, 2024
MilDef Wins Strategic Hardware Order

MilDef has also been entrusted to deliver tactical IT to new strategic projects in both land and air defense to the same unnamed NATO nation

Dec 29, 2023
Concurrent Technologies Secures Key VME Contract Win

Concurrent Technologies to supply VME Boards to major Defence Prime Contractor, strengthening the Company’s position in a substantial market

Dec 21, 2023
British Army Drones Flown in Japan

A wide range of British Army units flew the drones in Japan to direct mortar fire during live firing training, aiming to refine the UAS capabilities, among other goals

Dec 21, 2023
PDW’s Heavy-Lift Quadcopter Makes Blue UAS List

Inclusion in the Department of Defense (DoD) Blue unmanned aerial system (UAS) program enables a more efficient approval process for military applications of the portable, long-endurance C100 drone

Dec 20, 2023
Drone-Based Threat Detection Solution Launched

Pearson Engineering’s Threat-Sense can detect anti-tank and anti-personnel mines and indicate to operators in varying environmental conditions where threats are present

Dec 19, 2023
Royal Malaysian Air Force Reinforces Air Surveillance with New Ground Master 400a Radar

Thales' Ground Master 400α, a field-proven long-range radar, will provide the Royal Malaysian Air Force with superior situational awareness

Dec 19, 2023
Belgium Presented with its First F-35A Lightning II

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 will connect assets across domains to increase situational awareness for Belgium and its key European partners

Dec 18, 2023
Demonstration of Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet with Rotating Detonation Combustion

New architecture with Rotating Detonation Combustion (RDC) could power super-efficient hypersonic vehicles with longer range that exceed MACH 5 or >4,000 MPH

Dec 18, 2023
Italy, Japan and UK Sign Government Agreement on GCAP

Italy, Japan and the UK signed the treaty, marking an important agreement in the shared design and development of a next generation fighter aircraft by 2035

Dec 18, 2023
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