Advanced China fighter aircraft makes test flight

Posted at: Fri Apr 28th, 2006

CHENGDU, April 28 (Xinhua) -- An advanced version of the China-developed new-generation fighter plane, the Xiaolong/FC-4, succeeded in its first flight on Friday in southwest China's Sichuan Province. Based on previous models, the Xiaolong/FC-1 and FC-3, the FC-4 is equipped with...

Pratt Details Joint Strike Fighter Jet Engine Order

Posted at: Fri Apr 28th, 2006

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - April 28, 2006 - Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:UTX), has been awarded the first production contract for F135 engines to po...

Top Contractors Compete for Cargo Plane

Posted at: Fri Apr 28th, 2006

Three of the top five U.S. defense contractors, including Boeing and Lockheed, have chosen sides in a competition for a potential $5 billion military cargo aircraft contract. Boeing announced Thursday that it would join a team headed by Greenville-based L-3 Communications Integrated S...

Air Force is told to buy 3 more Boeing C-17s

Posted at: Fri Apr 28th, 2006

A House panel directed the Air Force Thursday to buy three more Boeing Co. C-17 transports, a move that signals Congress likely will overturn the Pentagon's intent to cap the program at 180 aircraft. A House Armed Services Committee panel voted to pay for the planes by adding $300 mil...

Pakistan to buy "scaled down" package of F-16s

Posted at: Fri Apr 28th, 2006

WASHINGTON, APRIL 28: Pakistan has agreed to buy a "scaled down" package of F-16 fighter jets from the US due to strained resources following the devastating earthquake in the country last year. It is a "much scaled down request. In view of the constraints that we have on resources,...

Mystery cloaks Predator B 'drone' crash

Posted at: Fri Apr 28th, 2006

The crash and destruction of a $6.5 million unmanned aerial vehicle on Tuesday morning 10 miles north of Nogales remains a mystery but is under investigation. Michael Friel, director of Border Security Media Division for U.S. Customs and Border Portection, said that other than the UAV...

Australia Looking To Buy Strike Weapons, Planes and UAVS

Posted at: Fri Apr 28th, 2006

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is in contract negations to buy Boeing's [BA] Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and Lockheed Martin's [LMT] Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASM) for eventual use on that country's fleet of F/A-18 Hornets, said a top Australian military official.