Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The Eurojet In-Service Support contract aims to deliver cost savings to the Royal Air Force’s Typhoon operation.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
At $2,500 a month per satellite, LeoTrack is intended for use by all smallsat operators, from individual academic satellites to commercial constellations.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Bye and Oxis team on batteries; Wright tests hybrid propulsion; TsAGI’s next-gen regional; DLR’s cargo autogyro; AFRL flies autonomy; DARPA backs flow control.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Italy would be a “great partner” for the UK and Sweden on the future fighter project, says Leonardo’s UK chief.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
Austria’s Schiebel Group has formed a new subsidiary to market its Camcopter S-100 unmanned helicopter in the U.S. and named industry veteran Gretchen West to lead the company.
Defense and Space

Only two months after government officials warned of a potentially year-long delay, the Russian military has completed the first flight of the Sukhoi S-70 Hunter unmanned assault aircraft, Russian news agencies reported on Aug 2. The flight lasted more than 20 min. before a successful landing, state news agency TASS reported, citing an official statement circulated by the Ministry of Defense.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
A possibly design-related blockage of the cooling system in the GOES 17 weather sat is responsible for the degraded performance of the spacecraft’s primary instrument, the $100 million Advanced Baseline Image, an investigation shows.
Defense and Space

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
Hanwha is offering a road-mobile variant of the KTSSM for export, even before the South Korean army deploys the short-range ballistic missile next year.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Japan has lifted the grounding order on its Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning force that had been in place since immediately after one of the fighters crashed on April 9.
Defense and Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russian arms trade agency Rosoboronexport confirmed this week it has approved the resale of two Ilyushin Il-76MF military transports from Jordan to Egypt.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
British investigators say they will not reopen a probe into the 2015 Shoreham Airshow accident following the court acquittal of pilot Andrew Hill.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army has selected Raytheon and Northrop Grumman to compete to supply a 50 kW-class laser on Stryker combat vehicles within three years.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Since 2013, the U.S. has accused Russia of violating the treaty by developing, testing and deploying a new cruise missile with a range greater than 500 km.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
U.S. Navy investigators have begun an inquiry into the fatal crash of a Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet on July 31 during a low-level flying exercise near Death Valley, California.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio, Steve Trimble, Graham Warwick
Boeing’s exit from the Ground-based Strategic Deterrent program to replace the U.S.’s nuclear ICBMs leave the Air Force with Northrop as a lone contractor. Aviation Week editors discuss the company’s possible motivation and what it means for the future of the Pentagon’s nuclear program.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Boeing’s withdrawal from the competition to replace the Minuteman III risks altering the U.S. nuclear triad.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Avionics companies will show off future cockpit concepts for U.S. Special Operations Command rotorcraft in September, the Sofwerx rapid acquisition office announced.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
Boeing has invested $115 million into a formerly shuttered facility to support the Marines common configuration reliability and maintainability program for the MV-22 Osprey.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The Czech Aerospace firm said on Aug. 1 it plans to “omit the certification of the L-39NG in basic training configuration” and deliver the certification of the full trainer configuration, which will allow the aircraft to perform both advanced and lead-in fighter training.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
The decision to retain a full-duration static test firing of the Space Launch System core booster all but officially bumps the rocket’s debut flight into 2021.
Defense and Space

By Arie Egozi
The Philippines has selected Israeli company Elbit Systems for the supply of advanced UAVs.
Defense and Space

By Arie Egozi
Israel Aerospace Industries has backed off from a tender to supply UAVs to the Israel Defense Forces, claiming the program as structured would not leave it any profit.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The Planetary Society reports its LightSail 2 (LS 2) spacecraft propulsion demonstration has achieved mission success.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Bulgaria reverses F-16 veto; CH-53K scores funding increase; Israel pursues satellite swarm buy and Northrop to upgrade electronic attack pods.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
USAF testers have begun preparations for flight tests of a prototype autonomous combat aircraft by flying a suite of safety software in a subscale jet-powered unmanned aircraft at Edwards AFB in California.
Defense and Space