MBDA has completed a series of trials to expand the weapons carriage capabilities of the French Navy’s Dassault Rafale M fighter from the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The two-week campaign involved the company’s Meteor and Mica air-to-air, Scalp EG cruise, AM39 Exocet Block 2 anti-ship and ASMP-A nuclear missiles.
Source: Flight International
Factory work is underway in Marietta, Georgia on the first of three C-130J airframes that Lockheed Martin will deliver to the US Navy as E-130s – a new type meant to replace ageing Boeing E-6B Mercury airborne command post jets.
The UK has conducted a first air-launched guided firing of MBDA’s Spear lightweight cruise missile, from a BAE Systems-operated Eurofighter Typhoon testbed.
Ottawa will station a portion of its new Airbus A330-based aerial refuelling fleet at Edmonton International airport in Alberta province, expanding upon the existing tanker base in Trenton, Ontario.
