Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload Takes to Air on First U-2 Flight

Posted at: Mon Jan 8th, 2007

PALMDALE, Calif., Jan. 4, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP), a next generation signals intelligence sensor for the U.S. Air Force, recently took to the air on its first flight aboard the ...

Russian companies broke no international norms - defense minister

Posted at: Mon Jan 8th, 2007

VLASIKHA (Moscow region), January 6 (RIA Novosti) - The three Russian companies the U.S. imposed sanctions on did not violate international norms, Russia's defense minister said Saturday. "As I head the export control commission, I state with all responsibility that all the three Rus...

Korea, US to Confer on Global Hawk Surveillance Plane Sale

Posted at: Mon Jan 8th, 2007

The chief of South Korea's weapons acquisition agency will meet senior U.S. defense officials to discuss the purchase of unmanned aerial vehicles, the Defense Ministry said yesterday. Lee Seon-hee, director of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), began a week-long v...

Saudis expect Eurofighters 'soon'

Posted at: Mon Jan 8th, 2007

Saudi Arabia has said it will start taking deliveries of 72 Eurofighter jets from UK defence company BAE Systems "very soon". The comments come a month after the Serious Fraud Office controversially dropped an investigation into a 1980s...

F/A-18E/F Block 2 Super Hornets Flying at Naval Air Station Oceana

Posted at: Mon Jan 8th, 2007

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 08, 2007 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has delivered the 11th F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block 2 to Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Va. The aircraft are equipped with the ground-breaking APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) r...

Northrop Grumman Receives $256 Million Contract for Air Force E-10A

Posted at: Mon Jan 8th, 2007

MELBOURNE, Fla., Jan. 8, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) received a $256 million contract for the E-10A Multi-Sensor Command and Control aircraft. The contract covers design and analysis of the E-10A Technology Development Program (TDP) through Initial Design Review,...