All articles by James Drew – Page 26
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NewsPARIS: HAL selects Honeywell engine for Indian trainer prototype
Hindustan Aeronautics' HTT-40 trainer prototype will be powered by the Honeywell TPE331-12B turboprop engine, it has been announced in Paris.
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NewsPARIS: Lockheed, Raytheon and Bombardier form JSTARS team
Dovetailing on Northrop Grumman’s teaming announcement this week, Lockheed Martin has revealed that it is partnering with Raytheon and Bombardier to offer an “ultra-long range” Global Express-based joint surveillance target attack radar system (JSTARS) aircraft to the US Air Force.
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NewsPARIS: Pratt says ‘dangerous world’ could drive F-35 sales
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is noticeably absent at the Paris air show after the F-35B failed to arrive at Farnborough in 2014. But Pratt & Whitney and Lockheed Martin have spared no opportunity at Paris to talk up the fifth-generation fighter programme’s maturity and the prospects of for additional ...
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NewsPARIS: Northrop, L-3 and Gulfstream team for US JSTARS competition
Northrop Grumman, Gulfstream and L-3 Aerospace Systems have joined forces to capture the US Air Force’s multi-billion programme to recapitalise the aging fleet of E-8C joint surveillance target attack radar system (JSTARS) aircraft.
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NewsPARIS: Lockheed and Terma sign MOU laced with caveats
As Denmark prepares to select a fighter jet to replace its aging F-16s, Lockheed Martin and Terma have signed an agreement that secures the Danish firm’s continued participation on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme so long as the Lightning II is downselected.
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NewsPARIS: Pratt calculating savings from potential F-35 block buy
Pratt & Whitney is running the numbers on how much the Pentagon could potentially save on the propulsion side by block-buying the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and moving to a performance-based logistics arrangement (PBL).
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NewsPARIS: P&W F135 engine burns through accelerated mission trial
A 10-month “accelerated mission test” of Pratt & Whitney’s F135 engine has demonstrated its full-life capability after completing 5,200 engine cycles to replicated seven years and 1,200 sorties.
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PARIS: UTC to wrap up Sikorsky divorce by year’s end
After months of speculation, United Technologies Corporation has formally announced its intention to sell Sikorsky and exit the helicopter business.
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NewsPARIS: Boeing eyes F-15 modifications, extra Super Hornet sales
Boeing sees strong demand for F-15 Strike Eagle upgrades domestically and among Japan and South Korea, particularly for communications upgrades that would allow the fourth-generation fighter to share and fuse data with the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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NewsPARIS: Raytheon’s robust weapons offering at Paris packs punch
Raytheon Missile Systems has set up shop at the Paris Air Show with hopes of expanding its customer base for advanced weapons like the traditional advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM), AIM-9X sidewinder and joint standoff weapon, but also newly developed offerings like the small diameter bomb (SDB) II.
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PARIS: Boeing hunting Chinook sales to fill multiyear buy
Boeing is searching for about 35 Chinook CH-47F sales to fill the production options remaining on its second multiyear procurement contract with the US Army.
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NewsUSAF awards Raytheon $31M for first small diameter bomb II buy
The US Air Force has placed its first low-rate initial production order for Raytheon’s newly developed small diameter bomb II, securing the first 144 Lot 1 weapons of what is expected to be a minimum 17,000-bomb buy.
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NewsUS senate panel approves extra JSF, Super Hornet, Reaper buys
The US senate appropriations committee has approved a spending bill that buys more Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets, Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and General Atomics MQ-9 Reapers than requested by the government, even as Republicans and Democrats disagree on how to get around mandatory spending caps known as sequestration.
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NewsCull the ‘creep’: Report on why US weapon programmes blow budgets
In an attempt to discover why large weapons programmes like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter too frequently miss their development cost and schedule targets, the US Government Accountability Office has found lower-level requirements creep due to a lack of systems engineering expertise is generally to blame.
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NewsScorpion ready for buyers on aviation's biggest stage
When it comes to Textron AirLand’s Scorpion, “seeing really is believing” and more and more people are getting that opportunity as the company scours the globe in search of a launch customer for the subsonic, multirole jet.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: New US bomber competition heats up
In April, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu sent a quiet ripple through the American national security community, when he proposed restarting production of the former Soviet Union's most sophisticated Cold War bomber – the supersonic Tupolev Tu-160, or “Blackjack”.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: It's large and lethal, but is LRS-B a bomber?
The US Air Force is preparing to spend upwards of $60 billion on a large stealth aircraft that will eventually replace the Boeing B-1 Lancer, B-52 Stratofortress and complement the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit – but should it be labelled a bomber?
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NewsArmed MQ-1B crash blamed on wing control module
A General Atomics MQ-1B Predator crashed during a missile practice in the Nevada desert last June because of a right wing control module failure, not pilot error, a US Air Force accident investigation board has concluded.
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NewsUS approves possible $462M A-29 Super Tucano sale to Lebanon
Sierra Nevada Corporation could receive an order from Lebanon for six of its American-built A-29 Super Tucanos following the US government’s approval of a potential foreign military sale.
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NewsWP-3 ‘hurricane hunter’ trials Rolls-Royce T56 engine upgrade
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has validated the performance of the Rolls-Royce T56 Series 3.5 turboprop engine enhancement on its WP-3D Orion “hurricane hunter” in a 3h flight from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, last week.