The USMC plans to outfit its fleet of AAI RQ-7 Shadow drones with laser designators, allowing them to guide missiles fired from manned platforms.

Thales has revealed details of its offering for the ADF's Interim Basic Flying Training contract, for which a source selection is due within weeks.

The Williams Foundation pilot training seminar examined the challenges of producing operational pilots for a "fifth generation" Defence Force.

Flight Lieutenant David Whyte and Pilot Officer Stephen Maunder are the RAAF's first locally trained pilots for the C-17A Globemaster.

Airbus and Australia want the Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures equipment for the A330 Multi Role Tanker Transports fitted at Getafe.

Lockheed Martin and Saab used Heli & UV Pacific 2010 to demonstrate the MH-60R helicopter's network-centric warfare capabilities.

The RAAF's AP-3C Orions are as busy as they've ever been, and there are few doubts over its ability to achieve its Life of Type in 2018-19.

For every pound of titanium on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in the air, 12 to 15 pounds went through the production process, a ratio of 11:1.

Northrop Grumman's MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) returned from its first operational deployment in April.

BAE Systems' Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures (ATIRCM) system has been credited with defeating infrared-guided missiles since it went into service on US Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters late in 2009.

Airbus Military has completed all the flight tests required for the daylight certification of the new generation hose-and drogue refuelling system on the KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT).

The first P-8A Poseidon test aircraft has arrived at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River to continue a US Navy flight test program which began last year in Seattle.

The RAAF's first two Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft have undergone Initial Acceptance at Williamtown.

AAI has begun deliveries of the new extended wing kit for its Shadow UAS.

The seventh Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II flight test aircraft, AF-2, has joined the flight test program configured to test and verify the aircraft's multiple weapons loads.

The DMO has released project solicitation documents to the US Navy and Australian Aerospace for the supply of new naval combat helicopters under Project Air 9000 Ph.8.