Discovery returns home

Posted at: Mon Jul 17th, 2006

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- Commander Steve Lindsey landed the space shuttle Discovery at Florida's Kennedy Space Center Monday morning, ending the shuttle's nearly flawless 13-day mission to the international space station.

Air Force increases tanker order

Posted at: Mon Jul 17th, 2006

BATH, England -- The stakes have gone up considerably in the competition to supply the U.S. Air Force with air-refueling tankers. Instead of an initial buy of 100 tankers, the Air Force wants 189, which would mean considerably more work, and probably many more jobs, for The Boeing Co....

Northrop Grumman Reveals First Advanced Hawkeye Fuselage

Posted at: Mon Jul 17th, 2006

BETHPAGE, N.Y., July 17, 2006 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has mated the major subassemblies of the first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye test aircraft at its St. Augustine, Fla., manufacturing center into a single fuselage structure, taking the E-2D program another milestone closer to the sched...

Paveway II hat trick for Typhoon

Posted at: Mon Jul 17th, 2006

Wales, United Kingdom. - The Eurofighter Typhoon development programme continues to notch up the successes with Instrumented Production Aircraft (IPA) 1, flown by BAE Systems Typhoon Project Test Pilot Mark Bowman, performing the first releases of UK Paveway II Laser Guided Bombs.

New BAE Systems’ corrosion sensor wins JSF contract

Posted at: Mon Jul 17th, 2006

Farnborough, United Kingdom. - A new corrosion monitoring system developed by BAE Systems has been down selected by the F-35 JSF programme team. The F-35 JSF team concluded that the Sentinel system, a cooperative progamme between BAE Systems’ Advanced Technology Centre (ATC)and...

60 Russian enterprises to participate in Farnborough airshow

Posted at: Mon Jul 17th, 2006

MOSCOW, July 17 (RIA Novosti) - Over 60 Russian defense industry companies will present their products at the 2006 Farnborough International Airshow starting Monday, with the latest MiG fighter in the center of Russia's exposition, a defense-cooperation agency said Wednesday.

UK govt set to approve new Nimrod contract - report

Posted at: Mon Jul 17th, 2006

LONDON (AFX) - The UK government is set to approve the production of twelve revamped Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, according to The Sunday Times. The newspaper did not name its source for the story, but said the government is expected to give the project the go-ahead at the Farnbo...

Rafale, the French fighter, scrambles for export orders

Posted at: Mon Jul 17th, 2006

PARIS Riddle: Which combat aircraft outperforms its competitors in dogfights, is frequently classed first on technical merit in international tenders, is capable of covering a broad spectrum of air missions and is competitively priced, but has yet to win a single export order from a foreign air forc...

First of 28 Gripen fighters arrives in SA

Posted at: Mon Jul 17th, 2006

The first Gripen jet fighter was off-loaded at the Cape Town docks on Sunday and towed to Ysterplaat airforce base. Built in Sweden by Saab Aerospace, the Gripen is the first of 28 South Africa has bought as part of the controversial multi-billion rand arms deal.