Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The proposal will include sensors and armaments to enable the Yak-130 trainer’s conversion into a combat aircraft.

Saudi Arabia has signed a $945 million downpayment for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system from Lockheed Martin, the Defense Department announced March 4.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense is likely to move ahead with an attack helicopter acquisition in 2019, even though the program was left out of a five-year procurement plan published in December, an industry source says.

Safran is planning to develop a turbogenerator system for future hybrid-electric vertical take-off-and-landing air vehicles.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has more than one prospective buyer for the C-2 airlifter, a company executive said.

The company is predicting growth in the law-enforcement market and increased fleet utilization from oil-and-gas crew change operators.

NASA’s Mars Insight lander has begun to dig deeper into the subsurface than any previous mission.

Dassault’s Eric Trappier has confirmed that work with Britain’s BAE Systems on an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator has ended.

Work on an engine for the TF-X fighter have been “substantially ramped down” Rolls-Royce CEO Warren East says.

Aviation Week flies Sikorsky’s autonomous S-76 testbed as the company reveals its interest in the urban air mobility market.

The new vehicle, Dragon 2, is designed, built, owned and operated by SpaceX, with financial backing, technical expertise and oversight provided by NASA.

Uncrewed Dragon 2 mission a key step toward the resumption of human orbital flight from the U.S.

POLAND announced plans to purchase “5th generation” fighter as soon as possible, following release of new military modernization plan covering through 2026 containing a bump in spending from $37b to $49b.

Honeywell plans to display a hybrid-electric turbogenerator for the urban air mobility market at the Helicopter Association International’s Heli-Expo show in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 5-7.

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Singapore will buy four Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) for initial testing, with an option for eight more, its defense minister says.

GE Aviation has released the design of a next-generation military jet engine to suppliers.

“As of this morning we are still not accepting KC-46s, and I believe that will continue for some time,” Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, told journalists March 1

The U.S. Navy is working hard to develop a pilot syllabus and conduct unit-level events to fold fifth-generation fighter capability into the carrier air wing.

U.S. antitrust officials have cleared French defense giant Thales to complete its roughly $5.5 billion acquisition of digital security company Gemalto.

The Pentagon has sent a legislative proposal to Capitol Hill that anticipates establishing a Space Force headquarters in fiscal 2020 comprising 200 people for about $72 million.

Leonardo Helicopters has developed a new training concept for pilots and engineers preparing for its AW609 commercial tiltrotor.

Berlin’s STH program is set to choose between Boeing’s CH-47 Chinook and the Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion to replace its aging fleet of 70 licence-produced Sikorsky CH-53G Stallions.

Space stalwart Maxar Technologies has decided to cut 4% of its staff, drop marquee brands in a restructuring, and keep its geostationary satellite manufacturing business.

The International Court of Justice has called upon the UK to cede its control of the British Indian Ocean Territories (BIOT), the site of the U.S. airbase on Diego Garcia.