A Japanese requirement to replace Bell AH-1S attack helos shaping up as an opportunity for the country to enter an international joint development program.
An Indian Air Force MiG-27 fighter has crashed in the western state of Rajasthan, the latest in a series of similar accidents among the service’s aging fleets.
Japan's proposed military budget seeks money for land-based batteries, interceptors, an upgrade for an Aegis destroyer and air-to-surface weapons for knocking out threats before launch.
The pressurized Airbus Perlan 2 sailplane reached an altitude of over 76,000 ft. on Sept. 2 over the Andes Mountains, attaining what is believed to be the highest level-flight ever by a manned, winged, subsonic aircraft.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $250.4m U.S. Navy contract for F-35 Lightning II low-rate initial production Lot 11 production nonrecurring special tooling and special test equipment.
The first Boeing 702-based ViaSat-3 satellite structure has arrived at Viasat’s facility in Tempe, Arizona, where payload integration and testing can now begin, Viasat announced Aug.
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The air pressure within the habitable volume of the International Space Station held steady Aug. 31, a day after the six-person crew hustled to locate and internally seal a small leak in the orbital compartment of the Soyuz MS-09 crew transport capsule.
The mobile launcher that will serve as the construction base and launch platform for NASA’s heavy-lift SLS rocket and Orion deep-space capsule was transported to Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B on Aug. 31 for fit checks.
The UK defense ministry is to test machine learning to support the processing and exploitation of surveillance data from its unmanned aerial systems (UAV).
Israel Aerospace Industries is performing initial tests to evaluate the effect of design changes made to enhance the speed of its unmanned aircraft systems.
An investigation found no evidence that an aircraft structure “or any system” malfunctioned prior to the fatal crash of an experimental Magnus eFusion hybrid-electric airplane.
While the Israeli Air Force mulls delaying the purchase of additional F-35s in favor of advanced F-15s, deliveries of 50 F-35s already under contract continue.
The Aerospace Corp. won a $100,000 prize from the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities Office to use artificial intelligence to analyze radio frequency signals.
