DefenceTalkGlobal aviation’s Farnborough airshow opens Monday amid a sweltering heatwave, with the sector aided by a modest recovery in air traffic and with Ukraine boosting defence budgets. Tens of thousands of visitors will flock to the five-day show, held southwest of London, as weather forecasters warn of scorching record temperatures in England. “It’s going to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/farnborough-airshow-opens-amid-heatwave-79097/

DefenceTalkChina on Tuesday showed off its increasingly sophisticated air power including surveillance drones, with an eye on disputed territories from Taiwan to the South China Sea and its rivalry with the United States. The country’s biggest airshow, in the southern coastal city of Zhuhai, comes as Beijing pushes to meet a 2035 deadline to retool […]

More than 70 exhibitors including US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin have pulled out of the Singapore Airshow over concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, but organizers insisted Sunday that Asia’s biggest aviation event would still go ahead. Precautionary measures — including a major reduction in public attendance and temperature screenings — have been imposed ahead of […]

DefenceTalkMultiple J-20 stealth fighter jets were spotted in the skies above Zhuhai, South China’s Guangdong Province on Tuesday, in preparation for Airshow China 2018 in November, a military expert said. Four J-20s under the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force flew over the Zhuhai Jinwan Airport at about 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Two J-20 formations, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/j-20-stealth-fighters-to-join-airshow-china-2018-in-zhuhai-71924/

DefenceTalkThis year’s Farnborough air show was not a vintage year for aircraft orders, analysts say, a gloomy outlook clouded by Brexit and further darkening as European giant Airbus slashed output of its A380 superjumbo. Airbus’ announcement late Tuesday that the Franco-German planemaker would halve A380 production to one a month from 2018 caused some turbulence […]https://www.defencetalk.com/uk-airshow-wobbles-on-weak-demand-as-brexit-clouds-out-67827/

DefenceTalkRussia is now the world’s leading exporter of new multirole fighter jets, a Moscow-based research center said Tuesday. Russia’s Center for the Analysis of the Global Arms Trade said, when calculated in volume terms, Russia was the market-leader for the supply of multirole fighter jets for 2009-2012, according to figures from Russia’s arms exporter Rosoboronexport. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-leads-multirole-fighter-jet-sales-market-48899/

DefenceTalkAn array of large-scale contracts have been signed on the first day of the MAKS-2013 airshow, just outside Moscow. Defense The United Aircraft Corporation and the Defense Ministry have signed a 80 billion ruble ($2.5 billion) contract for the servicing of aircraft, avionics and related equipment, the UAC said in a press release. The contract, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/major-deals-signed-at-moscows-maks-2013-airshow-48895/