Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera has denied that the country has ruled out developing an indigenous fighter, even as a second local newspaper casts doubt on the plan.
Dassault CEO Eric Trappier on March 8 expressed disappointment in the lack of progress in the Anglo-French unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator program.
The U.S. Air Force is once again under fire from U.S. lawmakers over its fumbling of a helicopter program to replace the Bell UH-IN Huey, which has been in active service since 1970.
For the first time since the MSL Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012, scientists have used one of the rover’s sealed wet chemistry cups to seek organic compounds.
Completing a demo for a huge first-stage rocket engine, maybe in 2018, is among tech acquisition projects that China’s main space industry group is undertaking.
In his first public appearance in the newly created role of undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, former NASA administrator Mike Griffin stressed that near-peer adversaries like Russia and China are making advances in hypersonics that pose serious threats to U.S. forces.
Australia is closer to achieving its “OneSky” goal of merging its civilian and military air traffic control systems after signing $936 million in contracts.
Indonesia is set to become the second export customer of the Airbus A400M airlifter, with the state-owned enterprise ministry intending to buy two aircraft.
Boeing’s master schedule currently pegs first aircraft delivery to the fleet in the second quarter, but the Air Force now believes delivery is more likely to occur in late 2018.
If it takes as long to field a sixth-generation fighter aircraft as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has, the warplane “may already be irrelevant.”
Instead of large, manned, vulnerable aircraft providing command and control and ground surveillance, the USAF now wants a more survivable, networked approach.
