The second A330 Multi-Role Tanker-Transport to be converted in the Qantas facility at Brisbane has successfully performed its first Production Flight.

After years of negotiations between the US and Israel for the purchase of the F-35 fifth-generation fighter aircraft, the Letter of Offer and Acceptance has been signed.

Israel's defence ministry will not compromise on its demand to equip future Lockheed Martin F-35 JSFs with Israeli-made electronic warfare systems.

DSTO has developed software for Air Force C-130J aircraft to vastly improve the process of dynamic balancing of propellers to reduce vibration levels.

Australian Aerospace, which produces the MRH90s at its final assembly facility on Brisbane Airport, delivered its 13th MRH90 on 3 September 2010.

Boeing has completed production of the first RAAF F/A-18F Super Hornet that has the capability to be converted into an electronic attack aircraft.

Australia and other international partners in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program have been warned that their industrial participation could be affected if firm commitments to buy the aircraft are delayed or amended.

Boeing Australia Component Repairs (BACR) has signed a contract of undisclosed value with the Defence to repair and refurbish structural components for the RAAF’s ‘classic’ F/A-18 A/B Hornet fleet.

Norwegian aerospace company Kongsberg has signed a NOK270 million contract with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics to manufacture 62 shipsets of titanium and composite tail fin and rudder components for the F-35C carrier-borne variant of the Joint Strike Fighter.

Boeing and the US Navy have begun flight testing a Distributed Targeting System for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Advanced Weapons Lab in China Lake.

Lockheed Martin has successfully conducted the first flight of the F-35 Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) on the Joint Strike Fighter project’s Cooperative Avionics Test Bed (CATBird).

The latest variant of Lockheed Martin’s multi-purpose Hellfire II missile, the AGM-114R, or ‘Romeo’, has struck and destroyed a stationary tank target in its third proof-of-principle flight test, a ground-launch test configured to simulate launch from an unmanned aerial system (UAS).

The US Navy’s P-8A maritime patrol aircraft program has received approval to begin low rate production.

Raytheon Australia has teamed with Bell Helicopter to bid for project Air 9000 Phase 7 - Helicopter Aircrew Training System (HATS), which will provide the future rotary wing training capability for Navy and Army.

BAE Systems has announced that it will pursue the US Air Force’s Advanced Pilot Training Family of Systems program with what it terms the world’s most advanced and successful fast jet training system, the proven Hawk Advanced Jet Training System.

On September 7, the French Navy took delivery of its second NH90 Caiman Marine helicopter, to be used for anti-submarine and anti-ship warfare.