Defense and Space

The company wants to resurrect a long-abandoned plan to install external fuel tanks under the wings of the conventional takeoff-and-landing variant.

SB-S will enable an aircraft to off-board operational information drawn from Avionica’s wireless data collection and transmission devices, which provide access to flight information wherever the aircraft is operating around the world.

The Indonesian Air Force has introduced two new transport squadrons to the country’s most eastern provinces.

The Philippines Air Force (PAF) has commissioned a simulator to train its pilots to fly Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) FA-50 light fighters.

Raytheon completed a nearly yearlong series of operational test drops of the all-weather StormBreaker glide bomb from the Boeing F-15E in May, the company said.

Turkish Aerospace is looking to accelerate the development of its indigenous fighter aircraft, TF-X, in an attempt to fly as early as 2025.

The U.S. Air Force intends to purchase 20 to 30 Kratos XQ-58A Valkyries for an extended experimentation campaign, and may launch a program of record in fiscal 2021.

France, Germany and Spain have taken the next tentative steps toward the development of a pan-European Future Combat Air System (FCAS).

Disagreements between France and Germany over exports of jointly manufactured defense equipment could halt plans to jointly develop a new combat aircraft before they even begin, a senior Airbus official has warned.

Six years since Finmeccanica (now Leonardo) first touted its M-345 High Efficiency Trainer proposal in Paris, the company has finally brought the first prototype to the Paris Air Show.

As Osiris-Rex travels closer towards Bennu, the spacecraft’s suite of scientific instruments will gather imagery to generate global maps, contributing to an ongoing evaluation of where best to touch down briefly to gather a sample of soil and rock.

Germany’s Rheinland Air Service (RAS) has debuted its maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare conversion of the ATR-72 turboprop regional airliner for the first time here at the Paris Air Show, being held June 17-23.

Lockheed Martin’s top F-35 executive doubled down on a commitment to reduce the cost to operate the stealth aircraft each hour by 43% within six years.

The French Air Force carried out their first training sorties on its new fleet of Pilatus PC-21 advanced turboprop trainers June 4.

Lockheed Martin has revamped a seven-year-old concept for a maritime patrol variant of the C-130 to refocus it as a mission kit that can be retrofitted on existing or new-build aircraft.

Leonardo has unveiled the latest, third, iteration of its Falco unmanned aircraft system—the Falco Xplorer.

Boeing has revealed that the U.S. Navy MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based unmanned refueling tanker company-funded prototype will achieve first flight later this summer.

Raytheon has demoed the AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder in the surface-to-air missile role, launching the interceptor successfully during a test on May 9 in Norway.

Boeing and Embraer will announce the name of its joint venture “very soon,” a company executive says.

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Ten years after its operational debut, scoring thousands of target interceptions in combat, and over a hundred units sold to customers worldwide, ELTA is ready to take its Multi-Mission Radar to the next level.

Raytheon has unveiled on the eve of the Paris Air Show a new vision for a future scramjet-powered hypersonic missile.

Having renewed its commercial aviation portfolio with new engines good for another 15 to 20 years, GE Aviation is bringing resources to bear on its military business.

British aerospace suppliers have found themselves frozen out of industry tenders, as the uncertainty about Britain’s departure from the EU continues.

Clocking in a year ahead and well below the previously stated goal of an $80m F-35A by LRIP Lot 14 should not have surprised anyone, a Lockheed Martin executive says.