Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

IRBUS HELICOPTERS and KOREA AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES agreed to jointly market ...

Turkey has asked to buy hundreds of Joint Direct Attack Munition...

No one in U.S. naval shipbuilding is under a brighter spotlight these days than ...

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The 10-year global military aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) market will be worth $716 billion through 2025.
Defense and Space

By Jens Flottau
The U.K. government temporarily halted all outbound flights from Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, and will not allow any departures to the holiday resort over concerns Metrojet Flight 9268 may have been brought down by a bomb.

Charged solar wind particles have changed Mars from a planet that was warmer and wetter to the cold desert we see today, data from a new NASA probe show.
Defense and Space

NASA has set a new date for selecting one or more private space-launch providers to deliver cargo to the International Space Station in the second round of its Commercial Resupply Services competition.
Defense and Space

The first Israeli air force C-130H to be fitted with modernized Elbit Systems avionics has flown for “dozens” of hours in its flight test program.
Defense and Space

More complete design work and technology maturity will make the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy a more stable and affordable program, U.S. Navy officials say.
Defense and Space

U.S. warship patrols to prove the Navy’s freedom of navigation in the South China Sea in defiance of Chinese territorial claims could possibly lead to Japan buying new aircraft for such missions, a Japanese scholar says.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
The Indian and Russian armies will focus on counterterrorism in this year’s joint “Exercise Indra-2015,” to be held Nov. 7-Nov. 20.
Defense and Space

U.S. AIR FORCE completed first three airborne gunfire bursts from...

The worldwide military unmanned ground vehicle market will reach...

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By Jen DiMascio
Italy is in line to be the second country after the U.K. to receive U.S.-made MQ-9 Reapers that can fire weapons.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. House and Senate armed services committees have reached a new accord on the fiscal 2016 defense authorization bill that trims nearly $5 billion from the bill’s original total.
Defense and Space

Pentagon officials plan to keep up destroyer patrols to prove the U.S. Navy’s freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is seeking astronaut applicants, the agency’s first hires since 2013.
Defense and Space

Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) 6, the future USNS Brunswick, recently completed acceptance trials, the U.S. Navy says.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Lockheed Martin expects a full program of 134 F-16 upgrades will fit into a cash-strapped South Korean modernization project that has been delayed again.
Defense and Space

While the U.S. Marine Corps seems to be generally on the right track with the acquisition of its Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV), there is some risk, the GAO says.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Johnson Space Center will provide safety training and other support services to the Houston Airport System under a Space Act Agreement signed Nov. 4.
Defense and Space

AAR AIRLIFT GROUP has $14m, one-year contract renewal from...

Tuesday morning the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) discusses...