With firm orders for 12 of its new SKYe SH09 rotorcraft in hand and letters of interest for about 100 more, Marenco Swiss Helicopters recently began flying its third prototype.
Heico on Aug. 18 said it will buy AeroAntenna Technology for up to $336.5 million, making up the aerospace electronics and parts provider’s largest single acquisition.
The U.S. Defense Department has test-launched the first tactical version of the AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile from a Boeing B-1B “Bone” supersonic bomber.
This new laser weapon represents the next step in the U.S. Army’s advancement of high-energy lasers for destroying enemy unmanned aerial vehicles and protecting troops from incoming rockets, artillery and mortar fire.
Taiwan’s first step toward another indigenous fighter should be a technology acquisition effort, says the defense ministry’s technology agency, which would lead the early stages of the program.
NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay System Satellite-M separated from its United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle as scheduled following an Aug. 18 liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) plans to double the production rate of the MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft through early 2018 as assembly transitions to the more capable Extended Range (ER) version.
In this week’s Washington Outlook, General Atomics is trying to “educate” lawmakers to keep U.S. UAS technology at the forefront; the CBO scores the cost of ATC reform, and GAO sizes up the potential sale of old ICBM motors.
The U.S. Air Force is eyeing more powerful, fuel-efficient engines for extended range and increased stealth as key requirements for its next air superiority fighter.
The last of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) is poised for liftoff on Aug. 18, as the agency looks ahead to transitioning responsibility for its space communications network to commercial systems in the mid 2020s.
Only specific portions of Boeing’s current Ground-Based Midcourse Defense contract will be extended beyond the expiration date in December 2018, while MDA takes over lead systems integrator responsibilities.
The U.S. Navy is expected to soon award a contract to Raytheon to integrate a seeker into Tomahawk missiles to enable the weapon to strike a moving target at sea.
India is planning to launch its eighth Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft in the last week of August, an Indian Space Research Organization official says.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is in the early stages of negotiating the potential sale of as many as 90 Predator C Avenger remotely piloted aircraft to an unidentified international customer.
Newly revealed satellite images of potential aircraft debris have boosted Australian researchers’ confidence about where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed more than three years ago.
A new name for Sukhoi’s T-50 fighter; Thailand seeks weapons for new frigate; Bahrain will join the ranks of C-130J-flying nations and Lockheed wins a major special operations logistics contract.
Raytheon wants to defend Hawaii using “full-caliber” Standard Missile-3 Block 2A exoatmospheric interceptors, paired with its scalable Air and Missile Defense Radar.
