Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Britain’s BAE Systems and Turkish Aerospace Industries have signed a long-awaited agreement in which the UK company will assist TAI in the development of an indigenous fighter.

India has successfully tested the indigenous cryogenic engine for the upper stage of its heaviest rocket, the GSLV Mk. 3, inching closer to boosting its capability to launch heavier satellites into orbit.

India’s space agency readjusted the orbit of its landmark Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) to avoid the spacecraft experiencing a long-duration eclipse of the Sun that would have drained its solar batteries.

ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES has one-year lease extension from German air force to continue operating company’s Heron UAV in Afghanistan until February 2018.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk is fast becoming an innovation adviser to the Trump White House.

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It is the most sizable KC-46 order to date, bringing the total number of production aircraft on contract to 34.

The U.S. Air Force’s once-crowded $16 billion T-X trainer competition is beginning to look more and more like a price shootout between Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

While Lockheed Martin has proved it can successfully deliver aircraft from the production line, the company has yet to show it will have a reliable system in place to support the aircraft on “day two," Norwegian military officials say.

Russian jet maker MiG Corp. has started flight tests of MiG-35, the latest iteration of its famous MiG-29 Fulcrum light fighter.

The new U.S. defense secretary has ordered a review of whether an advanced Super Hornet can provide a "competitive, cost-effective, fighter aircraft alternative" to the F-35.

Harris will sell its government IT services business for $690 million in cash to an affiliate of Veritas Capital.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has dropped a plan to build a civil version of its C-2 military airlifter.

The first V-model Black Hawk took to the air on Jan. 19, following the installation of the Northrop Grumman-designed cockpit by Huntsville, Alabama-based Yulista Aviation.

Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury says the company still has faith in its H225/EC225 heavy helicopter and is determined to restore confidence in the aircraft for the oil and gas community.

Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury has said that 2016 was as difficult a year for the rotary-wing industry as 2008 at the height of the global financial crisis. And it is unlikely to improve this year.

U.S. MARINE CORPS and FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES opened first Japan-based, depot-level MV-22 Osprey repair facility at Camp Kisarazu air field.

Bell Helicopter’s revenues fell $148 million in the final quarter of 2016 compared to the same period in 2015 as deliveries dipped.

The Trump administration’s drive toward a 350-ship U.S. Navy bodes well for Raytheon’s space and airborne systems business.

Development of the Ariane 6 rocket is said to be progressing on schedule for a first flight in 2020.

California-based Kratos Defense will show off its autonomous combat UAV during a military exercise later this year.

Malaysia has sent its first Airbus A400M Atlas airlifter back to Seville, Spain, for an upgrade at the manufacturer’s expense.

India has rolled out the first indigenously upgraded Hawk Mk132 trainer aircraft, Hawk-i, which will help provide improved situational awareness and training capability.

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved potential $418m Foreign Military Sale of Air Tractor aircraft with weapons and related support to Kenya.

Family, friends, co-workers and admirers by the dozens gathered at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church on Jan. 24 to pay tribute to NASA astronaut and Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan.