Airbus has carried out its first aerial refueling contacts using an automated system, a test which could pave the way for automatic refueling of receiver aircraft.
Turkey’s Aselsan has begun development of an indigenous active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar likely to become the primary sensor of the country’s future fighter.
Turkey’s Tubitak Sage research institute has unveiled a family of air-to-air missiles which could go onto equip the country’s future indigenous fighter, the TF-X.
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AIRBUS has French defense procurement agency contract for preparatory studies and definition work for future ground segment of the Syracuse IV satellite-based military telecommunications system, construction of which is scheduled to begin in 2018. BOEING added sixth KC-46 tanker aircraft to the test program, the second low-rate initial production aircraft, which completed first flight April 29.
Republicans are ramping up pressure on President Trump to keep his commitment to lift spending caps pertaining to defense that are back in place in 2018. Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) drafted a letter pointing out Trump’s campaign commitment and White House commitment to lift the limitations. “Now is the time for Congress to take immediate action to repeal defense sequestration,” Turner writes in a letter signed by more than half of Republicans in the House.
Technologies, capabilities and knowledge increasingly appear to be coming together in ways that experts believe could address the question of whether life emerged elsewhere than on Earth.
After several delays, India is finally expected to conduct the first flight test of the BrahMos-A, the air-launched version of the Indo-Russian supersonic missile, in June.
Embattled aerospace supplier Triumph Group has struck a deal with creditors that could lead to insolvency for its Vought Aircraft unit, whose roots date to the dawn of powered aviation.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Air Force announced May 6 that it will send the F-35A to the Paris Air Show, less than two weeks after a service spokeswoman and the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) told Aviation Week and other news outlets that the fifth-generation aircraft would skip the event.
BOEING has $541.1m U.S. Army contract for production lot 15 CH-47F cargo renew and new build helicopters through Dec. 31, 2020. U.S. MARINE CORPS MV-22 Ospreys complete first-ever trans-Pacific flight, touching down in Australia as part of Marine Rotational Force – Darwin (MRF-D) on May 2.
To pave the way to begin launches of a 4,425-satellite constellation in 2019, SpaceX is pressing Congress to revise various policies in ways that would benefit its large low Earth orbit venture to provide broadband internet to currently underserved areas. For starters, Federal Communications Commission rules require non-geostationary orbit constellations to launch an entire constellation within six years.
India on May 5 launched the South Asia Satellite, aimed at meeting the growing telecommunications and broadcasting needs of India and six of its regional neighbors.
The U.S. Navy program to arm the Littoral Combat Ship/Future Frigate with a long-range ship-killing missile has narrowed to one near-certain entrant and two others on the ropes.
