Lockheed could convert the U.K. Royal Air Force’s existing fleet of C-130J airlifters into SC-130Js, reducing procurement costs and technical risks, company officials told Aviation Week on the eve of the RNAS Yeovilton Air Day.
/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/07/asd_07_09_2015_dossier1.pdf Definition: The P-8A Poseidon is a U.S. maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) based on the 737 airliner. It is produced by Boeing.
Four NASA astronauts, all veterans with experience aboard the International Space Station, space shuttle or Russian Soyuz spacecraft, have been named to train to fly aboard the first U.S. commercial crew missions, tentatively planned for 2016-17.
Service development programs in the Pentagon are – on average – taking about 40% longer than the planned five years expected to mature into the production stage, largely due to problems with software, Air Force procurement chief William LaPlante says.
Under a contract signed July 9 in Oxford at the opening of ESA’s new Harwell satellite facility, Eutelsat Quantum will be led by Airbus Defense and Space U.K. and will be based on Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.’s new small geostationary satellite platform.
Investigations into the failure of HF7, one of the most ambitious flights yet attempted in the joint Australian-U.S. Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (Hifire) program, have pinpointed a thermal problem with a transmitter as the most likely cause.
Future network-based warfare is likely to follow a historical pattern where competitions first accelerate and then undergo abrupt qualitative changes, according to a new study from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
The U.S., China and India could find common ground in creating better cybersecurity, says Shivshankar Menon, a Brookings Institution analyst of the region, but there is little evidence of a triangle relationship for now.
BEIJING – The U.S. will withhold sensor-integration technology from the Korea Aerospace Industries’ KF-X program, confirming expectations that South Korea will have to contract with advanced European or Israeli suppliers to equip the fighter.
Details of the critical technology at the core of an innovative hybrid hypersonic propulsion system for air and space systems have been unveiled for the first time by its British-based developer, Reaction Engines.
The global space economy climbed to $330 billion in 2014, rising 9% over the previous 12 months and nearly doubling over the past decade, according to the latest findings compiled by the nonprofit Space Foundation.
Pilots from Bulgaria, the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy have been evaluating Textron Airland’s Scorpion light attack and reconnaissance aircraft following the type’s appearance at the Paris air show.
The maritime version of China’s Y-9 transport is technologically comparable with the Lockheed Martin P-3C, says a Chinese government official who also describes the type’s anti-ship role.
India’s expanding nuclear force is not matched by a consistent, effective doctrine and posture, risking instability, according to analysts working with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
There is growing interest in military and analytical circles for increased civilian air patrols in the Western Pacific to help curb Chinese maritime expansion in the region.
