Defense Aircraft & Propulsion

Oct 14, 2020
The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force has begun work on how to exploit its new RC-2 sigint aircraft, converted from an airlifter prototype.
Oct 14, 2020
Mixed congressional reaction on the Pentagon’s radical proposal to redesign the U.S. Navy for a future war with China.
Oct 12, 2020
HAPSMobile flies high; Islander automated; multifuel UAV engines; NASA’s X-59 slips; Russia targets quiet supersonics; fresh fruit by autonomous aircraft.
Oct 09, 2020
France to replace Rafales; SDA awards tracking layer contracts; Russian airlifter delayed; and Boeing WGS clears PDR.
Oct 07, 2020
Azerbaijan is making extensive use of UAVs and Israeli-made loitering munitions in renewed fighting against Armenia.
Feb 06, 2023
The AIR5349 Phase 6 Project aims to “ensure commonality” between Australia's EA-18G electronic warfare aircraft and the U.S. Navy’s Growler fleet.
Feb 04, 2023
The time-limit restriction now applies to the input quill assemblies inside the engine nacelles for the entire V-22 fleet.
Feb 04, 2023
Bell’s tandem-cockpit, single-main-rotor Invictus is competing for the FARA contest against Sikorsky’s Raider X.
Feb 03, 2023
Leonardo UK has been exploring the potential capabilities of air launched effects that could bolster the company’s helicopter products.
Feb 02, 2023
The balloon has flown over sensitive locations including nuclear missile fields but President Biden has been advised not to shoot it down.
Feb 02, 2023
Spain is set to acquire additional Eurofighters and an unnamed fifth-generation fighter–likely the F-35–as part of a new program.
Feb 02, 2023
A 2021 review cut the UK's planned Boeing E-7 Wedgetail fleet from five aircraft to three.
Feb 02, 2023
Video shows a rollout and spooling up of the Hurjet advanced jet trainer's General Electric F404 engine at Turkish Aerospace's facility in Ankara.