Editorial Assistant
Defense Daily
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Brian Garrett-Glaser
Articles By Brian
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Navy/USMCBids Are In For New Navy Training Helicopter
Bids are in and the decision on which new helicopter trainer to buy resides with the Navy, which can select from three well-known challengers. April 2 was the deadline for […]
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GeneralTiger and NH-90 Helicopters Employed in Mali After IED Destroys Armored Vehicle
During a French army counter-terror operation in Mali on April 2, an improvised explosive device destroyed an armored vehicle in the group. The French Army employed an Airbus Tiger attack […]
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ArmyU.S. Army Plans to Divest All Alpha-Model Black Hawks by 2024
The U.S. Army plans to get rid of all its UH-60 A-model Black Hawks from the National Guard by fiscal year 2022 and the active duty force by 2024, a […]
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SpaceNASA Mars Helicopter: ‘The Next Time We Fly, We Fly on Mars’
In July 2020, NASA will send a new rover to Mars and in its belly will ride a helicopter capable of flight in the Red Planet’s unforgiving, low-density atmosphere. Scientists […]
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ArmyArmy Selects Two Companies for RQ-7 Shadow Replacement
The Army has chosen two companies to produce unmanned aircraft systems to replace the RQ-7 Shadow scout drone in use since 2001. The service selected Martin UAV and Textron [TXT] […]
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ArmyBoeing Wants to Field Upgraded Compound Apache by 2028
Boeing [BA] has conducted wind tunnel testing of a 30 percent scale model of an AH-64E Block II compound helicopter, which the company believes it could field by 2028 to […]
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ArmyChinook Block II Makes First Flight, But Without New Rotor Blades
Without the added lift of the new advanced composite rotor blades it eventually will sport, the first CH-47 Chinook Block II test aircraft achieved first flight March 28 at Boeing’s […]
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ArmyArmy Aviation Leader: Time to Choose a Future Long-Range Assault Helicopter
The Army is itching to leave the demonstration phase and in 2019 launch its official competition for a high-speed, long-range UH-60 Black Hawk replacement, according to service aviation officials. If […]
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Air ForceUpgraded U.S. Air Force Trainer T-1A Completes First Flight
The first U.S. Air Force T-1A Jayhawk upgraded with a Collins Aerospace [COL] Pro Line 21 avionics suite recently completed its first successful flight. Under an Air Force avionics modernization […]
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Unmanned SystemsBelgium to Purchase Four MQ-9B SkyGuardian Drones for $600 Million
The State Department has approved the possible foreign military sale of four MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned aircraft and related equipment to NATO ally Belgium for an estimated cost of $600 million. […]