Group editor Marty Kauchak reports that special operations forces (SOF) in the US and other nations are investing in ever more capable technology to train, rehearse and maintain proficiency for their missions.

In Issue 3, MS&T looked at the progress of the F-35 programme, with specific focus on aircrew training, and the plans of the partner nations. Depending on their level of partnership in the programme, these nations are also very much involved from an industrial perspective, not least the UK. Europe Editor Dim Jones reports.

South Africa’s TSFA provides a valuable service to nations requiring flight test qualified personnel. MS&T’s Europe Editor Dim Jones visited the academy.

Set up to promote research, collaboration, and the European defence industrial base, the EDA recently celebrated its first decade. Walter F. Ullrich writes.

Erickson Incorporated has contracted with Chilcott Inc. to provide flight training for the Fuerza Aerea Uruguaya (FAU or Uruguayan Air Force) helicopter pilots. The training will be conducted entirely in Spanish and under the agreement, Erickson pilot instructors will train FAU pilots in preparation for work on the United National...

This October Boeing announced it completed its upgrade of all US Air Force F-22 Raptor Mission Training Centers with its high fidelity Constant Resolution Visual System (CRVS). The system up enhancement will permit Raptor pilots to more realistically train and rehearse for missions, and help the fifth-generation aircraft training system...

The US Navy’s Aegis missile system training program is evolving and with good reason. The threat sets, including ballistic missiles, against which the Aegis system is designed, have gotten faster and deadlier. Marty Kauchak writes.

In the margins of my recent foray to the Deep South (Portsmouth, that is, not New Orleans), I took the opportunity to visit two of the smaller companies with close ties to the S&T industry.