Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Developments in defense technology to watch in 2017 include drone countermeasures, jamming improvements, and directed-energy weapons.

By Graham Warwick
Amazon’s latest delivery drone; Turbulence downed Facebook’s UAV; JAXA’s new turbofan testbed; Intelsat touts smaller satcom for UAVs; Drones check Texas roads and railways.
Aerospace

The Missiles Defense Agency validated the shipborne Standard Missile-6 against a medium-range ballistic missile in a significant test off the coast of Hawaii.
Defense and Space

Sierra Nevada Corp. and Turkish Aerospace Industries are making a surprise pitch of their Williams International FJ44-4M-powered Freedom Trainer for the T-X program.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Armed German Eurofighters are supporting the expanded Baltic Air Policing Program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
New Qantas services will boost Australia’s share of longest 787 flights
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
President-elect Donald Trump's Dec. 12 Twitter attack on F-35 costs is not the first time his tweets have had an impact on defense stocks, following on the heels of his Boeing Air Force One comments the previous week.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio, Jefferson Morris
What the space-launch upstart thinks went wrong in September, what the delay means for its customers and how the company has handled losses in the past. Plus, Orbital ATK’s Pegasus launch and a John Glenn remembrance.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Former Indian air force chief faces charges related to the AW101 helicopter scandal; the Philippines builds a fleet of FA-50 fighters; Lithuania beefs up surface-to-air missile force; and the U.S. State Department reviews munition sales to Saudi Arabia.
Defense and Space

Israel is showing the aviation industry a new use for noise-reducing and efficiency-boosting performance-based navigation procedures: avoiding the rocket’s red glare.
Budget, Policy & Operations

The Boeing E-3 Sentry’s 1970s-vintage cockpit gets a facelift to enable free access to international airspace and reduce the aircrew required on the flight deck.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
It is looking like, under Trump, U.S. workers increasingly will have to compete with both foreign labor and robots at home.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Soyuz maybe nudged out of many launches due to the increased payload capability of the Vega C.

By Tony Osborne
Germany gives Sea Lion room to succeed as it mulls other helicopter acquisitions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
In this week’s Washington Outlook: Sessions urges more peaceful relations with Russia, American Airlines faces tarmac delay fines and Warren joins the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Thierry Dubois
Although the size of the aerostructure suppliers’ pie to be shared is increasing, competition for a slice is growing.
Air Transport

The Sept. 1 launch-pad explosion, among other problems, is putting a crimp, for now, in the big plans for Elon Musk’s "new space" company.
Commercial Space

Sens. Cochran and Wicker lend Republican clout to the company’s low-risk entry for the U.S. Air Force T-X trainer competition under a Trump presidency.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Supply-chain companies face a growth dilemma many have not encountered in recent memory, if at all.
Air Transport

Jan Woerner’s Moon village concept is looking better to NASA, and the Trump administration could move things along faster.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost is developing a modular cabin for widebody freighter aircraft that will provide new types of passenger experience that can generate additional revenue for airlines while making it quicker and easier to change cabins, even between flights.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
London’s busy and complex airspace is a key target for redesign.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
A new thermodynamic cycle could produce a lightweight, fuel-efficient heavy-fuel engine for unmanned aircraft.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
Aerojet Rocketdyne rotating detonation-engine study takes a big step toward boosting gas turbine efficiency through pressure-gain combustion.
Aerospace

Airbus’s C295W triumphs in Canada over Leonardo C-27J and Embraer KC-390 in the fixed-wing SAR competition.
Defense and Space