The outgoing U.S. Air Force chief of staff has called for a “flying artillery” aircraft to replace the Fairchild Republic A-10 Warthog, as his successor distances himself from any arrangements to retire the aging close air support (CAS) platform “in the near-term.”
The first temporary detachment of U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack aircraft arrived at Clark Air Base earlier this month for training with Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) FA-50 aircraft pilots, the Navy says.
Airbus Defense and Space has conducted wind tunnel testing on an extended length refueling hose which the company hopes can solve the A400M’s helicopter refueling woes.
India has eased limits on foreign direct investment (FDI) in defense joint ventures, with the aim of enticing international defense contractors to manufacture equipment in the country.
Surveillance service provider MAG Aerospace has flight tested Logos Technologies’ Redkite wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system on a Cessna 206 Caravan as a step toward offering the ability to monitor a city-sized area as a turnkey service.
Northrop Grumman plans to build a second Tern ship-based vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft under a $17.8 million contract extension from DARPA.
U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harriers flying from amphibious ship LHD 4 USS Boxer in the Arabian Gulf joined strike aircraft operating from aircraft carrier CVN 75 USS Harry S. Truman in the Mediterranean Sea earlier this month, the first naval aviation combat strike missions of Operation Inherent Resolve launched from Navy warships in two different operational theaters, the Navy says.
The U.S. Navy installed a new AN/SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) in its Advanced Radar Development Evaluation Laboratory (Ardel) at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) off Hawaii earlier this month.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (NDAA) passed by the Senate includes language meant “to cut through acquisition red tape and provide more funding flexibility to develop electronic warfare technology,” according to the sponsoring lawmaker.
Gen. David Goldfein, who is set to become the 21st Air Force chief of staff, told lawmakers June 16 that he expects Milestone A decisions from the Pentagon in the coming months for the new ICBM and cruise missile.
Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are bracing for 35 min. of terror as the $1.1 billion Juno mission spacecraft enters polar orbit over Jupiter on July 4.
A bill to bolster support for NASA’s aeronautics research has been introduced in Congress even as lawmakers prove reluctant to support a boost in funding sought in fiscal 2017 to launch an ambitious 10-year program of X-plane flight demonstrators.
NASA is ethically obligated to provide its astronauts with lifetime health care, current and former U.S. spaceflight record holders and medical experts told the House Science space subcommittee June 15.
Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab says it is ready to partner with India’s state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) to upgrade India’s indigenously-developed Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA).
As the U.S. Marine Corps continues to develop its own new large UAV, dubbed “MUX,” the service sees the Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout as a good short-term gap-filler, says Col. John Barranco, the service’s unmanned systems cell lead.
