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• Defence Helicopter

  Heli-Expo 2012: Engine market recovering claims Turbomeca

  13th February 2012

  Turbomeca has enjoyed a comfortable 2011 after bumps in the helicopter industry during 2010. Speaking at the company's press conference at Heli-Expo in Dallas, Olivier …

• Uncrewed Vehicles

  SGA2012: NG considers reducing Global Hawk running costs

  13th February 2012

  Northrop Grumman is studying ‘more efficient ways’ of operating the RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 UAS in order to reduce costs and force the US …

• Defence Helicopter

  Heli-Expo 2012: X3 being prepared for US tour

  12th February 2012

  Eurocopter is set to tour its X3 compound helicopter in the United States and demo the technology to the US Army, it has been revealed. …

• Defence Helicopter

  Heli-Expo 2012: EC130 is given the makeover treatment

  12th February 2012

  Eurocopter has received more than 100 orders for its latest version of the EC130 single-engined light helicopter. The EC130 T2 first flew in secret in …

• Defence Helicopter

  Heli-Expo 2012: Robinson celebrates a bumper 2011

  12th February 2012

  Robinson is looking at increasing production rates of its R66 turbines after a bumper year of orders. Speaking at the company's Heli-Expo press conference on …

• Defence Helicopter

  Heli-Expo 2012: Milestone signs for 16 EC225s

  12th February 2012

  In a further indication of the health of the helicopter leasing sector, Milestone Aviation signed a $480 million order for 16 EC225 helicopters at the …

• Defence Helicopter

  Heli-Expo 2012: Bell unveils 525 Super Medium Transport

  12th February 2012

  Bell Helicopter has unveiled the new 525 Relentless Super Medium Transport (SMT), which it hopes will come to define a new civil helicopter category. After …

• Defence Helicopter

  Heli-Expo 2012: AgustaWestland takes a positive outlook

  12th February 2012

  AgustaWestland says it has a positive outlook on 2012 having recorded more than 200 orders during 2011, up from 197 a year before. Speaking on …

• Defence Helicopter

  Heli-Expo 2012: Austrian firm patenting low-noise blade tip

  12th February 2012

  An Austrian helicopter operator is unveiling a blade tip design that its designer claims reduces both noise and improves performance at Heli-Expo 2012 in Dallas. …

• Digital Battlespace

  Raytheon to upgrade airborne comms

  10th February 2012

  Raytheon has announced that it will triple the satellite capacity for all AN/ARC-231 airborne radio terminals at no cost to the end-user an upgrade programme …

• Defence Helicopter

  Vision 1000 FDM approved for AgustaWestland helicopters

  9th February 2012

  MSP Aero has announced that the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) has recently granted a Supplemental Type Certificate for the Appareo Vision 1000 Flight Data Monitoring …

• Military Logistics

  Northrop Grumman delivers NGATS to US Army

  9th February 2012

  Northrop Grumman has announced that together with DRS Technologies, it has delivered the first Next Generation Automatic Test System (NGATS) to the US Army. Northrop …

• Land Warfare

  BAE Systems, Qinetiq team for US Army GCV

  9th February 2012

  QinetiQ has announced that it will provide its E-X-Drive transmission as the key component of a hybrid electric drive propulsion system to the BAE Systems-Northrop …

• Defence Helicopter

  Critical Software selected by AgustaWestland

  9th February 2012

  Critical Software has announced that it has been selected by AgustaWestland to work on a new mission planning system for its current Apache helicopter fleet …

• Military Logistics

  Extra C-17 for the RAF

  8th February 2012

  The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) is to buy another Boeing C-17, strengthening its fleet of transport aircraft to eight. The decision was announced by …