UK military aircraft testing infrastructure to receive £190m upgrade
The UK’s Ministry of Defence is to modernize the test and evaluation equipment and facilities…
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NASA’s Mars 2020 rover progresses through testing
In a little more than seven minutes in the early afternoon of February 18, 2021,…
Boeing developing teaming drone demonstrator in Australia
Boeing and the Australian Government are developing a concept demonstrator UAV system capable of team working with manned aircraft
A400M completes air-to-air refuelling tests
Airbus’s A400M military airlifter has taken a vital step towards its certification for air-to-air refueling operations as a tanker after the completion of a set of refueling test flights with its Cargo Hold Tanks.
Raytheon completes wind tunnel tests for extended range AMRAAM missile
Test engineers at US defence firm Raytheon have successfully completed more than 1,700 wind tunnel tests on the company’s extended-range variant of the AMRAAM air-to-air missile
Cobham to provide NATO electronic warfare training pods
Cobham has won a £50 million (US$65 million) to provide electronic warfare training pods to NATO’s Joint Electronic Warfare Core Staff
Bell V-280 Valor reaches 280 knots airspeed
Bell’s V-280 Valor achieved its optimal cruise speed of 280 knots last week during a test flight at the company’s Flight Research Center in Arlington, Texas
UK F-35Bs reach flight test milestone
First nine STOVL aircraft are based at RAF Marham, Norfolk
Bell-Boeing wins multi-million contract extension for V-22 Osprey testing
US$23 million contract extension is to fund the ongoing flight testing and evaluation of the V-22 Osprey test aircraft.
F-35 begins formal operational testing
The F-35 Lightning II program has reached a major milestone with the official start of its operational testing