Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Bangladesh has already purchased two former Royal Air Force (RAF) C-130Js, both of which are currently undergoing refurbishment with Marshall Aerospace and Defense in Cambridge, UK.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
An appeal by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade concluded that ministers had made no assessments on whether the Saudi-led coalition operating in Yemen had committed violations of international humanitarian law, Court of Appeals judges said June 20.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The company looks to resume operations, having entered extraordinary receivership at the end of last year.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Fred Kennedy's departure will not alter the Pentagon’s plans to establish the SDA, Pentagon spokeswoman Heather Babb said.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
The situation presents a risk to civil aviation and the potential for “miscalculation or misidentification,” as evidenced by the surface-to-air missile strike of the Navy aircraft while it was operating over the Gulf of Oman, the agency said.
Defense and Space

By Angus Batey
Thales' TrUE AI is not so much a product as a new way of thinking and talking about AI-based security, the company says.
Defense and Space

By John Morris
With commercial now set after a decade of renewal, hundreds of engineers and research and development resources are being tasked with creating future generations of military powerplants.
Defense and Space

By Lee Ann Shay
Vertical integration is adding to Boeing’s portfolio “in a way that is creating more value for customers, given the way that [they're] doing it to change the acquisition side of the cost equation and the life-cycle side," the head of Boeing Global Services says.
Defense and Space

By Sean Broderick
Continued demand for legacy airliners and AAR’s integrated portfolio of capabilities are creating aftermarket opportunities.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
U.S. antitrust officials blessed the merger of L3 Technologies and Harris on June 20.
Defense and Space

Customers now "demand smaller, smarter and cost-effective weapons that can hit ad-hoc moving targets," an Elbit official says.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Spirit exhibited the Advanced Structures Technology and Revolutionary Architectures panel, a full-scale demonstration fuselage panel using their new proprietary architecture, at the Paris Air Show.
Defense and Space

By Angus Batey
Already an avionics supplier, Collins now has been contracted to provide temperature and pressure controls for both pilot and equipment on board, and is to use an out-of-autoclave process to manufacture flight-control surfaces for the aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin is developing a new air-dominance missile for the U.S. Air Force and Navy with significantly greater range than the AIM-120 Amraam as a counter to China’s new PL-15 weapon, a top U.S. Air Force official says.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
“This is the strongest rebuke of [Saudi Arabia] and its leaders since I joined the Senate,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), first elected in 1992.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Defense Department’s top sustainment official says a $25,000 cost per flight hour target for the Lockheed Martin F-35A remains achievable by 2025.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
As the unit flyaway cost of the Lockheed Martin F-35 dramatically decreases, Boeing argues that the F-15EX will remain a competitive option for the USAF.
Defense and Space

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris, Tony Osborne
What did we see and what was missing at the Paris Air Show? Listen in as our editors discuss the highs and lows from the biannual aerospace industry gathering at Le Bourget.
Defense and Space

By Angus Batey
Pilots will have to be trained to operate the ageing Tornado platform for at least another decade. But investment in training has not kept pace with the many changes made to the platform.
Defense and Space

By Angus Batey
A company official says first flight for the new type is imminent.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
Iran shot down a U.S. Navy Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator aircraft while the UAS was flying in international airspace, the DOD has confirmed.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
The Royal Thai Air Force has become the first international customer to update its C-130H transport fleet with the Rolls-Royce T56 Series 3.5 engine upgrade.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
The Pentagon’s rationale for low-yield nuke development; U.S. Air Force to move ahead with GBSD; U.S. invites Germany and Israel to fly King Stallion; and Israeli firms to merge.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
A California startup developing an electric kinetic launch system has signed its first launch contract, with the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Boeing Defense, Space and Security Chief Executive Leanne Caret said the “time was right” to move the company’s space launch HQ.
Defense and Space