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Marine Corps experimenting with sharing F-35’s data with soldiers
The US Marine Corps is experimenting with several ways to provide soldiers on the ground a link to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information gathered by the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and other unmanned aircraft on a tablet computer.
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AeroVironment demonstrates drone guiding missile attack
AeroVironment demonstrated the ability to use an unmanned aerial vehicle’s camera and sensors to automatically guide a missile drone into a fast-moving unmanned boat.
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F-35's 11-year flight test phase comes to an end
A Lockheed Martin F-35C on 11 April completed the final test flight of the programme’s system development and demonstration (SDD) phase, capping off an 11-year-long saga spanning 9,200 sorties and 17,000 flight hours for three major variants.
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Pentagon refuses delivery of F-35s over repair dispute
The US Department of Defence is refusing delivery of F-35 Lightning IIs over a dispute with manufacturer Lockheed Martin about who should pay for repair costs to fix a production error on the aircraft.
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Vice Adm Winter downplays reorganisation of F-35 programme
Vice Admiral Mat Winter downplayed the reorganization of his office, the F-35 Lightning Joint Programme Office, in remarks at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Maryland on 11 April.
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Israel considers packaging V-22 with heavy-lift helicopter purchase
Israel has revived discussions with the US government over a potential acquisition of Bell Boeing V-22 Ospreys as the programme looks abroad to fill vacant production capacity.
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Boeing's 100th P-8 enters final assembly
The hundredth Boeing P-8 entered final assembly in Renton, Washington in March.
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JPO to hand F-35 management to services
The Department of Defence plans to eventually divide management of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II programme between two offices: one managed by the US Navy and Marine Corps, and another led by the US Air Force. The Joint Programme Office, which currently handles the fighter programme, will ultimately be ...
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AAS-equipped P-8A could replace E-8C
The US Navy's P-8A Poseidon could pick up a new mission if the US Air Force is allowed to follow through on plans to cancel a replacement for the Northrop Grumman E-8C JSTARS.
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Serbia closes on new helicopter orders
Serbia has begun talks with Russia over the acquisition of four Mil Mi-17 transport helicopters and the same number of Mi-35 attack rotorcraft.
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Lockheed's MQ-25 reuses USN fighter engines, landing gear
New details of Lockheed Martin’s bid for the MQ-25 Stingray contract reveal a flying wing unmanned tanker with several key components re-used from aircraft already on board the US Navy’s aircraft carriers.
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INTERVIEW: Taking command of an aircraft carrier
Capt Douglas Verissimo, is commanding officer for aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson
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India re-opens competition to supply 110 fighters
A global competition to sell more than 100 fighters to the Indian air force re-opened for the third time in a decade on 6 April.
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Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet production line busy until 2025
Boeing said its F/A-18 Super Hornet production line has work until 2025 thanks to purchases of dozens of aircraft by the US Navy and the Kuwaiti Air Force – a change in fortunes for a platform that was supposed to be obsolete by now.
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Boeing receives first Super Hornet for service life modification
The first F/A-18 Super Hornet scheduled to undergo service life modification arrived at Boeing’s St. Louis, Missouri facilities on 5 April.
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Phantom Works selects Rolls-Royce turbofan to power MQ-25 bid
Boeing’s MQ-25 unmanned aerial vehicle prototype is powered by a Rolls-Royce AE 3007N turbofan, Boeing disclosed on 5 April.
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Potential MQ-4C sale to Germany moves forward
Northrop Grumman’s long courtship with the Germany’s requirement for a high-altitude unmanned air system took another step toward a contract on 5 February.
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Boeing tankers refuel each other in KC-46 milestone test
Boeing announced that its KC-46 Pegasus aerial tanker programme completed its fuel on-load testing, part of its overall Supplemental Type Certificate, by successfully transferring 146,000 pounds of fuel from one KC-46 to another KC-46 during flight.
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Saab offers AEL wide area display for Gripen E buyers
Brazilian-made wide area and head-up displays for the Saab Gripen E/F will be offered to all customers of the single-engined fighter as a potential cockpit upgrade, says Mikael Franzén, head of Business Unit, Gripen Brazil.
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Colombian air force chief pushes for more Black Hawks
The Colombian air force’s appetite for the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk has not waned five months after the government in Bogota signed an agreement ending a 50-year-old conflict with FARC guerrilla fighters.