Airbus Helicopters is set to certify a new lightweight health and usage monitoring system (HUMS), finally opening the technology to light helicopter operators.
Ahead of its certification firing trials, the weaponized configuration of India’s indigenous Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) TD-3 recently executed the successful firing of 70-mm rockets.
Boeing and the Paramount Group plan to cooperate on a militarized version of the high-wing, two-seat Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft (Ahrlac) to be named Mwari. Boeing will develop an integrated mission system that will enable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and weapons systems.
A Russian Proton-M/Briz-M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 14 carrying the European-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission en route to the Red Planet.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved possible $95m Foreign Military Sale to Indonesia of 36 AIM-120C-7 Amraams, one missile guidance section, related equipment/services. L-3 COMMUNICATIONS has U.S. Navy contract to provide depot-level maintenance for F/A-18 A/B/C/D fleet. L-3’s Platform Integration division in Waco, Texas, will prime while L-3 MAS in Quebec, Canada, will inspect/modify aircraft structure.
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Airbus has offered to transfer the final assembly line of its AS565 MBe Panther from France to India if it wins the bid for the country’s proposed naval utility helicopter (NUH).
Space marathoner Scott Kelly will retire from NASA on April 1, one month after setting two U.S. spaceflight records aboard the International Space Station and 20 years after his selection to the agency’s astronaut corps.
French aerospace and defense firm Safran is looking at “potential options” for its security business after announcing plans to sell off its airport explosive detection business.
An Australian company is proposing retractable floats for the Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules to create a U.S. equivalent of the TA600 amphibious aircraft under development by Avic.
The National Aeronautic Association has selected the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory team responsible for the Dawn mission to the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres as the recipient of the 2015 Collier Trophy.
A prototype of a laser system that enables UAVs to downlink data at high speed without complex equipment on the vehicle has been flight tested in the U.K.
The Airbus Perlan Mission II team has begun pressurized flight tests of the Perlan 2 stratospheric glider ahead of an attempt to set a world altitude record this summer in flights from southern Argentina.
An attempt to make the first “zero-carbon” flight across the Atlantic in a hybrid solar- and biofuel-powered aircraft has been tentatively scheduled for June.
Intelsat General and L-3 Communications have demonstrated that a two-three times increase in data throughput for unmanned aircraft will be possible using Intelsat’s new-generation Epic communications satellites.
Kepler Mission Manager Charles Sobek said March 11 the observatory will repoint itself into its forward velocity vector “instead of looking toward where it’s been” beginning in April.
The Russian government has approved the privatization of two key defense companies that are sanctioned by the West: Russian Helicopters and avionics specialist Concern Radioelectronic Technologies (KRET).
Since Feb. 11, the U.S. Air Force has been trying to regain command and control of one of its weather satellites, Defense Meteorological Program (DMSP) Flight 19.
India will launch 25 foreign satellites this year and next year using its indigenous launch vehicle as it strives to increase its presence in the global space launch market.
The Defense Department (DOD) follows U.S. laws for UAVs, but must pass up potential training opportunities as a result, according to a recent report by the Pentagon Inspector General (IG) office.
The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2017 budget plan to cut a carrier air wing could affect the service’s future carrier force structure, according to a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report.
