The World of Aviation

Boeing has signed an MoU with Aeronautics Defense Systems to jointly market the DA42 Dominator UAS, an unmanned ISR version of the Diamond DA42 light twin. “The Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) portion of the unmanned systems market is rapidly expanding as the world’s armed forces acquire a variety of vehicles for use in current

Boeing has announced that operational testing of the RAAF’s Vigilare command and control system had been completed at the Northern Region Operations Centre (NROC) at Tindal. The operational testing demonstrated the system’s ability to connect networked assets such as F/A-18 Hornets, AP-3C Orions, Navy frigates, and other sensors and data sources simultaneously. “This milestone is

Italy says it will not take up its share of the Tranche 3B production run of Eurofighters and instead will buy the F-35 JSF. Speaking at the Farnborough Airshow on July 20, Defence Minister Ignazio la Russa said Italy would cut 25 Eurofighters from its planned buy, leaving its total Eurofighter buy at 96. Although

The head of Russia’s military technology cooperation service, Alexander Fomine announced at the Farnborough Airshow that Vietnam has signed an agreement for 20 Sukhoi SU-30MK2 fighters.

The Farnborough Airshow once again returned to its glory days this year, with a number of major aircraft orders and commitments announced during the week from lessors and airlines. Following is a summary of orders and commitments made at Farnborough by manufacturer and type: Commitments * AIRBUS A320 FAMILY: LAN Airlines signed an MoU for

Bell Helicopters has announced a new partnership with BLR Aerospace to incorporate a new performance upgrade for the 412EP helicopter. The BLR FastFin system was designed as a tail rotor enhancement with dual strakes along the left side of the tail boom to control aircraft rotorwash and a reduced area vertical fin for increased usable