Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Russia Post plans a drone delivery trial in 2018 using a heavy-lift unmanned aircraft developed by Kazan-based ARDN Technologies.
Defense and Space

Arie Egozi
Israel Aerospace Industries is changing its strategy in the U.S. market to better deal with changing conditions.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The aerospace industry hopes to benefit from a four-year, $331.3 million government initiative to make the UK a leader in battery technology.
Defense and Space

If the U.S. Air Force proceeds with the J-Stars program, it will be with Northrop Grumman’s radar.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

The U.S. Defense Department could conduct “kinetic” intercepts of North Korean or Iranian missiles with the F-35.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Some analysts suspect U.S. defense budgets may be set up for a squeeze play by the early 2020s, while business aviation could feel an effect right away--good or bad.
Defense and Space

The next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket that ULA is developing to succeed its Atlas and Delta platforms will be outfitted with avionics by L3 Technologies.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
More-electric systems, engine-airframe integration and flight-deck apps are among new research projects to be backed by almost $73 million in UK government funding.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Research into a new class of materials that promise to “revolutionize aircraft construction” is being funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Airbus has taken a stake in uAvionix, a startup developing miniaturized ADS-B transceivers for detect-and-avoid in UAVs.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Marine Corps plans to test an unmanned, disposable glider that can be launched from a transport aircraft to deliver supplies to ground forces.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Slovenia’s Pipistrel Aircraft has created a Chinese company to produce the Alpha Electro and Panthera electric-powered light aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
The possible foreign military sale of ordnance, equipment and services worth $415 million for a Singaporean training detachment of Boeing F-15s in Idaho has been OK'd.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL—On Tuesday, after a hiatus of 37 years, the quartet of thrusters at the rear of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired to test if they could keep the probe oriented with 10-millisecond pulses.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
The European Space Agency will invest in a new Vega small satellite launcher and a miniature reusable robotic spaceplane.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Bahrain has formally agreed to purchase 16 new-build Block 70 F-16s.
Defense and Space

The U.S. Air Force is moving forward with a plan to give the F-35A a moving target capability in 2018.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has revealed it has ended serial production of the H120 single-engine light helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The private sector is expected to play a big role in sustaining the latest version of the future human deep space exploration strategy for moving humans beyond low Earth orbit.
Defense and Space

By Jens Flottau
Paul Eremenko may have been frustrated with internal resistance to change at Airbus. He was hired in 2015 to run A3, the Silicon Valley-based innovation hub.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
In this week’s Washington Outlook, ex-deputy defense secretary cautions on shorting computing research; costs up for Wfirst Telescope; terrorism a threat.
Defense and Space

Aviation Week’s Pentagon Editor, Lara Seligman, got a behind-the-scenes look at the U.S. air war in Afghanistan from the back of a KC-135 Stratotanker.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Britain’s F-35 land base is scheduled to be ready for arrival of the first aircraft next summer.
Aircraft & Propulsion

As the man bridging the gap between military and commercial infrastructure, the commander of U.S. Transportation Command is leading the charge on cyber resiliency.
Defense and Space

Need to go fishing for pirates or smugglers? London-based Horizon Technologies has a signals intelligence pod for that.
Defense and Space