Triumph Group Inc. will provide Airframe Mounted Accessory Drives (AMAD) and hydraulic systems to Saab for the Boeing T-X advanced pilot training jet. Saab, Boeing’s partner for the T-X program, responsible for the aft fuselage and the associated subsystems, named Triumph as the supplier to design, develop, manufacture, and...
Embraer Defense & Security and its partner Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) were awarded a contract to deliver 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force. The contract for the Nigerian Air Force includes ground training devices, mission planning systems, mission debrief systems, spares, ground support...
CAE announced that the Italian Ministry of Defence and Italian Air Force have formally qualified the CAE-built Predator Mission Trainer (PMT) for zero flight time training on the Predator B/MQ-9 variant, and the simulator has been accepted as ready-for-training at the Amendola Air Base in Italy. The PMT is...
At the Joint Close Air Support (JCAS) Symposium, which will run February 5-8, 2019, at the Westin, Virginia Beach Town Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia, MetaVR's Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG) and real-time immersive 3D terrain and models will be featured in the demo of TRU Simulation + Training's new...
When the U.S. Air Force flies its new advanced pilot T-X trainer from Boeing and Saab, it will be equipped with an ACES 5 ejection seat from Collins Aerospace, a unit of United Technologies Corp., along with a fully integrated landing gear system. ACES 5 offers passive head and...
The U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier, opened a state-of-the-art high-G training and test facility at RAF Cranwell, U.K. The £44 million project is used by fast jet pilots in the U.K. Royal Navy and Royal Air Force to...
The Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO), the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) and Fighter Wing Skrydstrup (FW SKP) took delivery of a newly developed combined F-16 simulator and JTAC training capacity at the FW SKP in December 2018. The complete training system consists of two...
U.S. Army and Marine Corps personnel partnered to train with and test a low-cost parachute system at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, in December. Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Central Command marines released four low-velocity-low-cost, four high-velocity-high-cost, and two Joint Precision Aerial Delivery Systems from a KC-130J onto the Udairi...
Sponsored Content Defence IQ has just released its annual Global Military Flight Training Market Report for 2018-2019. View the full report here. Ahead of Military Flight Training 2019, this year’s report provides fresh insight on the most significant procurements, as well as updates on ongoing programmes for both fixed-wing and...
Twenty three SMEs, research institutions and individuals from six Australian states and territories have made the short list for the $60 thousand AVALON 2019 Innovation Awards. The awards are open to Australian companies and the Australian subsidiaries of overseas parent companies. The innovation can be a new product or service...