Defense and Space

CAE is looking to replicate the success of its Canadian C-130J training program in Trenton, Ontario, as it sets up a training center for the C295W search-and-rescue aircraft in Comox.
Defense and Space

Following the fielding of the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton, the U.S. Navy is about to begin development of the MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based tanker.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
As airstrikes in Syria and Iraq begin to wind down, they are ramping up in Afghanistan and relying on precision munitions to reduce concerns about mounting civilian casualties.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
MIT’s Beaver Works collaboration with Lincoln Laboratory is tackling an air-launched mini-drone that can keep up with the fighters that launch it.
Aerospace

By Mark Carreau
New findings from NASA’s 12-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggest sliding sand and dust rather than seasonal flows of briny water are responsible for the 2011 discovery of recurring slope linae on Mars.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Japan’s defense ministry is leaving open the possibility of deferring a decision on how to replace the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) F-2.
Defense and Space

The U.S. Air Force’s $7 billion decision whether to replace the Northrop Grumman E-8C J-Stars with another radar-carrying aircraft or take another path comes down to survivability, and how long it might take to field something better.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
The U.S. Air Force’s 47th Flying Training Wing suspended flying operations through the Thanksgiving holiday weekend at Laughlin AFB, Texas, following the fatal crash of a T-38 Talon training jet near the base on Nov. 20.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NanoRacks LLC logged the first deployments from the International Space Station of 6U CubeSats in the more mission-capable 2U-by-3U form factor early Nov. 21.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
The latest concept design of Japan’s proposed indigenous fighter may have moved a little away from the bias toward long range and endurance over flight performance of the previous preliminary design.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. State Department has approved Poland’s request to purchase a so-called “tailored” version of Raytheon’s Patriot air missile defense system for $10.5 billion.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Facebook is working with Airbus to advance spectrum and aviation policy that will enable high-altitude pseudo-satellites—stratospheric unmanned aircraft—providing broadband wireless connectivity.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
About $30-40 billion of lead program opportunities should be available for nontraditional defense bidders over the next five years.
Defense and Space

The service’s wide-area maritime surveillance UAV, the MQ-4C, is about to undergo operational testing, as a forward operating base stands up on Guam. Photo: Northrop Grumman
Aviation Week & Space Technology

The U.S. Air Force has decided that it needs a new air superiority fighter, but it is going to cost American taxpayers a pretty penny.
Defense and Space

The stealth F-22 Raptor conducted its first strikes in Afghanistan the night of Nov. 19.
Defense and Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s new airborne early warning and control aircraft, the A-100 Premier, flew for the first time on Nov. 18 from Taganrog in southern Russia.
Defense and Space

Avionics and weapon systems upgrades have transformed the U.S. Air Force’s Vietnam-era B-52 bomber into a valuable intelligence asset.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
FAA approves safe spherical drone; JAXA tests cut airframe noise; Workhorse sets SureFly flight date; A³’s Vahana readied for flight; smaller VTOL UAV from UMSSkeldar
Aerospace

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) has resumed production of its largest combat aircraft—the Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber.
Defense and Space

As Sikorsky begins assembly of the first two operational CH-53Ks for the U.S. Marine Corps, GE Aviation has been awarded a $143 million contract for production of 22 more engines for the “King Stallion” heavy lifter.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), the developer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, has begun an investigation into why the aircraft broke free from its mooring mast and deflated.
Defense and Space

F-22 pilots assigned to Al Dhafra air base are seeing unexpected, potentially threatening movement from Russian fighters flying over Iraq and Syria with growing regularity.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The Ball Aerospace-built JPSS-1 is the first of four similarly instrumented spacecraft developed to extend severe weather forecasts out as far as seven days.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
KUALA LUMPUR—Indonesia has pledged more funds to help state aircraft manufacturer Indonesian Aerospace, especially to make its 19-seat N219 light twin turboprop aircraft an export success.
Defense and Space