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Bombardier, IRKUT Enter Discussions on MS-21 Aircraft
2013-08-29 Read More...
Bombardier Aerospace presented further evidence of its growing relationship with Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) with the announcement of its intention to enter into exploratory discussions with leading Russian aircraft

Lockheed Wins Counterfire Radar Production Order
2013-08-28 Read More...
The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin (LM) $206 million in additional orders for the AN/TPQ-53 (Q-53), a long-range counterfire radar that provides soldiers with enhanced 360-degree protection from indirect

Bombardier at Moscow Air Show (MAKS 2013)
2013-08-28 Read More...
Bombardier Aerospace is showcasing its Q400 NextGen aircraft, as well as the cockpit and full-scale cabin demonstrators for its all-new CSeries jetliner at the 2013 International Aviation and Space Salon - MAKS 2013 - at Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airport

Boeing Begins Assembling 2nd KC-46A Tanker Aircraft
2013-08-27 Read More...
Boeing officially began assembling the second KC-46A Tanker last week as workers loaded the aircraft’s wing spar into an Automated Spar Assembly Tool.

SM-6 Engages 1st Over-The-Horizon Targets at Sea
2013-08-26 Read More...
The U.S. Navy fired two Raytheon Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) interceptors from the USS Chancellorsville, successfully engaging two cruise missile targets (BQM-74 drones) in the missile's first over-the-horizon test scenario at

Exelis to Supply Carriage, Release Systems for F-35
2013-08-26 Read More...
Exelis has successfully negotiated an agreement with Lockheed Martin Corp. to deliver carriage and release systems for the F-35 Lightning

Latest Aegis Combat System Completes 1st Live Firing Test
2013-08-26 Read More...
The Lockheed Martin and U.S. Navy team’s Aegis Combat System successfully completed the first live firing test that proves the system can defend beyond its line of sight by integrating data from a remote sensor to intercept a

Boeing Produces 250,000th JDAM Guidance Kit
2013-08-22 Read More...
Boeing marked its recent production of the 250,000th Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance kit, a major milestone for a program that, since 1998, has reliably and affordably converted unguided munitions into near-precision

Two Boeing EMARSS Aircraft Begin Flight Tests
2013-08-21 Read More...
Two Boeing Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) aircraft have arrived at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland for airborne tests of the target-tracking capabilities they will provide to the U.S.

Raytheon Intercepts Low Quadrant Elevation Rocket
2013-08-21 Read More...
Raytheon successfully intercepted and destroyed a low quadrant elevation (QE) 107mm rocket as part of the second series of guided test vehicle (GTV) flight tests of the Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative (AI3)

F-35B’s First Night Vertical Landing Aboard USS WASP
2013-08-21 Read More...
Last Wednesday, August 14, U.S. Marine Corps test Pilot Lt. Colonel Russell Clift performed the first F-35B night-time vertical landing aboard the USS

Raytheon’s Patriot Launches PAC-3 Missile
2013-08-19 Read More...
Raytheon new-production Patriot Air and Missile Defense System successfully launched a PAC-3 missile to engage a tactical ballistic missile (TBM) target at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. This test was the culmination of two years of testing of

Harris Wins FAA's NextGen DCNS Program Order
2013-08-19 Read More...
Harris has received authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to begin work on the seven-year, $150 million Data communications Network Services (DCNS) element of its Data Communications Integrated Services (DCIS)

GA-ASI Demonstrates Electronic Attack in USMC Exercise
2013-08-16 Read More...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, (GA-ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, announced its successful demonstration of Predator B’s Electronic

Boeing Thin Disk Laser Exceeds Performance Requirements
2013-08-16 Read More...
The Boeing Thin Disk Laser system, which integrates a series of high-power industrial lasers to generate one concentrated, high-energy beam, exceeded required thresholds for power and beam quality during a demonstration for the Department of

Lockheed Delivers 22 JLTV Vehicles to U.S. Army & Marines
2013-08-15 Read More...
Lockheed Martin celebrated the delivery of 22 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps today under the JLTV program's Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD)

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