Collins Aerospace has been selected to deliver up to 3,018 ACES 5 ejection seats over the next decade to replace the escape systems in five different combat aircraft fleets, the U.S. Air Force announced on Oct 2.
Boeing has moved into forward-flight testing of its unmanned Cargo Air Vehicle (CAV) and completed more than 90 flights since beginning outdoor testing in early May.
Leonardo Helicopters has partnered with Italian special vehicle company Olmedo to further its work on developing more capable emergency medical service capabilities on its helicopters.
The parallel developments of Ariane 6’s components and launch facilities are progressing on time for a first launch in the second half of next year, according to design authority and manufacturer ArianeGroup.
Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) is to establish an aviation cluster in Jeddah as the company gears up for aerospace programs to serve the needs of the Saudi armed forces and government agencies.
The Philippines has taken delivery of two Elbit Systems Hermes 450 medium-altitude, long-endurance surveillance drones, its defense secretary confirmed.
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After devoting nearly 20 years to buying “exquisite” weapon systems and operating often in isolation from the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps will spend the next decade revamping a force structure to use lower-cost platforms and integrate tightly with the naval fleets, Commandant Gen. David Berger said Oct. 3.
French aerospace and defense provider Thales on Oct. 3 raised sales and operating performance forecast for the coming years, with the benefits of recently acquired software security company Gemalto “offsetting a more uncertain outlook in the commercial space market and no growth in transport.”
New-space investing is continuing its heady climb in 2019, with the market’s first vertically integrated holding company, Voyager Space Holdings, announced Oct. 2.
The managing director of Leonardo’s helicopter business says he would like to see a role for European industry in the programs that emerge from the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL).
A German-led research effort has identified organic compounds—ingredients of amino acids, the building blocks of life—in data obtained by the NASA-led Cassini mission as it traversed eruptive plumes rising from the massive subsurface ocean at Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
The U.S. should sell additional Javelin missiles to Ukraine so that it can better defend its sovereign territory, the head of U.S. European Command (EUCOM) says.
France is to order the Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye carrier-borne airborne early warning aircraft as part of an upgrade to the country’s naval air arm.
The Philippines is likely to arm Embraer A-29 Super Tucano light attack airplanes and Bell AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters with 70-mm (2.75-in.) rockets converted to precision weapons by the addition of BAE Systems WGU-59/B guidance units.
North Korea has test fired what appeared to be a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Oct. 2, demonstrating what an analyst estimates as a range capability of possibly more than 3,000 km (2,000 mi.).
Sixteen vehicles purporting to be road-mobile launchers for DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missiles appeared in China’s National Day parade on Oct. 1.
