Boeing Australia has signed a contract with the DMO to provide repair and refurbishment work for the RAAF’s F/A-18A/B Hornet fleet. The work will comprise the refurbishment of flight control surfaces, doors and panels for the ageing Hornet fleet at Boeing’s Component Repairs facility at Tullamarine in Melbourne, and includes the replacement of aluminium control
The US Navy has started testing a Distributed Targeting System (DTS) for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet at NAS China Lake in central California. The DTS will allow Super Hornet crews to better process multiple targeting information. The first stage of the test process will see an image exploitation processor and mass storage unit integrated with
The New Zealand government has come to an agreement with prime contractor L-3 Comm Spar and subcontractor Safe Air to complete the RNZAF’s C-130 upgrade program. The work comprises the replacement of the aircraft’s centre wing sections and a comprehensive avionics and self defence system upgrade. Work on the upgrade of the five aircraft had
Northrop Grumman has commenced construction of the fuselage of the first MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) version of the Global Hawk UAS at its Moss Point, Mississippi facility. The fuselage will be delivered to Northrop Grumman’s final assembly line at Palmdale in California early next year where it will be mated to the wings,
Lockheed Martin has successfully tested the latest version of its Hellfire air-to-surface missile range, the AGM-1114R ‘Romeo’. The new model features a multi-purpose warhead which covers the entire target set of the Hellfire range, rather than the previous need for dedicated blast fragmentation or anti-armour (HEAT) versions, and a UAS operator or helicopter pilot can
A contract awarded to Adagold Aviation for the provision of transport services to the ADF has been cleared of any irregularities following allegations by incumbent, Strategic Aviation, that Adagold received inside information on the tender requirements, The Age reports. Strategic had questioned what role former Strategic manager and SkyAirWorld CEO David Charlton had played in
