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Boeing tests Super Hornet for Australia St. Louis (UPI) Jul 23, 2009
The first Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet for the Royal Australian Air Force has had a test flight from Lambert International Airport in St. Louis as part of the manufacturer's preparations for the aircraft to make its maiden voyage to the buyer.
Boeing unveiled the aircraft July 8 at the company's Integrated Defense Systems facility in St. Louis and the test flight took place on Tuesday ... read moreSuccessful SABR Fit-Check Aboard F-16
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2009Northrop Grumman's newest active electronically scanned array (AESA) fighter sensor, the Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR), has been successfully installed on a U.S. Air Force F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. In November, SABR began a series of flight demonstrations aboard the company's test aircraft, successfully detecting and displaying multiple aerial targets and generating high ... more
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Apple blocking Dalai Lama, Kadeer, iPhone apps: report
US telecom company fined for bribing Chinese officials Apple blocking Dalai Lama iPhone applications: report Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security firms AT&T wants out of landline business Apple wins iPod hearing loss lawsuit Nuance buys British voice-to-text company SpinVox Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee Google plans Android event in January Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case
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Scientists Still At Odds On Tunguska After 100 Years
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 24, 2009More than 100 years have passed since the Tunguska Meteorite Event and the mystery of its occurrence remains unsolved, but scientists have not given up on solving the riddle. This July, an international research group from Italy and the United States ventured into deepest Siberia to investigate the most likely explanations of the mysterious event, and RIA Novosti correspondent David Burghardt ... more MBDA And BUMAR Sign Agreement For Future Polish Air Defence System
Le Plessis-Robinson, France (SPX) Jul 22, 2009Antoine Bouvier and Edward Nowak, the Chief Executive Officers of MBDA and the BUMAR group of Poland respectively, have met in France to sign a framework agreement between their two organisations. The full details of the final agreement will be established and formalised during the next two months in readiness for its signature this autumn. This agreement will see MBDA and BUMAR jointly in ... more AFOTEC Members Put Unmanned Aircraft Through Paces
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2009It's no secret that unmanned aircraft are widely used in today's war to provide information, surveillance and armed reconnaissance. What's not widely known is the evaluation process these aircraft go through before they are delivered to the warfighter. Members of Detachment 5 of the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center here test the MQ-1 Predator and three versions of the RQ-4 ... more |
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Gates vows to fight Congress on defense budget
Chicago (AFP) July 16, 2009US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday said he would fight lawmakers to ensure cuts to the F-22 fighter program, saying it was a test of efforts to reform entrenched military spending. "It is time to draw the line on doing defense business as usual," Gates said in a speech, adding that President Barack Obama would make good on a threat to veto any defense budget that includes money ... more India's fraud-hit Satyam to restate accounts for seven years
Mumbai (AFP) July 16, 2009Indian outsourcing firm Satyam Computer said Thursday it was on track to restate accounts going back seven years, after its founder-chairman had admitted to a massive corporate fraud in January. "We are likely to go back (in restating accounts) for at least 6-7 years. Work is in progress," company spokesman Sridhar Maturi told AFP by phone from the firm's headquarters in Hyderabad. ... more Raytheon Awarded Study Contract For Space Fence System Design And Prototyping
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jul 16, 2009Raytheon has been awarded one of three $30 million contracts for Phase A system design and prototype of the Space Fence system. Space Fence will provide the U.S. Air Force enhanced space surveillance capability to detect and report space objects. "Space Fence is the future of space situational awareness," said Pete Franklin, vice president for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems' National ... more |
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