The CH-53K King Stallion heavy transport helicopter successfully completed an extensive series of tests on a helicopter carrier of the US Navy at the end of June 2020. The tests, which took place over a period of around 14 days in the Atlantic Ocean, included taking off and landing from various deck…

SAN DIEGO –– Cubic Corporation today announced its Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS) business division was awarded a $950 million ceiling indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS).

The Air Force will use the contract fo…

BEIJING — On July 6, the 9th Ministerial Meeting of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum was held via video-link.

“The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) is China’s first space infrastructure to provide public services for the world. During the development of the BeiDou-3 system, we ha…

SAN DIEGO — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) announced today that they will partner with Asia Air Survey (AAS) to hold a series of validation flights for the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) featuring GA-ASI’s SeaGuardian beginning in mid-September.

The purpose of the flights is to v…

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. –– The U.S. Air Force has placed an initial order for Northrop Grumman Corporation’s LITENING advanced targeting pods with full-color digital video capability and two-color laser spot search and track.

“LITENING’s color video capability works with the way we naturally see th…

PARIS — The French authorities have renewed the maintenance contract of the French Coastal Surveillance System, SPATIONAV, building on an over 20 yearlong successful collaboration between the French Navy and Airbus for safer oceans.

Since 2002, Airbus develops, deploys and maintains the SPATION…