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France, Germany Order Rheinmetall’s Mk82-EP Aircraft Bomb

France, Germany Order Rheinmetall’s Mk82-EP Aircraft Bomb

Rheinmetall’s advanced MK-82-EP general purpose aircraft bomb has recently scored major successes in France and Germany. France’s procurement authority, the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), has already placed the first serial production orders for the MK82-EP, which are earmarked for the Mira…
Boeing Completes Round of Autonomous Teaming Flights

Boeing Completes Round of Autonomous Teaming Flights

AUSTRALIA — Boeing recently completed flight tests with five high-performance surrogate jets operating autonomously in a team at the new Queensland Flight Test Range in Cloncurry, Australia.

Boeing’s advanced autonomy technology, including on-board command and control and data sharing capabilit…

DGA Comments French Order for 3 E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes

DGA Comments French Order for 3 E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes

Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, approved on November 4, 2020 the acquisition of three, E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early warning and control aircraft.

Led by the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA), this acquisition will be made under a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreement with the U…

US Navy Selects L3Harris for Second Phase of UAV Demonstration

US Navy Selects L3Harris for Second Phase of UAV Demonstration

ARLINGTON, Texas — The U.S. Navy has selected L3Harris Technologies to participate in phase two of a demonstration to identify and evaluate unmanned aerial systems capable of operating in austere deployed environments without additional support systems.

L3Harris was one of two teams selected by…

US Army Gets Closer to Self-Adjusting Turbine Engines

US Army Gets Closer to Self-Adjusting Turbine Engines

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — A team of U.S. Army and academic researchers developed a novel design to automatically adjust aircraft rotor blade positions while already in-flight, a tactic that could improve turbine engine performance.

Researchers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Develop…

Boeing Starts Production of T-7A Ground-based Training System

Boeing Starts Production of T-7A Ground-based Training System

ST. LOUIS — The U.S. Air Force is one step closer to receiving its next-generation trainer as Boeing started producing the T-7A Red Hawk’s “real-as-it-gets” ground-based training system (GBTS).

Boeing teams are currently assembling the first two weapons systems trainers and an operational fligh…


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