All articles by Stephen Trimble – Page 145
-
NewsSecond F-35B arrives at USN's Patuxent River base
The US Navy now has two F-35Bs at Patuxent River, Maryland, to complete a series of tests leading to the first transition from horizontal flight to a vertical...
-
NewsUSAF starts search for UH-1N replacement
The US Air Force has announced that it wants to start replacing 62 Vietnam-era UH-1Ns with up to 93 new helicopters after 2015. A "sources sought"...
-
NewsPassenger attack aboard Delta A330 fails
An attempted terrorist attack today aboard an Airbus A330-300 with Delta Air Lines livery failed and the aircraft made a safe landing as scheduled at Detroit...
-
News
Electric Lightning crash prompts safety, ejection seat checks
South Africa investigators are urging authorities to evaluate all ex-military aircraft flying on the civil register and mandate immediate safety inspections...
-
News
A400M clears normal flight envelope on 2nd flight: Airbus
The Airbus A400M has cleared its entire normal flight envelope on its second test flight completed earlier today, the manufacturer says. Coming 12...
-
NewsLockheed receives F-16 contract for Morocco
Lockheed has been awarded a nearly $841.9 million contract by the US government to deliver 24 F-16 Block 52 fighters under a previously announced deal with...
-
News
C-17 sale to UAE moves one step closer
The United Arab Emirates is one step closer to signing a contract to buy four Boeing C-17 Globemaster IIIs after 10 months of price negotiations. The...
-
News
Boeing hails WTO warning by Congress
Boeing has praised 125 US lawmakers for signing a letter urging the US government to take action after the World Trade Organization (WTO) releases an "imminent"...
-
NewsHacked Predator video no concern: USAF intel chief
A senior US Air Force official says that insurgents did not compromise the military's intelligence system by tapping into video feeds transmitted by Predator...
-
News
F-35 'deeply concerns' US senators on cost and schedule
Two US senators - Carl Levin and John McCain - have expressed deep concern about the Lockheed Martin F-35 programme's "growing costs and apparent delays",...
-
NewsHouse passes spending bill that adds 10 C-17s, restores F-35 alternate engine
The US House of Representatives has passed a $636.4 billion defence spending bill that rescues the F-35 alternate engine and Boeing C-17 from termination...
-
News
X-51A WaveRider first flight delayed until February
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has pushed back first flight for the Boeing X-51A WaveRider to February, a four-month delay caused by the unavailability...
-
News
Elbit to consider launching two largest UAVs
Israel-based Elbit Systems could launch two new unmanned air vehicles to challenge in markets now dominated by the General Atomics Predator B and Israel...
-
News
EADS builds case for A400M sale to USAF
Three factors could sway the US Air Force within five years to buy the Airbus Military A400M transport, believes EADS North America chief executive Sean...
-
News
US Army rethinks Fire Scout, STUAS and unmanned cargo aircraft
US Army training and doctrine staff have completed a new analysis that reconsiders the service's commitment to the Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned...
-
News
C-5M passes key test ahead of full-rate production decision
The more powerful and reliable Lockheed Martin C-5M Galaxy passed a critical test in November, proving the US Air Force can finally bypass relay points or...
-
NewsUSAF reveals RQ-170 Sentinel is new stealth UAV
A stealthy unmanned aircraft system developed by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division has secretly joined the US Air Force inventory. The USAF confirms...
-
NewsBoeing flies AH-64 with Block III power upgrades
Boeing has completed the first flight test of three critical technologies for the US Army's AH-64 Apache Apache Block III upgrade programme ...
-
News
US Marine Corps reveals details of cargo-moving unmanned air system
The US Marine Corps has revealed new details of a nascent strategy to deploy next year an unmanned air system dedicated to moving cargo to forward operating...
-
NewsEXCLUSIVE: Raytheon adapts AIM-9X for air-to-ground mission
Raytheon has adapted the heat-seeking AIM-9X to strike moving targets on the ground or in the water ...