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The US Department of Defense's Artificial Intelligence Strategy highlighted the technology's ability to improve flight safety and aircraft maintenance.Artificial intelligence (AI) software could enhance the situational awareness of military commanders as well as pilots, ...

Russian investigators are probing an accident during boarding of a Ural Airlines aircraft at Barnaul which involved the failure of a mobile airstair. ...

The US Department of Defense roughly outlined the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II's Tier II global repair network.Tier II servicers within the F-35's maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade network are eligible to fix nearly 400 repairable components, including avionics, power systems, ...

Boeing recorded a $736 million reach-forward loss in 2018 on its KC-46A Pegasus tanker, bringing the programme's total losses to nearly $3.6 billion.The programme's losses in 2018 primarily reflected higher estimated costs associated with 'certification, testing and change incorporation on aircraft, ...

The Indian air force's first four Boeing CH-47F Chinook transport helicopters have arrived in the country, with their induction to service due later this year. The rotorcraft have arrived at Mundra Port in the western state of Gujarat, the manufacturer confirms. ...

The British Army has completed a first Arctic exercise involving its Boeing/Westland Apache AH1 attack helicopters, with the six-week activity having concluded with day and night firings using the type's 30mm cannon.Staged from Bardufoss in Norway, ...

Boeing has delivered its fifth KC-46A Pegasus tanker to the US Air Force, with its latest example the first to be transferred to Altus AFB in Oklahoma.BoeingThe heavily adapted 767 – registered 76027 – arrived at the site from Everett, Washington on 8 February, ...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions received $14 million in recent contract awards to develop a new unmanned air vehicle, called Aethon, designed for tactical, as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, missions.The company disclosed little else about the new UAV, ...

India, says Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia, 'is seen as a very big, but very difficult market'. He describes the country's military procurement process as characterised by 'very long decision times, very heavy work and technology transfer demand В­involving a dysfunctional national champion, ...

India's state owned airframer Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) could soon be left with the Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) as its sole fighter production line on completion of manufacturing under licence of the Sukhoi Su-30MKI next year, ending a 222-aircraft production run.

The US Air Force continues to struggle to keep and replace sufficient numbers of experienced and highly skilled aircraft maintainers. ...

France and Germany have stepped up their efforts to develop a joint Future Air Combat System (FCAS) by awarding Airbus and Dassault a first contract for the project, while Safran Aircraft Engines and MTU Aero Engines have announced a partnership to build the aircraft's powerplants. ...

After winning a contract in June 2018 from Lockheed Martin to develop and produce the F-35 Lightning II's next-generation electro-optical Distributed Aperture System (DAS), Raytheon is looking at also installing the camera technology on helicopters.As late as 2012, ...

Sikorsky remains confident that the SB-1 Defiant helicopter it is jointly developing with Boeing can achieve a target speed of around 270kt (500km/h), even though the technology demonstrator is yet to leave the ground. ...

India was approved by the US State Department to purchase two Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures Self-Protection Suites for an estimated cost of $190 million.The self-protection systems would be installed on India's forthcoming head-of-state Boeing 777s, called Air India One, ...

The US Navy marked retirement of its last legacy McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet fleet in a fly-over ceremony at sunset on 1 February at Naval Air Station Oceania in Virginia Beach, Virginia.The Blue Blasters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 34 were the last squadron in the USN flying the Hornet, ...

Dassault has handed over the first of an eventual 36 Rafale combat aircraft – a DQ two-seat variant – to Qatar, for operation by the country's air force.Doha signed for 24 examples in 2015, adding a further 12 aircraft a little over two years later. ...

Deployed operations with the UK's Panavia Tornado GR4 strike aircraft have come to an end, with its last examples having returned to the Royal Air Force's Marham base in Norfolk.Crown CopyrightThree of the type completed a transfer from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on 5 February, ...

Australia believes it has finally overcome the high-profile problems that have dogged two of its helicopter procurement programmes – with such progress made on one platform that it has now been accepted for special forces operations. ...

Elbit Systems of America has been awarded a potentially $22 million contract to support an avionics modernisation activity on the US Air National Guard's fleet of Fairchild Metroliner-derived RC-26B surveillance aircraft.Announcing its receipt of an initial $5 million contract on 4 February, ...