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Boeing closes on interim US Army Apache deal
Extra 17 new-build helicopters on cards as Congress considers supplemental funding
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NASA announces Commercial Orbital Transportation Services demonstration programme winners
NASA has announced that Space Exploration Technologies and Rocketplane-Kistler have won space act agreements for the agency's four-year $500 million Commerical Orbital Transportation Services demonstration programme.
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Want to see an Avro Vulcan fly again? You'll need to pay up
Team battling to get delta-winged bomber back in the air faces funding crisis
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Boeing issues ‘stop work’ notices on C-17 Globemaster line, signalling end to California aircraft manufacturing
Boeing is announcing today that is to issue "stop work" notices to long-lead parts suppliers for the C-17 Globemaster III, marking a "break in production" and the first step towards the full closure of the last major California aircraft assembly line
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Lockheed Martin reveals plans for unmanned F-35 JSF among other new UAV concepts
An optionally-manned F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is among designs being studied by Lockheed Martin as it races to catch up with other unmanned aircraft system developers.
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Iranian-made Ababil-T Hezbollah UAV shot down by Israeli fighter in Lebanon crisis
Debris indicates intercepted vehicle was modified HESA Ababil-T twin-tail vehicle
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Turkey puts IAI Phantom talks on hold as Lebanon war raises anti-Israeli sentiment
The Turkish ministry of defence has halted negotiations with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) on a potential follow-on programme to upgrade an additional 40-50 Turkish air force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms.
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Boeing and US Army to assess future variants of AH-64D Apache Longbow
With the contract to develop the Block III upgrade for the AH-64D Apache Longbow signed, Boeing and the US Army have begun assessing technologies - including directed-energy weapons - that could be incorporated in future modernisation programmes.
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US Navy warms to MQ-8B Fire Scout UTAV, awarding Northrop Grumman $136m final SDD contract
Northrop Grumman is moving into the final stages of systems development and demonstration (SDD) of the MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical take-off and landing tactical unmanned air vehicle (VTUAV) after winning a $136 million modification to an earlier US Navy contract.
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US Navy T-45 Goshawk jet trainers to get virtual mission training system synthetic radars
Boeing is to equip the US Navy's T-45 Goshawk jet trainer with a synthetic radar system. The company plans to launch a competition by year-end to develop the virtual mission training system (VMTS), which will use a digital datalink network to exchange GPS positions between aircraft and drive a synthetic ...