After a decade of deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq, the wings are literally falling off the USAF’s aging fleet of AC-130s. The Air Force thought about upgrading them to the new MC-27J Spartan ...

One of the most interesting thing I’ve found here at Farnborough Air Show 2012, is the first glimpse to a Special Operations version of the C-27J. Officially designated MC-27J, the main feature of the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — As the Gulf nations struggle to adjust to an evolving battlefield, Italian defense contractor Alenia Aermacchi is pitching its new MC-27J multi-mission airlifter and ...

Alenia Aermacchi, and ATK announced today that the demonstrator of a fully configured MC-27J multi-mission tactical transport aircraft completed its first flight from the company's Turin test flight ...

ATK and Alenia Aermacchi have successfully completed the first phase of ground and flight testing for the palletised gun system on the MC-27J gunship variant of the tactical transport with the support ...

announced that the Alenia/ATK team has been notified by the Italian Air Force they have been selected for the integration of the Roll-On/Roll-Off (RORO), palletized Command and Control, Intelligence, ...

Alenia Aermacchi and ATK will complete the first phase of testing for an armed, multi-mission version of the C-27J battlefield airlifter by the end of February. "The MC-27J version is not just a ...

In a media briefing held inside the fuselage of the C-27J CSX62127, Finmeccanica group’s company Alenia Aermacchi has unveiled a few more details about the new gunship version of the Spartan launched ...

TURIN, Italy, April 28 (UPI) -- A fully configured multi-mission tactical transport/gunship by Alenia Aermacchi has completed its first flight test in Italy, the company announced. The MC-27J ...

ARLINGTON, Va., July 16 (UPI) --A fully configured MC-27J multi-mission tactical aircraft has completed the first phase of ground and flight testing with the Italian Air Force. ATK of the United ...

The Italian Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to fund new multi-year programmes for the development of three Leonardo MC-27J Praetorian special operations aircraft and the acquisition of two new Boeing ...

PARIS -- Finmeccanica SpA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. have finished the first phase of a program to add a portable machine gun to the C-27J cargo plane as they hunt for sales abroad, officials said.