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Rotorcraft Forecast Commercial & Military

15-year global unit production (2018-2032) is
estimated at 23,215 aircraft, valued at $279.7 billion.

Military platforms include: Boeing CH-47F Chinook, NH Industries NH90, Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk and others.

Civil platforms include: Airbus Helicopters H160, Bell 525, Leonardo AW169 and others.

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Aviation Gas Turbine Forecast

Major Programs Covered: F-135, LEAP,
Trent, PW1000, GEnx, CFM56 and others.

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Military Aircraft Forecast

15-year global unit production (2018-2032) is
estimated at 8,100, valued at $548.2 billion.

Major Programs Covered:
F-35, KC-46A, A400M, Dassault Rafale, Embraer
Super Tucano, Saab Gripen, T-X and others
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Companies, Contractors, Force Structures & Budgets

Provides coverage on every major defense & aerospace
company worldwide, detailed contact information for
international contractors, and global defense spending
forecasts.
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International Military Markets

Coverage of 120 countries in six geopolitical regions, examining their military capabilities, equipment
requirements, and force structure inventories. Corresponding coverage of the political and economic
trends shaping the defense market outlook.

Asia, Australia, Pacific Rim
Eurasia
Europe
Latin America & Caribbean
Middle East
Africa
North America

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GLOBAL DEFENSE SPENDING SNAPSHOT

Space Systems Forecast

Satellite Programs
• OneWeb
• SSL 1300
• Spire

Launch Vehicle Programs
• Falcon 9
• Rocket Lab Electron
• Ariane 6

Human Spaceflight Programs
• Dragon
• CST-100 Starliner
• New Shepard

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Download the NEW White Paper
2017 LAUNCH VEHICLE YEAR IN REVIEW

Major Programs Covered:
MQ-9 Reaper - General Atomics
RQ-4 Global Hawk - Northrop Grumman
MQ-8 Fire Scout - Northrop Grumman
Heron - IAI
Hermes - Elbit Systems

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International Military Markets Asia Australia and Pacific Rim

International Military Markets - Asia, Australia &
Pacific Rim explores the series of factors
that combine to make the Asian continent
and greater Indo-Pacific oceanic areas today's greatest drivers of global defense growth. The conflicting ambitions, the internal security pressures, the potential flashpoints - all and more are covered to present a broad market perspective. Learn More

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Global Defense Spending Snapshot

FI BLOG

INDUSTRY NEWS

Airbus and Boeing Report August 2018 Commercial Aircraft Orders and Deliveries

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Boeing Reaffirms Full-Year Delivery Target, Makes Good Progress toward Fixing Delays by J. Kasper Oestergaard, European Correspondent. Boeing and Airbus delivered 64 and 54 commercial jets in August 2018, respectively, compared to 66 and 46 deliveries during the same month … Continue reading →

Bombardier Looks to Future After CSeries

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

by Richard Pettibone, Aerospace & Defense Companies Analyst, Forecast International. After years of difficulty, Bombardier has made some bold moves under its five-year restructuring plan, begun in 2015. The most dramatic of these steps has been the formation of a … Continue reading →

Emergency Medical Services Helping Drive Civil Helicopter Market

Monday, September 10, 2018

EC-135P-2, Lotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service), rescue action in Brodnica (Poland) . Source: Wikimedia Commons

By Ray Jaworowski, Senior Aerospace Analyst, Forecast International. The helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) sector has been one of the bright spots for civil rotorcraft manufacturers at a time when the industry has tended to struggle due to very low demand from … Continue reading →

Boeing MQ-25 Stingray Procurement Could Reach Over 150

Thursday, September 6, 2018

by Larry Dickerson, Unmanned Vehicles Analyst, Forecast International. The United States has selected Boeing as its contractor for the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial tanker. Boeing won an $805 million engineering and manufacturing development contract to provide four aircraft. The MQ-25 … Continue reading →

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DAC Approves Procurement of Equipment Worth Rs 9,100 Crores

Date: September 18, 2018

NEW DELHI -- The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Raksha Mantri Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, has approved for the procurement of equipment for the Defence Forces valued at over Rs 9,100 crores. Pursuing the goal of indigenisation and self-r ... Read more

Elon Musk Reveals Identity of Passenger to the Moon and Updates BFR Progress

Date: September 18, 2018

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- In a livestreamed presentation, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be the first paying passenger aboard the company's developmental Big Falcon Rocket (BFR). Maezawa plans to fly aboard the B ... Read more

Russian Il-20 Shot Down Over Syria

Date: September 17, 2018

DAMASCUS -- The Syrian air-defense force shot down a Russian Il-20 electronic and radar reconnaissance aircraft, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Late on September 17, 2018, a Russian Il-20 was shot down by the Syrian military in a fr ... Read more

ECA Group supplies its COBRA UGV for Counter IED/EOD to Thai Armed Forces

Date: September 17, 2018

PARIS -- ECA Group awarded a new contract with the Thai Armed Forces for the supply of several units of Cobra E. ECA Group is working with Apple Scientific Co., Ltd, its Thailand partner. The Thai Armed Forces was looking for a system able to hel ... Read more

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To get supersonic business jets off the ground, Aerion Corp. is building planes that don't go 'boom'

By: Samantha Masunaga
Date: 09/11/2018

Plans to launch supersonic commercial jet travel have long been hampered by a U.S. ban on such flight over land. But rather than limit routes to transoceanic travel, Aerion Corp. of Reno plans to push its AS2 supersonic business jet right to the limit — flying just a hair below supersonic when above ground, then speeding up to Mach 1.4 over water. Maneuvering around that rule will be crucial for the handful of companies including Aerion that want to establish a market for supersonic business jets. Spike Aerospace Inc. of Boston is developing a needle-nose plane that would travel at Mach 1.6 and ferry 12 to 18 private passengers. Boom Technology Inc. of Englewood, Colo., plans to build a 55-seat supersonic airliner that would have a per-seat ticket cost on par with business-class travel. Today’s supersonic jet manufacturers hope to avoid the problems that plagued the Concorde airliner, which flew for the last time in 2003. The Concorde was ultimately doomed by high maintenance costs, a soft market for air travel after the Sept. 11 attacks, and its high ticket price — as much as $18,260 for a London-to-New York round-trip flight, in 2017 dollars — which left many seats empty. Sonic-boom restrictions kept the Concorde on mostly transatlantic routes. .... Read more

Air Force Takes Steps to Replace Aging Hueys

By: Yasmin Tadjdeh
Date: 09/04/2018

The safety of the United States’ nuclear missile silos — which make up one third of the nuclear triad — are ensured by a fleet of aging UH-1N Huey helicopters. Following years of delays, the Air Force is poised to make a contract decision on which company will provide its replacements. Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky, Sierra Nevada Corp. and a Boeing-Leonardo team are all vying for the Air Force contract to build 84 platforms. With bids in, the three companies are awaiting a final decision by the service. Both Sikorsky and Sierra Nevada are offering helicopters based off the Black Hawk, and Leonardo-Boeing is offering a system based off the AW139. The award — which is due by the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018 — is a long time coming, with the program facing a number of delays and obstacles over the years. .... Read more

New Global Debut

Kenneth I. Swartz
Date: 08/20/2018

In May, Bombardier Business Aircraft (BBA) upstaged its major competitors at the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) in Switzerland when it revealed it had been secretly flying a new member of the Global corporate jet family, powered by a brand new turbofan engine. .... Read more

Farnborough show generates most plane orders since Paris ’13, industry analyst says

By: Howard French
Date: 07/21/2018

England’s Farnborough Air Show, which wraps up on Sunday, by and large has been a good one for East Hartford-based Pratt & Whitney, which has landed hundreds of millions of dollars in new orders for its geared turbofan engine. It has been even more productive than many analysts had predicted for the major aircraft manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus, both of which ended up receiving “an impressive number of orders,” Ray Jaworowski, senior aerospace analyst with Newtown-based Forecast International, said. As of Friday, orders, memoranda of understandings and other commitments to buy aircraft totaled more than 1,400, Jaworowski said. That’s more than at the 2017 Paris Air Show and the 2016 Farnborough show, he said. .... Read more

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