Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

KOUROU, French Guiana — A new round of U.S. and European sanctions leveled at Russia’s rising aggression against Ukraine could slow a key decision

Eyeing emerging threats while acknowledging the constrained budget environment in Washington, U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command Chief Gen. Mike

JAVELIN TEST: Raytheon and Lockheed Martin recently fired a Javelin missile from a remote weapon station installed on a wheeled vehicle at Redstone

LONDON — The U.K. Defense Ministry has secured funding to retain its fleet of General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles after the end of

LONDON — The aerospace arm of engineering company GKN has recorded reduced sales but slightly higher profits during the first six months of 2014. The

The first two of four U.S. Air Force Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites – designed to provide unprecedented

World View Enterprises, the Tucson, Arizona-based startup developing commercial high-altitude balloon gondolas to take adventure seekers to the edge

HONOLULU — The Rim of the Pacific (Rimpac) exercise has highlighted the U.S. Navy’s efforts to continue Secretary Ray Mabus’ call for increasing the

The French army has been conducting environmental trials with the latest version of its Tiger attack helicopter, the Tiger HAD. The HAD, which entered

HOUSTON — Cassini, the long-running, NASA-led mission to Saturn, has detected 101 distinct geysers erupting from the south pole of Saturn’s moon

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/07/asd_07_30_2014_crs7.pdf

RNAS YEOVILTON, U.K. — Lockheed Martin and Thales U.K. are preparing for flight tests of their products to meet the U.K.’s Crowsnest helicopter-borne

HONOLULU — A veteran P-3 naval aviator, Adm. Harry Harris, the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet commander, knows what it is like to fly the Orion on long missions. “After hours in a P-3, you are tired,” he says. “You’ve got all of these vibrations.”

MARTIAN MILEAGE: NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover has traveled 25 mi. (40 km) over the surface of the Red Planet since landing there more than a decade

The U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding and maintenance plans already have some observers worried about the future availability of nuclear-powered submarines and

LONDON — The government of Tunisia is hoping to purchase a fleet of heavily armed UH-60 Black Hawks, as the country modernizes its armed forces. The

NEW DELHI — The Indian air force (IAF) received its sixth Boeing C-17 heavy transport aircraft July 28, and the airframer is expected to complete the

Avic’s general aviation subsidiary, Caiga, will begin assembly of the first Avic TA600 amphibious firefighting and sea-rescue aircraft at the end of

HOUSTON — A small, multinational team of astronauts is finding that texting rather than speaking by voice may be the most efficient means of

HONOLULU, Hawaii — The U.S. Marine Corps tested a half-scale Ultra Heavy-lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC) prototype at the Marine Corps Training Area

HONOLULU, Hawaii — The U.S. Marine Corps tested a half-scale Ultra Heavy-lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC) prototype at the Marine Corps Training Area

A team of U.S. Navy engineers recently completed a 3-D computer animation model of the interior of Virginia-class submarine SSN 775 USS Texas to help

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/07/asd_07_29_2014_crs6.pdf

ANTO, Italy — The Italian navy is working to develop the ballistic missile defense (BMD) capability of its Orizzonte-class air-defense ships and pave the way for BMD systems to be installed on a new class of ship to be launched in the early 2020s.

Lockheed Martin has rolled out the first two F-35A Lightnings for Australia, and the country has immediate plans to buy 72 of the fighters. Delivery of the first fighters is scheduled to begin this year, but initially the Royal Australian Air Force will base the two aircraft, called AU-1 and AU-2, at the Luke AFB, near Phoenix, Arizona. There they will join F-35s used for multinational pilot training.