Monthly Archive: Novembre 2021

SEATTLE — The Federal Aviation Administration this summer found Boeing had appointed engineers to oversee airplane certification work on behalf of the agency who lack the required technical expertise and often “are not meeting FAA expectations.”

An FAA letter of complaint to Boeing last week, t…

Hypersonic weapons that can fly five times the speed of sound will add $21.5 billion to the Navy’s budget and $7 billion to the Army’s in coming years, according to an estimate compiled by the Pentagon’s independent cost assessment office.

It’s the first authoritative evaluation of how much the s…

Between 16 and 24 F-16s, which still have years left on the clock, will be sold in anticipation of their controversial replacement, F-35s, that previously raised eyebrows over their overblown maintenance costs and elevated noise levels.

After the turn of the year, the Danish Ministry of Defence’s…

GAVIÃO PEIXOTO, Brazil — Embraer successfully concluded the Hungary Critical Design Review (CDR) and began the structural assembly of its first KC-390 Millennium. A ceremony held at Embraer’s Gavião Peixoto facility, witnessed by Hungarian government and Embraer representatives, marked the start o…

ISTANBUL — A kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will be used to counter and neutralize other drone-borne threats successfully conducted its maiden flight and will be ready for delivery at the beginning of 2022, according to company officials.

The product, named the Fedai, was created i…