Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Manned-unmanned teaming and combat cloud technologies are key disruptors in Europe’s Future Combat Air System.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Defense & Space CEO Dirk Hoke talks with Aviation Week about COVID impact, Europe’s big defense initiatives and other challenges.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Italian and Swedish industry will begin joining discussions on Tempest later this year.
A&D Week 2020

By Tony Osborne
A country-by-country look at who will benefit from the alphabet soup of European defense and aerospace programs in progress to bolster industry.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Objectives include surveying the topography and geology of Mars, its physical fields, atmosphere, ionosphere and climate.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The UK is preparing to advance to the next stage of its Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft technology demonstrator project.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Committee backs increased F-35 buy; fixing drag on F-18 readiness; Austria to retire trainers; and Brazilian Gripen production starts.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. approval, as expected, clears the path for the Japan Ministry of Defense to become the largest customer for the F-35 outside the U.S. and expand the customer base for the short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing F-35B.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
More than a month after the U.S. Army secretary green lighted the use of air assets during a June 1 protest of the death of George Floyd in Washington, lawmakers will finally have access to the Pentagon’s investigation report.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The improved version of the Klimov RD-93, which is likely a candidate to power the JF-17 Block 3, has been shipped to a Moscow-based test center.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
With the interplanetary highway to Mars poised to open next week, spacecraft owned by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and NASA have been loaded onto their respective launch vehicles at Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center and Cape Canaveral.
Space

By Tony Osborne
A United Nations report into the use of armed drones has suggested that the U.S.-sanctioned killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Iraq in January violated international laws.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Deployments by Italian Air Force F-35s to Iceland have provided a template for how the country will use the fifth-generation fighter in the future.
Budget, Policy & Operations

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Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Britain is planning to restart arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a year after judges found that government ministers had been unlawfully signing off on export licenses.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Damaging attacks by SUAS on Saudi oil facilities last September prompted the Pentagon to quickly seek to rationalize a counter-small unmanned aircraft systems (C-SUAS) architecture,.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Daniel Urchick
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) demand for Western-designed maritime helicopters will increase 9.9% during
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Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense and Space

An improved version of the Russian-built engine for the Sino-Pakistan FC-1/JF-17 fighter has been passed to a Moscow high pressure chamber to start
Defense and Space

Daniel S. Goldin
U.S. Military bureaucracy has neglected serious risks to the system and its users for decades.
A&D Week 2020

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is looking at suborbital flights.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Here is a look at missions that have landed and attempted to land on Mars, as well as upcoming projects by the U.S., China and Europe.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has a strategy for winning support from a Republican-led Senate for NASA’s full $25.2 billion fiscal 2021 budget request, after Democrat-led House authorizers voted against a requested 12% topline increase.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA and Boeing have completed a joint review of software and verification problems that cut short the uncrewed flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, resulting in 80 recommendations to be implemented prior to a repeat test targeted for late this year.
Space