A fifth EQ-4 will soon join the fleet of manned and unmanned aircraft that carry a Northrop Grumman-built comm gateway payload called the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node.
Israeli sources say Houthi rebels in Yemen have downed a Chinese-made UAV operated by Saudi Arabia using an air-to-air missile adapted by the Iranians to be fired from the ground.
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), the developer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, has teamed with industry and academia to develop an electrical propulsion system for the aircraft.
An helicopter assembly line owned by Airbus and Chinese state partners has begun putting together its first H135s, with deliveries due to begin this year.
Egypt has reportedly opted to buy a fleet of AW149 twin-engine utility helos to meet its requirements for a ship-borne tactical transport and assault helo.
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 sample return mission to the asteroid Ryugu has completed a low-altitude surveillance operation over the site where it dropped an explosive charge in early April to expose subsurface material for a planned second attempt to land and gather soil and rock.
A Japanese-U.S. partnership has unveiled a vision for launching a family of stratospheric, solar-powered UAS to provide mobile comm and remote sensing services.
The first test flight of a privately developed Chinese reusable space launcher hurled an experimental hypersonic waverider vehicle to a speed faster than 2,800 mph on April 23.
Northrop Grumman Technical Services, Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded a $44,395,362 modification (P00040) to previously awarded contract FA8540-12-C-0004 for the production of electronic attack pods.
The security squad protecting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now is carrying a gun-like system that can disrupt the communication systems of s dxe443uspicious drones.
The U.S. Army has awarded five other transaction authority prototype agreements for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft two months ahead of schedule.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is creating an Office of Spaceports and a new research enterprise focused on commercial space, safety and innovation.
Boeing has awarded L3 Commercial Aviation a contract to supply a traffic alert and collision avoidance (TCAS) processor and flight-data recorder for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray unmanned refueling tanker.
Grand Sky Business and Aviation Park near Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Harris Corporation have unveiled a 100-mi.-long “super corridor” that supports flights of UAS BVLOS of their operators.
The head of Britain’s Defense Safety Authority has called on the defense ministry to make better use of simulation to train UAV crews after a spate of accidents involving Thales’ Watchkeeper.
Garmin International on April 24 announced the recent first flight milestone of a Northrop F-5 fighter equipped with its G3000 integrated avionics suite.
