Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The MiG-31 interceptor has taken on new tasks as the Kinzhal ground-strike system and as an aerospace missile system that can deliver small satellites to orbit or fight enemy satellites.

To be located in New Zealand, orbit-debris-mapping startup LeoLab’s latest ground radar will track objects down to 2 cm in size.

To be located in New Zealand, orbit-debris-mapping startup LeoLab’s latest ground radar will track objects down to 2 cm in size.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has confirmed that S-300 surface-to-air missile systems have begun arriving in Syria.

BOEING has $198.9m U.S. Army contract for Chinook H-47 forward and aft rotor blades and associated containers.

Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Bill Grimes, the former director of the service’s secretive Big Safari special mission aircraft shop, has died.

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An F-35B flown by British pilots completed the first landing and take-off aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 25, becoming the first fixed-wing aircraft to operate on a Royal Navy carrier at sea in eight years.

AUSTRALIA broke ground on new Defense Satellite Ground Station at Kapooka, New South Wales.

AUSTRALIA broke ground on new Defense Satellite Ground Station at Kapooka, New South Wales.

A fault in manufacturing a rotor mast caused the crash of a Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) Surion helicopter of the South Korean marine corps on July 17, the Ministry of Defense says.

Much as commercial aero engine companies moved years ago toward selling their powerplants below cost to secure marketshare, Boeing Defense may be headed in the same direction with recent program wins including T-X.

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An F-35B stationed at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort in South Carolina crashed near the Broad River there Sept.

A deep-sea salvage project to recover the remains of a U.S. Navy C-2A resting 18,500 ft. below the surface of the Philippine Sea could be postponed by several months due to weather, a senior official says.

A fault in manufacturing a rotor mast caused the crash of a Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) Surion helicopter of the South Korean marine corps on July 17, the Ministry of Defense said.

After a one-year delay, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin have finalized an $11.5 billion contract for the production and delivery of 141 F-35 Lightning II aircraft.

Bell has demonstrated its Hydra distributed-propulsion vertical-takeoff-and-landing testbed at Canada’s Unmanned Aircraft System Center of Excellence in Alma, Quebec.

The Indian air force has test-fired the indigenous Astra beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile as part of a sequence of trials leading up to the system’s induction into the military.

Efforts by the U.S. Air Force to “protest-proof” the T-X acquisition program will now be put to the test following Boeing's win.

RAYTHEON has $46.7m U.S. Navy contract for technical maturation/risk reduction of Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Navy.

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U.S. Air Force’s contract for trainers comes on the heels of Huey replacement and carrier-based UAV wins.

House lawmakers who favor establishing a U.S. Space Corps within the U.S. Air Force are dismissing Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson’s memo that cited a $12.9 billion initial cost estimate to establish a separate Space Force service.