News of June 15, 2009
House Panel Restores GE-Rolls Royce F136 Alternate Engine Program
Posted at: Mon Jun 15th, 2009
Last Friday, the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee once again restored funding for the F-35 Lightning II's alternative engine, the F136 which is being developed by General Electric and Rolls-Royce.
Sagem and Stemme unveil Patroller long-endurance surveillance UAV
Posted at: Mon Jun 15th, 2009Le Bourget, June 15, 2009 - At the Paris Air Show today, Sagem (SAFRAN group) and Stemme are unveiling Patroller™, a new dual long-endurance surveillance drone for both defense and security missions.Developed within a French-German industrial partnership, Patroller™ combin...
Enhanced Global Hawk to be rolled out June 25
Posted at: Mon Jun 15th, 2009
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Air Force and Northrop Grumman officials will roll out the first Block 40 RQ-4 Global Hawk Thursday, June 25 at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif.
Boeing Advanced Tactical Laser Fires High-Power Laser in Flight
Posted at: Mon Jun 15th, 2009
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 15, 2009 – The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Air Force on June 13 successfully fired the high-power laser aboard the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft for the first time in flight.
Bell Boeing Team Awarded Contract for Next Phase of V-22 Osprey Support
Posted at: Mon Jun 15th, 2009
AMARILLO, Texas, June 15, 2009 – The Bell Boeing Program Office announced today that it has been awarded Phase 1.5 of a two-phase Joint Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to support the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor...
EADS Defence & Security highlights Advanced UAV in full scale
Posted at: Mon Jun 15th, 2009
At the Paris Air Show 2009, EADS Defence & Security (DS) presents the mock-up of the the latest unmanned aerial system: the Advanced UAV, the proposed Franco-German-Spanish UAV programme for the development and production of a fully autonomous system for Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acq...
