Category Archives: Military Aviation

Northrop Grumman has completed ground-based tests to demonstrate critical technology required for a 2025 demonstration of space-based solar power. “As far as the technologies go, we’re very confident in our design and we’ve proven it out,” Tara Theret, Northrop Grumman’s Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) program director, told SpaceNews. “Now, it’s justRead More

The US Space Systems Command recently launched a cubesat intended to demonstrate commercial weather imaging technologies for military use. The Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) Weather Systems (EWS) demonstration launched on the SpaceX Transporter-6 rideshare that deployed more than 110 small satellites. Over a planned one-year demonstration, the Space Force wants to assess the capabilities of an imagingRead More

Raytheon Intelligence & Space announced that it has selected a Lockheed Martin bus to build a missile-tracking satellite for the US Space Force. The US Space Systems Command selected two satellite designs — one by Raytheon and the other by Millennium Space Systems — for a planned constellation of sensors in medium Earth orbit (MEO)Read More

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems won a contract from Advanced Space to build a satellite that the Air Force Research Laboratory plans to launch to deep space in 2025. General Atomics, based in San Diego, California, announced that it will produce an ESPA-class satellite bus, integrate and test payloads for Advanced Space, the prime contractor forRead More

Multiple Defence Forces, including Air Force, Joint Operations, Navy Operations, Air Defence, and National Guard, will receive Frequentis secure communication technology and will create the largest military communications system in the region. The scope of the project includes over 130 controller working positions deployed on over 10 sites; interfaces for radios with radio remote control,Read More

Jet Aviation has hosted a ceremony in Canberra to celebrate 20 years of supporting the RAAF’s fleet of King Air 350s. The company now supports a fleet of 11, operated by Number 32 Squadron.   Craig Purry, vice president of Jet Aviation Defence APAC, said its King Air Program was an “exemplar” in showing howRead More

Northrop Grumman on recently unveiled the B-21 Raider to the world for the first time – but gave away little new information on its advances. The dramatic ceremony at Palmdale, California, which you can watch here, represented the first time the ‘sixth-generation’ aircraft had been seen outside artists’ impressions and the first unveiling of aRead More

RAAF’s No. 75 Squadron flew F-35s over Singapore for the first time, deployed out of Paya Lebar Air Base. Aircraft crew trained alongside counterparts from the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) last month, engaging in both air and ground-based activities, designed to bolster bilateral defence ties. The exercise also aimed to enhance interoperability betweenRead More

Joramco, the Amman-based MRO provider and the engineering arm of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), has won its first maintenance agreement with euroAtlantic Airways. The new agreement stipulates that Joramco will perform heavy checks, paint, and placard installation on two Boeing 777 from the euroAtlantic Airways fleet. Joramco’s CEO, Fraser Currie, said, “We are proud toRead More

Northrop Grumman selected Leidos to supply infrared sensor payloads for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking satellite constellation in low Earth orbit. “It’s a key win for our space business,” Leidos chairman and CEO Roger Krone said during a third-quarter earnings call. Northrop Grumman won a $617 million contract in July to produce 14 infrared-sensingRead More