Lockheed Martin has proclaimed a successful test flight and verification year for weapons integration following the successful employment of a GBU-32 JDAM from an F-35B’s internal weapons bay against a fixed ground test target. The F-35B aircraft, BF-18, launched from the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base was piloted by US Marine
Even as the US Navy celebrated the Boeing F/A-18 Hornet’s 35th anniversary with the fleet at a ceremony at Naval Air Station Patuxent River this week, public debate remains around the platform’s future. Boeing is slated to continue the F/A-18 production line until the end of 2016, unless further orders are placed by the US
The government has extended the Heron Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) deployment in Afghanistan until July 2014. Heron has been operating in Afghanistan since January 2010 from Kandahar Air Field, providing Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) support to the ADF in Uruzgan province and southern Afghanistan, and was expected to return to Australia at the completion
The Royal Australian Navy has taken ceremonial delivery of its first two MH-60R ‘Romeo’ Seahawk helicopters in a ceremony at Lockheed Martin’s Owego, New York facility on Tuesday. The first two of 24 MH-60 Romeos being acquired under AIR 9000 Phase 8 to replace the S-70B Seahawk and the cancelled SH-2G Seasprite capability were handed
European aerospace and defence firm EADS has announced a restructuring plan for its future Airbus Defence and Space division (Airbus DS) that will see 5,800 jobs cut through to the end of 2016. The announcement follows a decision by the company’s board of directors in July this year to consolidate the defence and space businesses
The Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) Air Lift Group has marked a change of command with a parade at RAAF Base Richmond. Air Commodore Warren McDonald assumed command of the group on December 6, having most recently served as Director General Capability Planning in Air Force Headquarters in Canberra. The outgoing commander, Air Commodore Gary
