MD Helicopters has won a bid to supply six MD 530G scout attack helicopters to Malaysia and will be delivering the first chopper by year-end. It will complete full fleet delivery by the end of first quarter of 2017, the company said in a statement Monday
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd (KAI) has successfully conducted the maiden flight of a new medical transport version of its Surion helicopter. The 20-minute test flight took place at the KAI's headquarters in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, on Friday under the observation of about 40 officials from the defense procurement agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Army and the Armed Forces Medical Command, the company said Monday
Japan may be closer to grabbing a US$34.55 billion Australian submarine fleet contract as Germanys ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) is reported to lose ground over technical concerns
Lockheed Martin has won $14.2 million contract for the procurement of non-recurring engineering requirements on the Target Sight System (TSS) for Pakistan
Vietnam plans to sell former US airbase measuring more than 186 hectares in Nha Trang valued at around US $540 Million. The airbase is open for sale to investors for a shopping-services mixed development under a build-transfer project, thanhnien news reported Tuesday
South Korea has announced plans to restart broadcasts along its border with North Korea. "The broadcasts typically include news updates, weather updates, and anti-North Korean propaganda messages" and even local pop music, NPR Seoul reported Thursday
Fear of intellectual property loss combined with inexperience in helicopter manufacture led Russia's Rostec Corp to select Hindustan Aeronautics Limited over a private firm in the 'Make in India' program to manufacture KA-226T helicopters. The helicopter manufactured by Russian Helicopters boasts of certain unique technologies never before employed in any helicopter in its class anywhere in the world- It is the only chopper with a co-axial twin rotor and no tail rotor
The French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) has ordered seven additional Tiger HAD attack helicopters, bringing to 67 the total number of Tigers that will eventually be operated by the French Army Aviation. The additional Tigers will be delivered in 2017-2018
Airbus has delivered three additional H225M helicopters to the Brazilian Armed Forces. Two are destined for the Brazilian Army and the third for the Brazilian Air Force, bringing to seven the total number of H225M delivered to Brazil in 2015, the company said in a statement Monday
Iran will drop lawsuit against Russian Rosoboronexport before the supplies of the first S-300 missile systems are delivered. "[Now the lawsuit] has not been dropped