GE/RR Fighter Engine Team Begin Testing of production-configuration F136 Engine

Posted at: Tue Feb 3rd, 2009

EVENDALE, OHIO - The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team has begun testing its first production-configuration F136 engine for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft a month ahead of contract schedule, a major milestone in the development ...

Boeing Receives $45M Follow-on Contract to Upgrade B-1 Bomber Avionics

Posted at: Tue Feb 3rd, 2009

LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 03, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today said it has received a $45 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade avionics software on the B-1 long-range heavy bomber. The award is Sustainment Block...

Boeing, US Navy Deliver Proposal to Equip Brazil's Air Force With Super Hornets

Posted at: Tue Feb 3rd, 2009

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3, 2009 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Navy on Feb. 2 delivered a proposal to the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) offering the advanced, multirole F/A-18E/F Super Hornet as part of Brazil's F-X2 fighter aircraft com...

Gripen NG tender for Brazil

Posted at: Tue Feb 3rd, 2009

2/2/2009 | Today Saab handed over a tender for 36 Gripen Next Generation to the Brazilian Air Force Air Command. The tender is an answer to the formal Request for Proposal that was issued in the autumn 2008.

German Air Force Take Eurofighter Typhoon to Aero India 2009

Posted at: Tue Feb 3rd, 2009

For the first time, the Luftwaffe will participate in an air show in Asia with fighter aircraft. AERO INDIA 2009 will take place from the 11th to 15th February, 2009, at Air Force Station Yelahanka, near Bangalore/India. Four EUROF...

Russia, Belarus sign joint air defense agreement

Posted at: Tue Feb 3rd, 2009

MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow and Minsk signed on Tuesday an agreement on the joint protection of the Russia-Belarus Union State's airspace and the creation of an integrated regional air defense network. The document was signed at a meeting of the Union State Supreme Cou...