Hawker Beechcraft Corporation provided an update on its Beechcraft AT-6 light attack aircraft program at the NBAA Convention in Orlando on October 20. The company has been flying an AT-6 demonstrator version of its T-6 advanced trainer with a view to selling the aircraft to the US and other countries as an economical light attack/counter
Denmark’s Defence Minister, Soren Gade, has announced that a major fighter order planned for this year will be deferred because the country has failed to come to a decision on the successful bidder. Denmark currently operates 62 F-16AMs which it bought in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and will choose between the Lockheed Martin
The USAF has given the go-ahead to Northrop Grumman to fit an all new advanced radar to its remaining fleet of 20 B-2 stealth bombers. The upgrade will see a new advanced electronically scanned array (AESA) radar fitted to the fleet under the Radar Modernization Program (RMP). The new radar will not only add new
The US Navy’s Northrop Grumman Global Hawk demonstrator for its planned Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program has returned to the US after an eight month deployment to the Middle East. The demonstrator, a former USAF RQ-4A Block 10 development aircraft, was based in the Middle East performing operational maritime surveillance and other missions as
The USAF has given Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft (ACCA) technology demonstrator the designation the X-55A. The one-off ACCA, which first flew in June, uses the wings, engines and empennage of a Dornier 328JET mated to an all-new composite structure fuselage, using just 300 new parts to replace more than 3000 original parts, and
Any Australian purchase of the MH-60R ‘Romeo’ naval helicopter would be accompanied by a A$1 billion ‘Australian Industry Capability’ package, while the aircraft could be available for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2011, ‘Team Romeo’ officials told media in Canberra on October 22. The Lockheed Martin/Sikorsky MH-60R is one of two contenders for the
