BAE Systems Australia has been awarded a contract to upgrade the Australian Army’s Advanced Air Defence Simulator (AADS). The $5 million contract will see the facility, located at the 16th Air Defence Regiment’s facility at Woodside near Adelaide, equipped with new projectors, upgraded computers and software, and other enhancements under Project Land 19 Phase 2B.
The first Boeing AH-64D Apache Block III structures test aircraft completed its first flight at Boeing’s Mesa, Arizona, facility on November 23. The test aircraft is equipped with new composite blades, a composite horizontal stabiliser, a split-torque face gear transmission and uprated engines. The upgrades follow earlier efforts to enhance the Apache’s networking ability and
Northrop Grumman has re-stated its threat to not bid its A330 based KC-30 for the USAF’s troubled KC-X tanker program unless significant changes are made to the RFP conditions, according to a report by Reuters. In a letter dated December 1 and sent to Ashton Carter, the Pentagon’s undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, Air
The first Boeing P-8A Poseidon systems testbed has been fitted with its Raytheon APY-10 maritime radar at Boeing Field in Seattle. The aircraft, dubbed T-2, the P-8 program’s primary mission system test aircraft, will test and verify the APY-10’s and other systems’ performance starting in 2010.
Costs for the troubled Airbus A400M military transport program could rise by as much as 37 per cent, according to French newspaper Les Echos. Already delayed more than three years due to technical and industrial difficulties, a report from auditing firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers says the seven original partner nations are now faced with an increase in
India has grounded its fleet of about 100 Su-30 and Su-30MKI strike fighters for the second time this year for inspections following a crash caused by an apparent engine fire. The crash, which occurred on November 30, is the second this year following an incident on April 30 in which a pilot was killed. Both
