Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Arie Egozi
Israeli experts have doubts about the capabilities of Iran’s newly revealed fighter aircraft, which appears to be a another copy of the 1950s-era Northrop F-5.
Defense and Space

By Arie Egozi
Israel’s Rafael has developed a new passive system dubbed Sky Spotter to detect “primitive” aerial weapons like drones, kites and balloons.
Defense and Space

BOEING has $217m U.S. Defense Logistics Agency contract for F/A-18 aircraft spare parts.

On Tuesday morning the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will discuss U.S.-Russia relations with witnesses including Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Christopher Ford.

General Dynamics Mission Systems, Scottsdale, Arizona, has been awarded a $23,178,805, firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for air traffic control radio replacement.

By Tony Osborne
A British company believes a powered paraglider could be a low-cost, practical solution to a long-running logistical headache.

By Lee Hudson
Senators are concerned the military services will abuse other transaction authority, a mechanism Congress approved to bypass the traditional acquisition system.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
United Technologies has bought a predictive analytics boutique as part of the Tier 1 supplier’s corporate push into becoming a software-industrial giant.
Connected Aerospace

By Arie Egozi
The growing demand for VTOL unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) is driving Israeli companies both to develop new aircraft and convert existing types for the role.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Mid-way to Mars, key instruments on NASA's Insight lander have checked out, including the delicate French seismometer that forced a two-year launch delay.
Defense and Space

By Arie Egozi
The Israeli Air Force will have to change its operational patterns while flying over Syria after Turkey receives Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
U.S. Special Operations Command is moving to expand the availability of UAS to small teams for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Defense and Space

By Arie Egozi
A campaign is said to be underway to get the F-35’s European engine maintenance center moved from Turkey to Israel.
Defense and Space

By Arie Egozi
TEL AVIV—After years of being known as a small military that can execute well-planned airstrikes, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) is finding new ways to stay relevant in an era of cyberwarfare, pumping money and attention into linking its information networks and making sense of data from disparate assets.

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy’s aircrew systems program office intends to host an industry day in late September for a real-time physiological monitoring and alerting system.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Britain’s new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has left port in readiness for flight trials with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
Stratolaunch Systems has unveiled details of the vehicles it is developing for deployment from the very large carrier aircraft in the final stages of preflight testing.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Electric aircraft developer Bye Aerospace has flown the tech demonstrator for its solar-powered StratoAirNet unmanned and Solesa manned surveillance aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Russia’s Tupolev has rolled out an upgraded version of its Tu-22M ‘Backfire’ supersonic variable geometry strike aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
A U.S. Air Force safety investigation board will kick off this week to probe a Northrop Grumman T-38 Talon crash on Aug. 17.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
The propulsion system of China’s planned space station has passed a major test, said Casc, the main supplier to the country’s space program.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
BAE Systems has received a $70.4 million U.S. Navy contract for ALE-70(V) towed decoys for the Lockheed Martin F-35.
Defense and Space

By Arie Egozi
The Israeli radar developed for South Korea’s KF-X fighter is based to a great extent on the operational experience of the Israeli Air Force.
Defense and Space

India’s state-run defense agency has tested the Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon (SAAW) precision-guided bomb and Helina anti-tank guided missile.
Defense and Space

BAE SYSTEMS has $70.4m U.S. Navy contract for T-1687/ALE-70(V) countermeasures in support of PMA272 Air Expendable Countermeasures Program.