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By Mark Carreau
Astronauts on Oct. 24 deployed the 50-kg. (110-lb.) Kestrel Eye IIM satellite on a demonstration mission from the International Space Station (ISS).
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Northrop CEO Wes Bush says the company doesn’t see the business case to compete for the Navy’s aerial tanking drone.
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By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
South Korea is likely to pass up a chance at economizing on support costs by linking requirements for maritime patrollers and airborne early warning aircraft.
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By Guy Norris
Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg concedes more work on the tanker remains, but insists the biggest problems are behind the company.
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By Bradley Perrett
The consortium of MBDA and Saab that builds the Taurus KEPD 350 bunker-busting missile thinks a proposed compact version probably could fit in the weapon bays of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings.
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By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
South Korean engineers are, at least nominally, taking the lead in developing onboard systems for the KF-X. Whether they are always in fact leading is not so certain, since many foreign companies have been hired to assist.
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By Tony Osborne
Bulgarian media reports say pilots refused to undertake training flights on Oct. 24 over concerns about safety and additional delays to the country’s plans to replace the country’s Soviet-era fighters with Western-built equipment.
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By Tony Osborne
Meetings in January will decide “on the way to handle the [fighter] engine business," TAI's CEO says.
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By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
Taurus is too big for the Korea Aerospace Industries FA-50. A proposed compact version would probably fit inside the F-35, too.
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AFwerX Vegas will be a place where companies and start-ups with technologies applicable to the service’s core military missions can engage with the Air Force outside of the traditional acquisition process.
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By Graham Warwick
A fuel-efficient airliner concept developed within NASA that shows promise as an early application of turboelectric propulsion is to undergo a comprehensive external evaluation by Aurora Flight Sciences.
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By Michael Bruno
Arconic on Oct. 23 named Charles “Chip” Blankenship as its next CEO, effective Jan. 15.
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U.S. Air Force F-35 pilots have reported tingling fingers and other symptoms that indicate hypoxia five separate times since flights resumed at Luke AFB, Arizona.
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By Graham Warwick
The aircraft was launched from the Virginia Space UAS runway at Wallops on Oct. 18 on a planned seven-day flight, but with thunderstorms looming was recovered early, landing with 64 hr. of fuel remaining.
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By Tony Osborne
Success in the Middle East has strengthened China’s resolve to enter the unmanned air systems market.
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Aside from Boeing’s MH-139, the Air Force’s Huey competition is a battle between old and new Black Hawks.
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How ready are the B-52s today to respond to a crisis, on the Korean Peninsula or elsewhere?
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Twelve F-35As from Hill AFB, Utah’s 34th Fighter Squadron are set to deploy to Kadena Air Base, Japan, in early November for a six-month rotation.
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The aircraft are being adopted by the Coast Guard from the military for maritime patrol and search-and-rescue missions through an inter-governmental transfer deal directed by Congress in the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act.
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Given the challenging global security environment, so the 38-year-old Eagle will fly on, at least for a while.
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By Tony Osborne
Prague has requested to purchase 12 UH-1Ys along with engines, sensors, spares and support for $575 million as part of its program to replace its fleet of Mil Mi-24 attack helicopters.
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An executive order signed by the president Oct. 20 gives the U.S. Air Force the power to recall up to 1,000 retired airmen, but there are no plans for an involuntary recall.
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By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
The expected order for 12 helicopters will help fill a Republic of Korea Navy requirement for 40 new shipborne rotorcraft for anti-submarine and anti-ship operations.
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By Mark Carreau
NASA’s second extension of the Dawn probe's mission will allow low-altitude observations of the Texas-sized asteroid Ceres during its close pass of the Sun next year.
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The remote sensing spacecraft will launch along with 30 foreign piggyback nanosatellites.
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