The National Police Aviation Service have awarded a contract to deliver a Vulcanair P86R fixed surveillance aircraft to the Austrian company, Airborne Technologies. [browser-shot width=”600″ url=”;] [browser-shot width=”600″ url=”;] The NPAS had previously trialled a Tecnam MMA aircraft, an aircraft…
Due to the ongoing sequestration and budget battle in Washington the US Army has been forced to delay its Apache new build and rebuild programs to AH 64 E standards. This means the current type as used by the British…
An interesting video from DSTL on one of their research programmes On the subject of research programmes, have a look here and see the difference between previous years when it was all focussed on dismounted close combat and counter IED…
Nice picture of a Merlin HM1 fitted with an Electro Optical turret, you don’t tend to see many images from the MoD showing them fitted for some reason Remember everyone, commonality is a now a dirty word And here is…
Contract news… The MoD have placed an £6.8million order with SELEX for 15 Titan 385ES-HD electro optical turrets for use on RAF Chinooks. This comes on the back of a previous development and manufacture contract that saw 45 turrets and…
H/T Flight and Space
A snug fit!
Picked out of the Public Accounts Committee 18th Report on Carrier Strike are a few clarifications on the CROWSNEST project to replace the ageing Sea King ASaC Mk 7’s Q59 AM Hillier “I believe the main gate for Crowsnest is in…
The images are to show the PAX handlers at the Passenger Handling Facility (PHF), the Merlin doing PAX drop offs in Patrol Bases (PBs) and Check Points (CPs), dust landings and REME aircraft techs doing maintenance. Quality! Last post after…
