July 2015

 Rolls-Royce has won on the 29th of July a $580 million (£340 million) TotalCare long-term engine support contract with Vietnam Airlines for Trent XWB engines that will power 14 Airbus A350 XWB aircraft. The contract […]

 As an expert in collecting and analyzing maintenance data, Sagem (Safran) is now offering a system for automatic transmission of this information from the aircraft to the airport infrastructure. It is an asset to airlines […]

 The Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP, Secretary of State for Defence has today visited BAE Systems’ Military Air and Information business in Samlesbury, Lancashire to mark the completion of the 200th rear fuselage for the […]

 One of the world’s most impenetrable satellite communications systems, built by Lockheed Martin to serve the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands and the U.K., is now live. Those nations now have a modern, operational protected network […]

Finmeccanica-Alenia Aermacchi has completed dedicated flight-testing following the modification to add winglets to the C-27J battlefield airlifter configuration, one of a series of product developments underway on the only real military medium turboprop airlifter on […]

 Satcom Direct, the leading provider of satellite voice and broadband data solutions for flight deck and cabin communications, is bolstering its activity in the Baltic and CIS regions with a strong presence at two of […]

 One of the largest Italian tug owners, Fratelli Neri S.p.A, ordered its first Damen tug, an ASD 3212, on 21 July 2015. The vessel will be the first ASD tug in the Mediterranean region with […]

 Lockheed Martin delivered the 29th C-5M Super Galaxy to the U. S. Air Force on July 28. A Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) aircrew ferried the aircraft from the Lockheed Martin facility here to Stewart […]

 Raytheon Company Chairman and CEO Thomas A. Kennedy announced on the 30th of July the appointment of Wesley D. Kremer as President, Integrated Defense Systems, effective immediately. Kremer, 50, previously served as vice president of […]

   This month, a Damen RoRo 5612 was launched at Halong Shipyard in Vietnam. The RoRo is one of nine Damen vessels ordered by the Royal Bahamas Defence Force as part of its Sandy Bottom […]