The defense ministry’s awarding of the contract to KAI was the company’s second big win for 2015. Far more than the first, for the LCH-LAH helicopter, the KF-X should be transformative for the company.

Military engine market remains a challenge, while civil engine business continues record-breaking run.

From the commercial-aircraft ramp-up and small-UAV explosion to U.S. defense budget pressures and Europe’s response to Russian aggression, 2016 will be a dynamic year for the aerospace and defense industry.

The Office of Naval Research’s Laser Weapon System Demonstrator will be designed to protect the U.S. Navy’s DDG-51 Flight 2 destroyers from unmanned aircraft and swarming small boats.

Humans remain at the heart of the Pentagon’s evolving strategy to restore U.S. conventional deterrence, but machines will play a key and increasing role from intelligence analysis to combat operations.

Tiny ADS-B for UAVs; better materials, lighter diesels; NASA seeks clean-sheet thinking on 2035 airspace; Basque partners combine additive and subtractive

A320neo and C Series enter service; F-35A goes operational, JAS 39E flies; emissions measures and tracking mandates for aviation; contract protests and consolidation pressures; unmanned aircraft and suborbital spaceplanes—things will come in pairs in 2016.

Countering UAS, beating brownout, robotic copilots, communication by laser, and building-block satellites are among advances that could make the news in 2016 and beyond.