Military & Defense

Rolls-Royce has opened its new advanced LiftWorks repair facility for fighter jet propulsion components in Plainfield, IN, near the company’s facilities in Indianapolis, US. Rolls-Royce will repair and overhaul components for the Roll-Royce LiftSystem for F-35 Lightning II aircraft. The LiftSystem provides the vertical-lift capability for the F-35B, which is flown by US Marine Corps

Northrop Grumman recently supplied the 1,000th AN/AAQ-37 Distributed Aperture System (DAS) sensor for integration on the F-35 Lightning II aircraft. The six infrared DAS sensors on the F-35 provide full spherical situational awareness to the pilot, day and night. The DAS provides a revolutionary capability to autonomously detect and track aircraft and missiles in every

JBT Corporation has been awarded an engineering contract for over US$6m from the U.S. Navy for mobile power equipment. The contract is for engineering and prototype design work for a new-generation mobile shipboard power generator equipment for Navy and Marine Corps aircraft to be based on aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships. In addition to

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) awarded GE Aviation its first Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract to support F110, F101 and F118 engines. The five-year contract – valued at more than US$330m – covers Tinker Depot and world-wide consumable parts needs. The F-series Captains of Industry (COI) Contract provides a three-year option which could increase the

Embraer successfully performed the first flight of the new military transport and aerial refueling jet, the KC-390. Test pilots Mozart Louzada and Marcos Salgado de Oliveira Lima and flight test engineers Raphael Lima and Roberto Becker flew the aircraft for 1 hour and 25 minutes, conducting an evaluation of flying qualities and performance. On its