Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) plans to deploy the Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone helicopter operationally this summer.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The French Army expects the Airbus H160M helicopter to take on the missions currently performed by the Aerospatiale Gazelle when the H160M enters service.
Defense and Space

U.S. rocket companies have until April 6 to bid on the next batch of U.S. Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) space launch missions.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
Flight testing of the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System in the F-35 will begin in September after the decision to speed up implementation.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Three small U.S. aerospace companies are forging ties to foster a commercial global optical communications network.
Defense and Space

Ahead of the Pentagon’s fiscal 2019 budget release, six senators have thrown their support behind a re-engining of the Boeing B-52H.
Defense and Space

One of the U.S. Air Force’s few female F-16 pilots says women still face frustrating barriers to flying fighters.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Russia EW work bears fruit, Germany sets up heavy-lift helo competition, SSL wins USAF space study work, Canada buys naval self-defense system support package.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
With both a new aircraft and factory, South Africa’s Paramount Group is breaking new ground with its Ahrlac/Mwari light surveillance/attack aircraft. Photo: Paramount Group
Defense and Space

The U.S. Air Force has suspended indefinitely all solo flights in the T-6A Texan II training aircraft due to Unexplained Physiological Events.
Defense and Space

The MDA and Raytheon Missile Systems are refusing to confirm or deny reports that the latest Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 2A intercept test has failed.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Textron investors registered their disappointment with the company’s 2017 performance Jan. 31, trimming share prices by 2.5%.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Auditors have finally confirmed independent estimates of a £21 billion deficit facing the UK defense ministry’s 10-year, £180 billion equipment plan.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Boeing remains in “active” and “productive” discussions with Embraer and Brazil's government over a potential alignment, Boeing’s chief executive said Jan. 31.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX has been granted a five-year operators license from the FAA to launch communications satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
The European Space Agency has selected Airbus as prime contractor to develop the next iteration of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service.
Defense and Space

The company this week released the first images of its T-X cockpit, revealing a 21st century knobless and switchless touchscreen large-area display.
Defense and Space

The Defense Department’s new director of operational test and evaluation believes the F-35's new modernization plan is "not executable" within its planned timeline.
Defense and Space

The upcoming test of U.S./Japan Standard Missile-3 Block 2A will round out the development phase ahead of operational deployment later this year.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
The head of Airbus Helicopters Inc. has accused Leonardo of holding its UH-72 Lakota production line “hostage” with a new lawsuit.
Aircraft & Propulsion

The first sign of a Russian invasion of the Baltic states would be widespread disruption of the electromagnetic spectrum, according to a new report.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Leadership of Casis, which manages the U.S. National Laboratory assets of the ISS, is defending the nonprofit’s potential to nurture a growing LEO economy.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
An MQ-1B Predator crew’s failure to follow a checklist procedure for a lost link caused the crash of the UAV in 2016, the U.S. Air Force said.
Defense and Space

North Korea’s infrastructure and mechanisms for launching missiles are getting more and more sophisticated, a U.S. Air Force general says.
Defense and Space

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Airports have upped pressure on European authorities to adopt safety and traffic management rules to ensure the safe use of drones in and around airports.
Defense and Space