As the KC-390 gets a new name and a new owner, a marketing battle with Lockheed Martin’s C-130 is intensifying over the future market of commercial derivatives of military airlifters.
In a surprise announcement on the third day of the Dubai Airshow, UAE defense officials confirmed they were in final negotiations with Saab for an additional two GlobalEyes.
NASA has cleared five more companies to bid for upcoming lunar payload flight service contracts, including SpaceX, which is offering its Mars-class reusable Starship vehicle.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Nov. 18 sustained a protest by Blue Origin of the U.S. Air Force’s National Security Space Launch procurement.
Mechanical damage to a sensor allowed pressurizing gas to activate and separate the stages of a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle in October 2018, resulting in the first Soyuz launch abort in 35 years.
Subaru expects to have production facilities for the Bell 412EPX helicopter ready before April 2021 for a licensed manufacturing program underpinned by a Japanese army requirement.
The Japanese government is promoting technological cooperation between local industry and Boeing in aircraft electrification and high-rate composites manufacturing, aiming at expanding the country’s traditionally limited roles in aircraft manufacturing.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) plans to develop and demonstrate a range of new tactical capabilities for its family of unmanned air vehicles as part of an ongoing initiative to align more closely to the U.S. Defense Department’s shift to a near-peer National Defense Strategy.
U.S. House lawmakers in a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) derided an “irresponsible proposal” to have federal air marshals operate counter-drone systems near airports.
Lockheed Martin is trying to shorten the delivery time for Japan’s two Aegis Ashore systems in response to the government’s desire for as quick a program as possible, a company representative said.
An Emirati and South African joint venture building precision guidance kits for dumb bombs is working on a range extension program to be able to reach targets well in excess of 120 km (75 mi.).
Russia’s defense industry expects to finalize at least $2.5 billion in new arms export sales by the end of the year, Rostec chief executive officer Sergei Chemezov said at the Dubai Air Show.
Heat shields for hypersonic vehicles are usually thick, heavy and hard to manufacture, but researchers have demonstrated thin and flexible thermal protection using carbon nanotubes.
U.S. Air Force is pursuing the idea of a new “Century Series” for satellites in which the service would create a spacecraft bus with common components that can be customized for specific missions.
The U.S. Navy is sounding the alarm over how an extended continuing budget resolution in fiscal 2020 would affect the military’s aircraft carrier fleet and aviation readiness.
European Space Agency and NASA astronauts Luca Parmitano and Drew Morgan successfully initiated a complex series of spacewalks outside the International Space Station on Nov. 15, working ahead of schedule to begin a thermal control system overhaul on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS).
Lower deliveries caused by the Boeing 737 MAX grounding, as well as a union strike, and new program costs combined to cut into Canadian aerostructures provider AvCorp Group’s latest quarterly earnings, the company revealed Nov. 15.
The Pentagon has outlined a plan to increase F-35 Autonomic Logistics Information System usability by September 2020 and believes it can be achieved without requesting additional funding from Congress.
The German military is not accepting the latest delivery of two Airbus A400M aircraft because they do not meet contractual guarantees, the German Air Force said Nov. 13.
