The keel for the Navy’s first amphibious Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD), HMAS Canberra, was laid last week at shipbuilder Navantia’s yards in Ferrol, Spain. The vessel is the first of two LHDs to be acquired under Project JP2048 for the support of deployed forces ashore and for regional disaster relief work. Navantia has been contracted
The US Navy has proposed a delay to its EP-X program to replace its small fleet of EP-3E Aries electronic and signals intelligence (ELINT/SIGINT) aircraft as part of a strategy to save billions of dollars in its budget over the next decade.
A RAAF Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft commenced flare system testing over the Hood Canal near Seattle on September 28. The aircraft is being accompanied by a Boeing T-33 chase aircraft with testing scheduled to run to October 15.
French company Helisim has unveiled its new NH 90 simulator at the Eurocopter facility in Marignane in France. The new simulator will be used by French and Australian pilots first. It is the model upon which manufacturer Thales will base the two simulators ordered by the Australian Army for its MRH 90 fleet. Helisim is
The Global Hawk high altitude long endurance (HALE) UAV is still very much on the cards for the RAAF despite the unmanned element of the Air 7000 AP-3C Orion replacement program being pushed back earlier this year in favour of the manned replacement. Speaking in an interview with The Australian last week, Chief of Air
The Commonwealth has announced that it will cancel the major elements of Project Air 5416, the electronic warfare self protection (EWSP) upgrade of Army’s Black Hawk helicopters. The project is based around a preliminary EWSP upgrade and was to be followed by the fitting of the BAE Systems Australia designed ALR-2002 radar warning receiver (RWR).
