Air

The RAAF KC-30A tanker transport aircraft has delivered 100,000,000 pounds of fuel during air-to-air refuel missions on Operation OKRA in the Middle East.

The Indian Air Force is participating in Exercise Pitch Black, the RAAF’s premier air combat exercise, with aircraft for the very first time.

Chemring Australia and Quickstep Holdings Ltd have secured funding for product development and cost reduction initiatives for F-35 Lightning II countermeasure flares.

The Indian Air Force is participating in Exercise Pitch Black for the first time.

Airways, NZ’s air navigation service provider, has selected the VCS-4G IP-based voice communications system from Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) for air traffic control (ATC) communications in NZ airspace.

Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon have informally agreed a price for the next batch of US F-35s. Yet even as costs lower, the program is still grappling with availability issues.

General Atomics has been selected to provide Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper medium altitude long-endurance (MALE) UAS to the Dutch military following news that the platform will be capable of using GPS and Europe’s Galileo satnav system.

UMS Skeldar has confirmed that its global focus on maritime applications is to be spearheaded by the Skeldar V-200B.

Despite anecdotal reports Army's Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) is a potent battlefield capability which has earned the respect of both its crew and the land force it supports, it would seem-someone senior in Defence or Government, or perhaps both, wants to kill the program.

New Zealand’s Defence Minister Ron Mark announced this week that the Coalition government has selected the Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft to fulfil its Future Air Surveillance Capability (FASC) requirements.

Providing a workforce with both technical and enterprise skills has long been on the agenda of RDA Hunter’s STEM Workforce initiatives, as has working with industry partners like Boeing.

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS has signed a contract worth 700 million NOK (AUD$ 116 million) with the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency for JSM test missiles for the integration phase on the F-35.

Triton has reached a significant milestone with the government investing $1.4 billion to acquire the first of six MQ-4C Triton remotely piloted aircraft through a cooperative program with the United States Navy.

Australia will upgrade facilities at the Royal Malaysian Air Force Base Butterworth and further deepen its strategic relationship with Malaysia.

Lockheed Martin's F-35A has been used in combat for the first time during an Israeli operation in the Middle East.

The commencement of Aviation Australia’s first Western Australian aircraft maintenance training course has begun at the new Jandakot facility.