Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Eyeing potential opportunities for F-35 sales in Spain, Portugal and elsewhere, Lockheed Martin aims to eventually produce 4,000 of the fifth-generation fighters, a company official said Nov. 21.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Two spacewalking astronauts teamed for the second of four planned spacewalks outside the ISS on Nov. 22 to advance an upgrade of the thermal control system on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
A Pakistani company has entered the high-altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) business with a platform it believes can sell at one-tenth the cost of systems like Airbus’ Zephyr.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. State Department has approved a long-awaited Foreign Military Sale of Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to Morocco.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Defense against maneuvering hypersonic missiles will probably require interception while weapons are still climbing, former U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command chief Gen. Herbert Carlisle said.
Program Management

By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
Taurus is promoting the KEPD 350 cruise missile to Japan for the Boeing F-15, despite a government statement in 2018 that it would acquire the Lockheed Martin AGM-158 Jassm for the fighter.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
MBDA sees a possibility of selling Meteor long-range air-to-air missiles to Japan despite the defense ministry’s current acquisition of Raytheon AIM-120C-7 Amraams.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
New Zealand has received State Department approvals to purchase five Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules following the type’s selection as its future transport aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force has unveiled three “vanguard programs” designed to partially fulfill the service’s science and technology strategy.
Program Management

By Guy Norris, Steve Trimble, Graham Warwick
Aviation Week editors Guy Norris, Steve Trimble, and Graham Warwick discuss the details of the existence of the stealthy RQ-180.
Combat Aircraft

By Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
Surprise last-minute contract vaults UAE into manned military aircraft manufacturing club.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
The United Arab Emirates plans to add more airborne early warning and aerial refueling capacity.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
U.S.-based adversary air companies are beginning to return Dassault Mirage F1s to flight in preparation for their role as commercial-operated aggressor aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) plans to deliver by June 2020 a batch of eight aircraft from the T-50 military jet family that Thailand ordered two years ago.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
Thailand is developing an armed variant of a locally made UAV as part of an effort to develop its defense industry.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
C4ISR and defense training provider Cubic saw its publicly traded shares lose around 20% in price Nov. 21, the day after the company forecast fiscal 2020 expectations that were softer than Wall Street expected.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
NATO’s first Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) platform, a derivative of the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system, has arrived in Europe, a major milestone for the delayed program.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
A company with hopes of winning the U.S. Air Force’s light attack competition, Air Tractor, has filed two bid protests with the Government Accountability Office.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
A prototype upper-stage for SpaceX’s Mars-class Starship launch vehicle was destroyed during a maximum pressurization test Nov. 20 at the company’s Boca Chica Beach, Texas, complex.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
A NASA strategy to partner with the U.S. commercial sector to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) could enrich a growing global space economy if the agency and its international partners can stay the course to the Moon and Mars, its top strategist told SpaceCom 2019 on Nov 20.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
London-based Spacebit is opening a Lansing, Michigan, office to find and develop investment opportunities in the U.S. that meet its lunar commerce ecosystem business strategy.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Inspector General predicts that certification of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Commercial Crew Program (CCP) spacecraft will occur no sooner than summer 2020.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
The Dutch Caribbean Air Navigation Service Provider (DC-ANSP), responsible for managing air traffic from the Caribbean island of Curacao, has started using space-based surveillance data from Aireon to track aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
U.S. DOD Secretary Mark Esper is urging the FCC head to reject Ligado Networks’ license modification request to allow sat frequencies near the GPS band to be used for terrestrial 5G networks.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) has awarded Leonardo a contract to supply a RAT 31DL air defense radar system, the company says.
Defense and Space