Aviation Week & Space Technology

By 2023, Turkey’s centenary, President Tayyip Edogan wants the nation’s aerospace industry to fly its indigenous TF-X fighter. But the new fighter is just the one example, as Turkey is developing a trainer/light attack aircraft, UAVs, missiles, helicopters and a gallium-nitride-based AESA radar.

Aegis Ashore batteries would add an outer layer to Japan’s ballistic-missile defense. Tomahawks on destroyers could hit Pyongyang’s weapons before launch.

A range of 5,500 km would reach the western edge of Alaska and would cover all of East Asia, including the far west of China, with Australia just out of reach

Safran Aircraft Engines CEO Olivier Andries stresses the LP turbine’s design is not at stake and describes the situation as a “temporary logistic disturbance.”

Tailsitter and tilting ducted fan VTOL concepts join the chase for the Marine Corps’ emerging requirement for a large, ship-based multimission unmanned system.

More OEM vertical integration is coming, but so are new opportunities for suppliers, including non-traditional ones.

The stakes are high for General Electric’s GE9X testing program for Boeing’s future 777X twinjet.

India’s Light Combat Aircraft demonstrates missile integration, Israel’s Air Force replaces Sea Scan patrol aircraft with Heron UAVs, a longer-range loitering UAV, and U.S. approves more Patriot missiles for UAE.

Israel’s Airobotics breaks new ground with approval to operate automated drones remotely for missions such as site surveys and security patrols.

Leanne Caret, president of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, discusses the revival of fighter programs, the state of play on the KC-46A tanker, the importance of T-X and more.

Don’t count on a big defense spending increase this year; report finds SLS NASA’s deadline rush cost millions, and the fight over air traffic control continues.

Finding usable water on the Moon would boost space exploration, but extracting it is likely to be a challenge.

China’s big and influential airlines can only see the arrival of famously efficient AirAsia as a threat that must be contained.

New financial incentives and links to mainland China will be key to establishing Hong Kong as an aircraft leasing hub.

From the big rockets for human spaceflight to the swarms of tiny cubesats revolutionizing data and bandwidth, the space economy is making a name for itself.

Although rare, the split-elevator scenario in the ATR 42 and 72 can overstress the aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer due to a newly uncovered control system phenomenon.

More than 30 years old, NASA’s FUN3D computational fluid dynamics code is powerful, versatile—and doesn’t run fast enough, even on a supercomputer.

The six-metric-ton T625 is the result of Turkish program launched in 2013 to locally produce a rotorcraft that could replace hundreds of aging UH-1 Hueys.

Marine Corps is touting the stealthy JSF in training exercises in Japan, South Korea, and Alaska.

Turkey’s fighter will be twin-engine, but the choice of a powerplant has not yet been made.

Unmanned aircraft in the news: BNSF flies true BVLOS; Satcom for small UAS; Swift flies over water; Snipe nano-UAS delivered; Indago quadcopter upgraded; Redkite wide-area imagery from small UAS.

Some Wall Street analysts suggest Vought’s insolvency warning might be a ploy to bolster Triumph in negotiations with OEM customers.

Boeing says it remains confident that delivery of the first 737-8 to Lion Air Group carrier Malindo Air will take place by month’s end.

Officials won't offer date North Korea could marry nuclear warhead with ICBM; administration may expand laptop ban; Trump takes aim at carrier launch system.

Major aerospace manufacturers aim to provide commercial drone operating and data processing services to large customers beyond the military UAS market.