AEROSPACE & DEFENSE NEWS 15 December 2021

Today's News Headlines

MBDA's Marte ER has Successful Final Test Firing MBDA's new Marte ER anti-ship misile succesfully completed its final test firing at the end of November 202. Carried out at an Italian test range in Sardinia, the firing was a key milestone in the ...     Read the full story     Sweden to Join the 6x6 Vehicle Programme Sweden has officially announced its desire to join the Finnish-led CAVS programme (Common Armoured Vehicle System), which is also open to other countries with the mutual consent of the participating c....     Read the full story     Cubic Awarded Multimillion–Dollar Australian Defence Contract to Support Combat Training Centre Cubic Defence Australia announced today that it has been awarded up to 4-year contract to support the Australian Army's Combat Training Centre Live Instrumentation Simulation, Range Instrumentation, a...     Read the full story     De Havilland Canada and ZeroAvia Announce MOU to Develop Hydrogen–Electric Engine Program for Dash 8–400 Aircraft ZeroAvia, the leading innovator in zero-emision aviation powertrains, and De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited ("De Havilland Canada") today announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Un...     Read the full story     ALC Announces Lease Placement of 2 New Airbus A350–1000 Aircraft with Virgin Atlantic Today Air Lease Corporation (NYSE: AL) announced long-term lease placements for two new Airbus A350-000 aircraft with Virgin Atlantic. The two new A350-000s are scheduled to deliver to the airline in...     Read the full story     Elbit Awarded $350M Contract to Supply an Array of Land Systems to an International Customer Elbit Systems Ltd. ("Elbit Systems") announced today that it was awarded a contract valued at approximately $350 million to supply an array of land systems to an international customer. The contract w...     Read the full story     NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time, Bringing New Discoveries For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere - the corona - and sampled particles and magnetic fields the...     Read the full story     BGC FAAD C2 to Provide the Baltics Full Interoperability with NATO Air Defense Architecture Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army in support of U.S. European Command (EUCOM) to provide Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2) to Estonia, Li...     Read the full story     KBR Wins Multiple Prime Seats on ASTRO Contract KBR was awarded eight prime contracts as a part of the General Services Administration (GSA) ASTRO multiple award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, which encompases services re...     Read the full story     Newly Launched ACJ TwoTwenty Completes 1st Flight The aircraft will be delivered to Comlux in the coming weeks and then outfitted with a VVIP cabin by COMLUX in Indianapolis, USA after the delivery. Comlux has been selected as an exclusive outfitting...     Read the full story     Airbus and OneWeb Expand Their Partnership to Connect European Defence and Security Forces Airbus and OneWeb have signed a distribution partner agreement to provide low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication services for military and governmental use. As the leading provider of military ...     Read the full story     1st 2 Eurofighter Typhoons Delivered to Kuwait The first Eurofighter Typhoons for the Air force of Kuwait landed today in country. These are the first two Typhoons in the framework of a wider order for a total of 28 aircraft that will be delivered...     Read the full story     Watch Stars Move Around the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole in Deepest Images Yet The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of the region around the supermasive black hole at the centre ...     Read the full story     GBP1.02M Research Funding Awarded for Robotic Chemist Project To continue to deliver critical analytical capability for chemical, biological and explosives analysis, Dstl is working with industrial and academic partners to develop the application of mobile robot...     Read the full story