Aerospace giant Boeing has selected Brisbane-based Ferra Engineering to produce wing kits for its High-Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability (HAAWC) under a contract of undisclosed value. The HAAWC is designed to be deployed from Boeing’s P-8A multi-mission maritime patrol aircraft,…
Washington DC-based Liquid Robotics displayed its WaveGlider SV3 Block II Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) at Indo Pacific in an attempt to interest the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), but appears to have lost the initiative to Ocius Technologies’ Bluebottle family of…
Boeing has delivered the 13th P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance and anti‑submarine aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) at the same time as the first RAAF P‑8A has been inducted into an upgrade program. The RAAF’s 14th and final P-8A is scheduled…
The US Navy has awarded four companies contracts of undisclosed value to design and develop armed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs). A fifth company has won a contract, also of undisclosed value, to build a common control system. No in-service date…
The first AH-64E Apache attack reconnaissance helicopter for the Australian Army has entered final assembly on the Boeing production line in Mesa, Arizona, and the first four are scheduled to be delivered by the end of 2025. Designated AT001, the…
In the same week that the US Air Force selected Boeing’s F-47 is its 6th generation Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) crewed fighter, California-based Anduril Industries is showing a model of its 6thgeneration YFQ-44 Fury autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA)…
The US Department of the Air Force has selected Boeing as winner of the contract for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform, the F-47. This will marking a major milestone in the…
Brisbane-based Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) has received Military Production Organisation Approval (MPOA) from Australia’s Defence Aviation Safety Authority (DASA) for the local manufacture of aerospace parts and components. This approval will speed up parts availability ADF aircraft while driving down…
The Australian Army and US Marine Corps have conducted a joint trial of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled autonomous uncrewed systems at Marine Corps base Quantico in the USA. fly over Northern Virginia. The trial saw an Uncrewed Air System (UAS)…
Five US companies have been selected to manufacture a range of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) for the US Air Force. The companies are: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics and Anduril Industries. The CCA program, which is understood to…