Italian defense and aerospace firm Leonardo-Finmeccanica is to establish a new U.K. entity focused on its three main core businesses: aerospace, defense and security.
The ability of V-22 Osprey tiltrotors to perform carrier onboard delivery missions at night will offer the U.S. Navy greater potential to move passengers and cargo to and from the ships than the aircraft currently doing those operations, a Navy vice admiral says.
The loss earlier this week of another Hornet, an F-18C, is keeping the Navy on pace for is most expensive year for aircraft incidents since fiscal 2009, an Aviation Week analysis of Navy Safety Center record shows.
Shareholders of Pentagon tactical radio and FAA services provider Harris are seeing a slight boost in stock price after the federal contractor revealed a new stake by an activist investor, a development that has also spurred talk of divestitures.
FAA commercial-space officials have authorized a robotic lunar lander and a suborbital human spacecraft for flight, marking a regulatory double play for the private spaceflight industry.
As Air Force Special Operations Command’s legion of night-flying killers wreak havoc on battlefields around the globe from the AC-130 Stinger II and Spooky gunship, the first up-punched AC-130J Ghostrider armed with a 105-mm cannon has arrived at Hurlburt Field in Florida for developmental testing.
A top U.S. Air Force general has questioned the viability of a new plan being kicked around inside the service to pursue not one but two new aircraft programs to recapitalize the close-air support mission, signaling that Air Force leadership is still cool to the idea.
India will launch the advanced meteorological satellite Insat-3DR later this month in an attempt to improve the country’s weather forecasting and disaster warning capabilities.
An operational demonstration aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson helped determine how best to integrate V-22 Ospreys with other carrier-deck movements.
More details have begun to emerge about the plan of BAE Systems and India’s Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) to develop a light attack version of the Hawk jet trainer.
The decision to declare the Air Force’s F-35A operational close to its target date of Aug. 1 is a triumph for a program with a long history of cost overruns, technological challenges, and schedule delays.
Patricia Sanders, an independent aerospace consultant and retired executive director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, will chair NASA’s seven-member Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, an independent group of experts responsible for advising the agency’s administrator on a range of safety issues.
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s $7.3 billion rejuvenation of the B61, America’s 1960s-vintage thermonuclear bomb, has entered the “production engineering” phase after four years of development work, with the first refurbished unit expected by fiscal 2020.
Building on the success of the government-industry Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) in reducing airline accident rates, the FAA is chartering an Unmanned Aircraft Safety Team (UAST) to address issues raised by growing unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operations.
