Defense and Space

In the wake of Pyongyang's second successful intercontinental ballistic missile launch, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) tested Thaad against an air-launched medium-range ballistic missile target.
Defense and Space

Capt. Jeff Haney was flying over Alaska in late 2010 when an engine bleed-air malfunction on his F-22 Raptor caused the control system to shut off oxygen flow to his mask.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Marhalim Abas
The Philippines is getting more equipment for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions from the U.S.
Defense and Space

The Boeing KC-46A Pegasus has been blasted with jolts of high-amplitude electromagnetic energy typical of a high-altitude nuclear explosion.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
It may be just business, but already the CEOs of major aerospace equipment makers are sending warning shots to each other as manufacturers increasingly look to capitalize on the aftermarket.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
The U.S. aerospace industry continues to shed workers, but it is skill sets that should have leaders most worried.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
In this week's Washington Outlook: Senator advocates first building sensor layer, Senate appropriators back NextGen ATM and NASA’s Mars-bound rocket and a look at what’s ahead for spending bills.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Seventeen days after a mishap that killed 16 Marines and sailors, the U.S. Marine Corps is grounding its fleet of 12 KC-130T aircraft out of an abundance of caution.
Defense and Space

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says he supports the diplomatic and economic pressure being applied to North Korea by the White House and State Department, but “time is running out” before Kim Jong-un has an operational system capable of striking the U.S. mainland.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
The unmanned, unpowered RLV-TD is a space shuttle-like subscale reusable spaceplane that is launched atop a booster rocket.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Wes Bush, Northrop chairman, chief executive officer and president, said during the company’s second-quarter 2017 teleconference July 27 that there was a “likelihood that an increasing fraction of our business may become restricted.”
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Chris Kubasik, who will swap his COO title at L3 Technologies for CEO at the end of the year, will focus first on trying to find efficiencies in the company’s Aerospace Systems division.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Speaking in Paris as the company announced its half-yearly results, Trappier said French president Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel clearly want Europe “to have a strong Franco-German pillar,” however he said the timescales for such a program were unclear.
Defense and Space

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
The manufacturers have agreed to supply the weapons, says the office, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), presumably meaning that terms have been settled. But there is no mention of government permissions for exporting the missiles.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
The chief of the Indonesia’s Defense Facilities Board, Rear Adm. Leonardi, says the air force has stated a requirement for a high-endurance unmanned system able to detect, track and attack targets.
Defense and Space

Lockheed Martin has successfully fired its AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (Lrasm) from a new deck-mounted launcher.
Defense and Space

Babak Taghvaee
Iran’s most advanced weaponized UAV is in the midst of full production and has been deployed for domestic and international missions.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Assembly of Czech training aircraft begins; Thai military preparing for more defense imports; Lockheed wins LRASM contract, and Hughes scores wideband satcom study deal.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio, Tony Osborne
Aviation Week’s defense team discusses how Europe’s defense partnerships are evolving.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
After decades of promise is hypersonic technology finally verging on operational capability? The U.S. Air Force thinks so, and is laying out high-speed requirements underpinned by a growing budget for sustained R&D.
Defense and Space

Congressional support is building for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) proposed space-based sensor layer for persistent tracking and discrimination of missiles.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
As the U.S. Air Force prepares to solicit industry for development of an air-launched hypersonic conventional strike weapon, for the first time the service is outlining its approach to operationalizing high-speed capability for a wide range of roles.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup ARCA Space plans the first spaceflight on an aerospike rocket engine in August.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance has been awarded a contract by the French Defense Procurement Agency for both the “Maintenance in Operational Condition” and cockpit upgrade of the French Air Force’s four Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Satellite views reveal new evidence for the presence of OH- and/or H20-bearing chemistry trapped in widespread lunar volcanic deposits.
Defense and Space