Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Jay Menon
NEW DELHI—India’s third Light Combat Helicopter trial aircraft made its first flight Nov. 12. The twin-seater Technology Demonstrator-3 took off at 3

U.S. Marines tested an “augmented reality system” from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) earlier this month that could make it possible to transform

By Mark Carreau
HOUSTON—The instrumented Orion capsule assigned to Exploration Flight Test-1 was hoisted atop its Delta 4 Heavy launch vehicle pre-positioned at Space

By Mark Carreau
HOUSTON—Flight controllers from three International Space Station (ISS) partner nations coordinated a firing of thrusters on the European Space Agency

As the U.S. Navy gets ready to invest in future large shipbuilding efforts, the nation’s leading shipbuilder, Huntington Ingalls Industries, is eyeing

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FORECAST INTERNATIONAL is projecting production of light military rotorcraft to decline annually from 166 in 2015 to 55 in 2028. CPI AERO has $86m

Caroline Bruneau
PARIS—Four years late and several billion euros over budget, Germany’s first A400M tactical airlifter is expected to be delivered to the Luftwaffe in

Caroline Bruneau
The general manager of China’s Avicopter, Cai Yi, thinks “the next three to five years are crucial for the development of the Chinese helicopter

By Tony Osborne
LONDON—The French army has deployed its new NH90 Caiman utility helicopters to Africa after achieving initial operating capability with the type. Two

By Tony Osborne
LONDON—Bell Helicopter has performed the first flight of its new Model 505 Jet Ranger X light turbine helicopter. The aircraft, which is being

By Jay Menon
NEW DELHI—India and Israel have made headway in developing advanced weapon systems for their militaries after successfully testing the Long Range

Caroline Bruneau
A 60-year lease on a historic San Francisco Bay property that NASA says will free agency funds for other uses and bring in more than $1 billion in

Caroline Bruneau
Chengdu’s J-20 stealth fighter represents the pinnacle of China’s aerospace engineering, but its existence and development have posed mysteries since

By Mark Carreau
HOUSTON—The National Space Biomedical Research Institute and Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Space Medicine have initiated a $100,000 matching

Caroline Bruneau
As the U.S. Navy continues to hunt for a new small surface combatant, the service is moving ahead with the building and deployment of its Littoral

Caroline Bruneau
The U.S. Navy earlier this month launched and successfully completed the float-off of its third Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), the Lewis B. Puller

Caroline Bruneau
The Crane division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) is bolstering cybersecurity for Marine Intelligence at the Corps Systems Command in

Caroline Bruneau
The U.S. Defense Department needs to do a better job of overseeing acquisition quality management, a recent Pentagon Inspector General (IG) report

UTC AEROSPACE SYSTEMS has $22m USAF contract to supply upgraded wheels/carbon brakes for 475 F-15s starting mid-2016. AAR was selected by AMMROC

By Bradley Perrett
ZHUHAI, China—Avic has revealed a model of a turboprop military airlifter approximately in the class of the Lockheed Martin C-130. The model of the

The U.S. House and Senate reconvene in Washington for their lame-duck session this week, and the armed services committees of both chambers are

By Tony Osborne
LONDON—The ongoing U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State fighters has given the U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) experience in refueling additional

By Tony Osborne
LONDON—The U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) has carried out its first live drops of a Raytheon Paveway IV precision-guided bomb from a Eurofighter Typhoon

By Mark Carreau
HOUSTON—NASA’s International Space Station program plans to greatly compress certification schedules for science and exploration technology hardware