Editorial Assistant
Defense Daily
Ph: 703-522-2012
Brian Garrett-Glaser
Articles By Brian
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GeneralAW159 Wildcat Helicopter Helps Royal Navy Net Record Drug Busts
The Leonardo AW159 helicopter — dubbed the Wildcat by the Royal Navy — has helped HMS Dragon and 815 Naval Air Squadron net eight drug busts since last September, and […]
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Missile DefenseState Department Approves $240m AMRAAM Sale to Australia
The State Department approved the sale of up to 108 Raytheon [RTN] AIM-120C-7 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) and related equipment for an estimated sale price of $240.5 million. […]
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ArmySierra Nevada Will Upgrade Old Alpha-Model Black Hawks on the Cheap
ATLANTA — Sierra Nevada Corp. is taking the Army’s old UH-60As, some with more than 16,000 flight hours on them, and installing upgrades that bring the old birds nearly to […]
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Navy/USMCAirbus Touts Four-Axis Autopilot on H135 to Improve Navy Training
ABOVE ATLANTA — Airbus is touting the four-axis autopilot on the company’s twin-engine H135 aircraft as a way to improve Navy training by getting student pilots ready for hazardous, night-time […]
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Navy/USMCAirbus Selects Pratt & Whitney PW206B3 for H135 Navy Trainer Proposal
Airbus Helicopters has selected the Pratt & Whitney [UTX] PW206B3 engine to power its twin-engine H135 IFR-certified helicopter, which the company is offering as the U.S. Navy’s replacement trainer. “In […]
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ArmyMD Hypes New Winged ‘Swift’ Variant of 969 For Army’s New Attack Recon Aircraft
ATLANTA — MD Helicopters is jumping into the U.S. Army Future Attack Recon Aircraft (FARA) competition with a new, all-composite, winged version of its 969 twin-engine attack aircraft. The new […]
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ArmyMeeting ‘Military Specification’ Helicopter Requirements a ‘Game Changer’ for Spectrolab, President Says
ATLANTA— Founded by the late physicist and entrepreneur Alfred Mann in 1956–a year before the Soviet Sputnik launch, Spectrolab has focused its business on solar space cell research and production […]
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ArmyBell CEO Agrees V-280 Program At Mercy of Future Army Funding
Bell’s [TXT] chief executive shares the view of parent company Textron leadership that internal investment in the V-280 Valor program should sundown at year-end without new funding streams from the […]
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman to Develop Open-Architecture Embedded GPS For Military Aircraft
The Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $59 million contract to develop an embedded GPS system for the F-22 Raptor and other aircraft. The embedded GPS/INS-modernization (EGI-M) program […]
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ArmyAirbus a RACER in US Army Future Attack-Recon Aircraft Competition
MARIGNANE, France — Airbus Helicopters is responding to the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program with a concept based on its new high-speed civilian helicopter prototype, according to […]