Latest Defence Helicopters news – Page 84
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Seoul gears up for ASW helicopter competition
Seoul plans to issue a request for proposals in May for 12 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopters under its Maritime Operations Helicopter (MOH) competition.
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ANALYSIS: Vanilla Aircraft eyes 10-day flight and first customer
Ten years after leaving stable jobs at major aerospace manufacturers and thousands of engineering hours later, the founding team of Vanilla Aircraft is on the verge of testing their vision of a long-endurance, diesel engine-powered drone. The company plans to fly its VA001 without refuelling for more than 10 days ...
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State Department clears $1.2 billion sale of Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawks to Mexico
The State Department cleared the possible sale of eight Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Mexico for $1.2 billion on 19 April.
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USAF eyes more orders as B-21 finishes preliminary design review
Northrop Grumman has finished preliminary design review of its B-21 Raider stealth bomber.
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US diplomat threatens Turkey's F-35 role in S-400 spat
A senior US diplomat has threatened to use the Lockheed Martin F-35 programme as a retaliatory tool against Turkey for acquiring a sophisticated air defence system from Russia.
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Trump Administration relaxes policy on armed UAV exports
The Trump Administration loosened restrictions on the marketing and sale of armed unmanned air vehicles by US aerospace manufacturers to foreign nations on 19 April.
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New software flaw requires FAA intervention to avoid KC-46 schedule slip
A newly-discovered software flaw could trigger another schedule delay for the Boeing KC-46A Pegasus unless the US Federal Aviation Administration approves a temporary waiver from certification requirements.
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USAF awards Lockheed Martin $928 million contract for hypersonic cruise missile
Huntsville, Alabama-based Lockheed Martin Space will develop the US Air Force’s first hypersonic cruise missile under a new contract awarded on 18 April.
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Dynetics wins DARPA’s Gremlins programme
Dynetics was selected for phase 3 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Gremlins programme, an effort to launch and retrieve unmanned aerial vehicles from an aircraft.
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DOD reveals F-35 multiyear procurement strategy to start in 2021
The Department of Defense has quietly revealed a long-term plan for signing a series of cost-saving, multi-year procurement contracts to buy a total of nearly 2,000 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II starting in Fiscal 2021.
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F-22 Raptor skids across runway at Navy’s Top Gun school
A Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor skidded on its belly across the runway of NAS Fallon near Reno, Nevada on 16 April after a takeoff mishap.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Sikorsky pressing on with S-97 in pursuit of Army scout replacement
According to test pilot lore, when Sikorsky tried flying its first advancing blade concept on the experimental S-69 rotorcraft – a system with two stacked blades rotating in opposite directions– the machine jackhammered so roughly that it rattled loose a gold crown in the pilot’s mouth. Sikorsky cannot confirm that ...
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General Atomics demos Wii-like deck-handling system for MQ-25
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems demonstrated aircraft carrier deck-handling controls for its MQ-25 tanker bid using a pair of motion-sensing director wands and an Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle as a stand-in for its yet-to-be-built prototype.
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JASSM-ER makes combat debut against Syrian chemical weapons facilities
US, French and British aircraft fired several cruise missiles at chemical weapons research and production facilities in Syria on 13 April, with the action including the combat debut of the Lockheed Martin AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Extended-Range (JASSM-ER).
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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.