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June 2019 news
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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designers at Insitu Inc. will build 34 ScanEagle small UAVs for the governments of Malaysia; Indonesia; the Philippines; and Vietnam under terms of a $47.9 million U.S. Navy order.
Five Rafales for the Qatari Amiri Air Force arrived home at Dukhan Air Base on June 5. Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was on hand to welcome the pilots and the jets home.
The United Arab Emirates has issued a request to the United States to buy three tankers "Pegasus" KC-46A produced by Boeing rather than continue their European supplier Airbus.
Russian inspectors are making an observation flight onboard of an An-30B surveillance aircraft over the territory of Croatia in compliance with the International Treaty on Open Skies, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) have test fired a new anti-ballistic missile at Sary-Shagan range in Kazakhstan, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Morocco will acquire AH-64 Apache military helicopters from the US within the next two years.
The F-35 fleet has achieved 200,000 flight hours across global operations, a significant milestone demonstrating the program’s progress and growing maturity. Within the same week, the F-35 Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) also delivered the 400th production F-35.
Within the framework of the forum “Unmanned Systems” of the Studiengesellschaft DWT, Quantum-Systems GmbH and ESG present with Vector and Scorpion real world novelties in the field of electrically operated, unmanned systems for tactical deployment scenarios.
Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, announced on June 4 that it has been selected by a prime contractor for an additional award valued at approximately $1.7 million. This award is a follow-on to the $3.8 million contract awarded to Drone Aviation by this same prime contractor in January 2019, bringing the total award value to approximately $5.5 million.
Northrop Grumman is awarded a not-to-exceed $65,173,723 advance acquisition contract for long-lead components for the manufacture and delivery of three low-rate initial production Lot 5 M-4C Triton unmanned aircraft for the US Navy and the government of Australia..
The whole Russian force in the Arctic will access high-speed information transmission channels by the end of 2019. They will become operational after Meridian-M satellites are orbited. They will increase the carrying capacity of the satellite communication system and expand its zone of coverage to the whole Northern Sea Route. Arctic communications are a difficult technical problem, experts said. Most modern satellites do not cover territory to the north of the 70th latitude where most of the Northern Sea Route goes, the Izvestia daily writes.
A new battalion of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been formed at the 201st Russian military base in Tajikistan, the press service of the Central Military District (TsVO) said.
Indra, a company that specializes in high-altitude sports training with the iAltitude system, has successfully completed the development of a novel Hypoxia flight trainer that is already installed in the Aviation Medicine Training Center of the Spanish Air Force in Madrid and is currently being used to train and provide greater endurance capacity in extreme scenarios to Spanish military pilots.
BAE Systems, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $39,459,120 undefinitized contract action for the France MQ-9 Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Sensor Pod effort.
The US Navy has recently awarded a contract to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) services through the use of Group 5 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
The US State Department has approved the sale to Bulgaria of eight F-16 Viper fighter jets and associated equipment, weapons and training for an estimated $1.673 billion, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced on June 3.
General Dynamics was awarded a $7.5 million contract modification for helicopter-mounted gun turrets, the US Defense Department announced.
Russia has completed the upgrade of air command posts on Il-80 and Il-82 aircraft. They will become operational in the Aerospace Forces. The airplanes are also dubbed as Doomsday aircraft as they can operate in conditions of adversary engagement of nuclear weapons. So far, only Russia and the United States operate such aircraft. Russia also wants to create air command posts on Mi-38 helicopters, Gazeta.ru writes.
Indonesia expects the supplies of Russian Su-35 fighter jets to start by the end of 2019, Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu told TASS.
Royal Malaysian Air Force chief General, Affendi Buang said that the service is looking at a range of helicopters including the EC725.
