New photos of the still classified U.S. Air Force’s Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle have emerged from Vandenberg AFB, California.
During a visit to Airbus facilities in Marseille on March 3, French Defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced that the H160 would form the basis of France’s Hélicoptère Interarmées Léger, replacing six different types.
A robotic lunar lander capable of delivering as much as 10,000 lb. of cargo to a permanent outpost on the rim of the Moon’s polar Shackleton Crater could make its first flight by July 2020, with a little help from NASA.
With a small but significant maneuver earlier this week, NASA’s Maven Mars orbiter avoided a potential collision with Phobos, the larger of the Red Planet’s two moons.
The crash of a vintage Hawker Hunter jet at a British air show in 2015 that killed 11 people was caused by pilot error, UK air accident investigators have concluded.
Bell has made an unsolicited proposal to Australia to supply AH-1Z and UH-1Y helicopters in a program that would use funding earmarked for sustaining and buying smaller rotorcraft.
Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightnings could cost about $80 million each if the stealth fighter is ordered in multi-year lots, the manufacturer says, conditionally backing a call for lower prices from the Pentagon’s program chief.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a classified National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite lifted off from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg AFB.
It cannot be called a nuclear arms race when one side has not even left the starting block. That is the message of Lt. Gen. Jack Weinstein, the U.S. Air Force’s top nuclear forces officer, saying that the Pentagon’s next-generation submarine, bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile are still in their infancy.
Boeing and Leonardo have formally announced their partnership for the U.S. Air Force UH-1N Huey Replacement Program, offering the latter’s AW139-based “MH-139” produced in Philadelphia.
The Royal Australian Air Force looks likely to go ahead this year with fielding an interim Northrop Grumman-developed system that should be a big step toward a goal of high information integration across Australia’s armed services.
Under the €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) deal approved by the German regulators on Feb. 28, KKR has purchased 74.9% of Airbus’ electronics and border security business, which formally began operating under the brand name Hensoldt on the same day.
Australia is close to choosing between BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin to upgrade the Jindalee over-the-horizon radar system by implementing technology developed by the Defense Department.
The Joint Strike Fighter project should be able to beat its 2019 price target for Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning aircraft, says program chief Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan.
