Airbus Military and MBDA have successfully completed the first flight of the C295 maritime patrol aircraft with an instrumented Marte MK2/S anti-ship inert missile installed under the wing.
Military aviation
F-35 progress report
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) F-35 program accrued the highest number of test points in a single month during June, an accomplishment indicative of the program’s ongoing maturation.
Lockheed delivered four F-35
With the delivery of four Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] F-35 Lightning II aircraft since June 29, an important milestone was achieved as the Department of Defense now possesses more operational-coded F-35s than test aircraft.
Oman will buy Sniper® Advanced Targeting Pods (ATP)
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $23 million contract from the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO) to provide additional Sniper® Advanced Targeting Pods (ATP) for their F-16 fleet.
Boeing will integrate new armament on A-29 Super Tucano
Embraer [NYSE: ERJ; BOVESPA: EMBR3] and Boeing [NYSE: BA] today at the Farnborough Airshow announced an agreement that further enhances the collaboration between the two companies and brings additional capabilities to Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano through new weapons integration developments to meet future customer requirements.