Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

After years of bitter competitions, Embraer has finally established a U.S. foothold for production of defense systems stateside with the rollout of

By Tony Osborne
OSLO — Norwegian ammunition firm Nammo is hoping to achieve an operational capability for a new 25mm round for use in all three variants of the F-35

The aircraft carrier CVN 77 USS George H.W. Bush has become something of an electronic warfare (EW) testbed lately and the ship’s success thus far

RAYTHEON may not sign expected Qatari PATRIOT order before end of current fiscal quarter, RBC CAPITAL MARKETS says, but analysts are confident deal

U.S., South Korea Finish Talks On Joint Strike Fighter Purchase South Korea and the U.S. government have completed negotiations on Korea’s order for

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/09/asd_09_25_2014_jas1.pdf JAS 39E/F Gripen Specs (See p. 6-8 for full Gripen Program Dossier) Name

By Jay Menon
NEW DELHI — India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft successfully entered Mars’ orbit Sept. 24, making India the first nation in Asia to reach

Ships assigned to the aircraft carrier CVN 73 USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group completed a complex, live-fire, anti-submarine warfare (ASW)

By Graham Warwick
Bell-Boeing and Rolls-Royce have flight tested a modification, already being installed in AE1107C engines powering the V-22 Osprey, that increases the

The U.S. Navy’s ramped-up destroyer shipbuilding program continued this month with the authentication of the keel of DDG 114 Ralph Johnson at the

By Graham Warwick
Textron has completed its first live-fire flight test of the Fury small, precision-guided glide weapon from a Shadow 200 tactical unmanned aircraft

PARIS—Aireon LLC has named FAA veteran Vincent Capezzuto to the position of chief technology officer and vice president of engineering, the McClean

Last month’s earthquake in California’s Napa Valley provided an opportunity for NASA to demonstrate one highly sophisticated but often overlooked

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/09/asd_09_25_2014_jas7.pdf Specifications: JAS 39 Gripen Designation: JAS-39A/B JAS-39C/D JAS-39E/F

CAE booked C$115m in new contracts to provide MQ-1 Predator/MQ-9 Reaper aircrew training to USAF, to update CP-140 simulator for the Royal Canadian

Among the concepts for replacing the Russian-built RD-180 rocket engine to be presented to the U.S. Air Force this week will be a solid-fuel concept

Northrop Grumman has received a $19.3 million contract for Phase 2 of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)-led program to demonstrate a

The U.S. Air Force’s most expensive fighter, the twin-engine F-22, has finally attacked a target during a combat deployment. A pilot flying the

NAS PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland — The U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft program could be cut – not due to draconian budget changes but because

Joint Strike Fighter program leaders will decide within days whether to defer the U.S. Navy F-35C variant’s first sea trials until 2015, the program

By Tony Osborne
Five Middle Eastern air forces took part in the U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State (IS) insurgents in Syria on Sept. 23. The gathering of Arab

By Tony Osborne
LONDON — AgustaWestland is taking the U.S. Army to court in a bid to block the purchase of more Airbus Helicopters UH-72 Lakota Light Utility

HOUSTON — International Space Station astronauts Alexander Gerst and Reid Wiseman successfully grappled the latest SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule as

Amphibious transport dock LPD 23 USS Anchorage completed the third Underway Recovery Test (URT-3) for NASA’s Orion capsule earlier this month

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/09/asd_09_24_2014_nasa7.pdf