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Micro UAVs may combat IEDs in Iraq

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JCA win boosts C-27J team’s fortunes

The L-3 Communications Integrated Systems-led C-27J team, including partners Alenia Aeronautica, GMAS (a joint L-3/Alenia company) and Boeing Integrated De

Embraer studies medium-size military airlifter

Embraer, the world’s fourth-ranking aircraft maker, which started largely as a defense company, is seeking to enhance its defense business by studying the

EADS elbows into tanker fray

EADS Military Transport Aircraft (MTA) has set its sights on half of the aerial-refueling-tanker market estimated at 600 aircraft for 30 countries over the

French Tigers to get Hellfire II

France is buying the Lockheed Martin Hellfire II missile system to give its 40 Tiger HAD (Hélicoptère d’Appui Destruction) helicopters a versatile precisio

Airbus offers frax ownership of A400M airlifter to NATO

Airbus Military is offering to supply some A400M tactical airlifters to NATO on a “fractional ownership” basis.

Irkut sends first two Flankers to Malaysia

The Irkut aviation plant on Sunday delivered the first two Su-30MKM multirole fighters to Malaysia, where they will be reassembled.

L-3 Trains Predator Operators

In May L-3 Link Simulation and Training division delivered the first five of seven Predator Mission Aircraft Training Systems (PMATS) to the U.S.

MiG targets $4 billion in ’07 orders

In 2006, orders for Russian armaments totaled $30 billion, while aggregate military exports exceeded the target figure by 20 percent, setting a record of $

Sky Warrior passes first flight

Earlier this month, the California-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

Tiger over the top

Getting in some early practice is this Eurocopter EC 665 Tigre, one of 24 rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft that will be flying in the daily display here.

MTU To Build Factory in Poland

German-based MTU Aero Engines is to build a new low-pressure turbine factory in Rzeszów, southeast Poland.

Airbus sets sights on A400M targets

It has been a busy year for the Airbus Military A400M program, which has seen the first major components of the European airlifter reach the final assembly

A case for a ‘sometimes’ UAV

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology is arguably the fastest growing aspect of present-day aviation.

Regardless of CSAR outcome, Chinook will last decades more

Boeing is confident that its HH-47 rotorcraft will be reconfirmed as the winner of the potential $10 billion U.S.

U.S. Army helo fleet undergoes facelift

Since the dramatic cancellation of the stealthy Comanche attack helicopter in 2004, U.S.

Raytheon, L-3 team on AESA demo

The advent of the active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has not only dramatically improved the traditional capabilities of the radar, but has al

AeroVodochody faces ultimatum

Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody, founded in 1919, probably lays a fair claim to being the oldest airframer still active today.

U.S. publishes roadmap for UAV operations

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recently published for comment a roadmap for the routine operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in U.S.

European forces struggle with flight training costs

Training pilots to fly combat jets is an expensive proposition.