16 December 2021

AEROSPACE & DEFENSE NEWS 15 December 2021

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MBDA's Marte ER has Successful Final Test Firing

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 ...

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Sweden to Join the 6x6 Vehicle Programme

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....

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Cubic Awarded Multimillion–Dollar Australian Defence Contract to Support Combat Training Centre

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...

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De Havilland Canada and ZeroAvia Announce MOU to Develop Hydrogen–Electric Engine Program for Dash 8–400 Aircraft

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...

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ALC Announces Lease Placement of 2 New Airbus A350–1000 Aircraft with Virgin Atlantic

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...

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Elbit Awarded $350M Contract to Supply an Array of Land Systems to an International Customer

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...

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NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time, Bringing New Discoveries

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...

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BGC FAAD C2 to Provide the Baltics Full Interoperability with NATO Air Defense Architecture

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...

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KBR Wins Multiple Prime Seats on ASTRO Contract

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...

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Newly Launched ACJ TwoTwenty Completes 1st Flight

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...

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Airbus and OneWeb Expand Their Partnership to Connect European Defence and Security Forces

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 ...

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1st 2 Eurofighter Typhoons Delivered to Kuwait

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...

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Watch Stars Move Around the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole in Deepest Images Yet

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 ...

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GBP1.02M Research Funding Awarded for Robotic Chemist Project

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...

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