A keel beam corrosion scare earlier this year caused the USAF to briefly ground 396 KC-135s for a fleet-wide inspection that identified 15 affected aircraft.
NASA has selected the Atlas V for the 2021 launching of Lucy, a 12-year mission to explore the Trojan asteroids that accompany Jupiter as it orbits the Sun.
Germany has excluded the F-35 as a potential replacement for the Panavia Tornado and shortlisted both the Eurofighter and Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet.
UK lawmakers warn that the affordability gap in the country’s defense spending plans could widen to $20 billion if it does not bring its planning under control.
Northrop Grumman saw higher 4Q 2018 revenue from a black program in its Manned Aircraft business unit, but expects 2019 revenue for the program and unit to be flat.
In the service’s second air accident in a week, an Indian Air Force Mirage 2000 trainer has crashed in the south Indian city of Bengaluru, killing two pilots.
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) aims to build a foreign civil aircraft under license beginning 2023 while developing its own 60-seat design for sale in 2030, its chief executive said
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On Jan 28 the Colombian Navy announced its intention to equip its two recently purchased AS365 Dauphins with an anti-submarine warfare capability and anti-surface warfare capability via over-the-horizon missiles.
The U.S. Navy should acknowledge a new cost overrun and a schedule delay on the Sikorsky CH-53K development program to fix multiple design problems, the Pentagon’s top weapons tester says.
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $14.9 billion contract to Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding to finalize a two-ship aircraft carrier buy.
A U.S. defense budget expert says proposals to dramatically increase the size of the USAF and Navy should be sacrificed for higher spending on modernization.
Raytheon is seeing astronomical growth in classified military orders, but it could also spur some near-term disappointment with investors and financial analysts.
Secretive startup Joby Aviation says its S4 five-seat eVTOL air taxi will be capable of flying at 200 mph and operate at noise levels 100 times quieter than a helicopter.
Boeing delivered two more KC-46 tanker aircraft to the U.S. Air Force on Jan. 31, less than a week after handing over the first two jets, the company said.
Bell has begun flight tests of the largest version yet of its tail-sitting electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) Autonomous Pod Transport (APT).
