Aviation News
A $38 million cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded to Raytheon on Sept. 6. The company will have to provide an incremental software solution for the AIM-120D “to improve its performance against rapidly advancing threats.”
![CEkccYeUUAAioql[1]](http://alert5.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/CEkccYeUUAAioql1.jpg)
Photo: @vx51
Continue reading “Raytheon to provide incremental software solution for AIM-120D”
Airbus Defence and Space announced on Sept. 7 that the first A330 MRTT Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) for France has made its maiden flight that day.
Photo: Airbus
Continue reading “France’s first A330 MRTT has flown”
MD Helicopters of Mesa, Arizona, was awarded a $1.3 billion contract on Sept. 5 to supply an estimated quantity of 150 MD 530F helicopters to Afghanistan.
By Staff Sgt. Perry Aston (USAF) (dvidshub.net) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Continue reading “Afghanistan paying $1.3 billion for 150 MD 530Fs”
A Ukrainian shipbuilder who had worked on Soviet aircraft carrier programs, Valery Vasilevich Babich, has apparently been recruited by China to work for a Qingdao ship design company.
![5qNU-fykpyua5418269[1]](http://alert5.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/5qNU-fykpyua54182691.jpg)
Continue reading “Soviet aircraft carrier designer now working for China”