Defense and Space

Pratt & Whitney Canada is working on a new 2,000 shp-class helicopter engine that could be ready for market by year’s end.

Sikorsky has delivered a S-70i International Black Hawk to Turkish defense electronics firm Aselsan in the first phase of the Turkish Utility Helicopter Program.

A first-stage engine issue discovered during a prelaunch inspection of United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Medium+ rocket has set back the launch of the ninth and penultimate U.S. Air Force Wideband Global Satcom spacecraft.

Israel Aerospace Industries is shaping up as the main competitor to General Atomics in Australia’s armed UAV program.

The Philippines’ aviation capabilities are getting a boost with the commissioning of two attack aircraft and two surveillance aircraft this month.

Honeywell says helicopter deliveries dropped 20% in 2016 compared to 2015, reflecting the challenging market faced by the industry.

Chinese defense spending will grow more slowly than the economy for a second straight year in 2017, official figures suggest.

Militants in Iraq and Syria are adapting consumer drones and micro-UAVs for surveillance missions and deadly strikes.

Leonardo tests Gurney flap; Robinson eyes diesel helo; UK extends unmanned helo trials; ArcticShark flies in Oregon.

Strapped for cash to buy Boeing’s new KC-46 tanker in sufficient numbers, the U.S. Air Force is looking instead to outfit its 60-year-old KC-135 Stratotanker.

New photos of the still classified U.S. Air Force’s Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle have emerged from Vandenberg AFB, California.

Lockheed Martin has renamed its new precision-guided Dual Mode Plus bomb “Paragon,” and is eyeing early integration with the F-35A

During a visit to Airbus facilities in Marseille on March 3, French Defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced that the H160 would form the basis of France’s Hélicoptère Interarmées Léger, replacing six different types.

Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightnings could cost about $80 million each if the stealth fighter is ordered in multi-year lots, the manufacturer says.

With a small but significant maneuver earlier this week, NASA’s Maven Mars orbiter avoided a potential collision with Phobos, the larger of the Red Planet’s two moons.

The crash of a vintage Hawker Hunter jet at a British air show in 2015 that killed 11 people was caused by pilot error, UK air accident investigators have concluded.

Buying new aircraft would be cheaper than the plan to keep the bizjet-based T-1A flying.

The 2017 Philip J. Kass Laureate for Heroism goes to the rescue crew of Kenn Borek Air for their South Pole flight to rescue sick workers.

Lockheed Martin's Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile was deemed the Laureate for more than quadrupling the striking distance of U.S. combat aircraft against ships.

Army Cadet Lt. Michael Cremins, Coast Guard 2/c Cadet David Creswell, Navy Midshipman 1st Class Ryan Speir and Air Force Cadet Colonel Young Yuyang Wu honored.

In this week’s Washington Outlook, a jaundiced view of this year’s budget debate, NASA plans to buy more Russian rocket rides and a surge in attempts to carry weapons on to passenger aircraft.

Northrop Grumman has submitted its Gulfstream G550-based proposal for the U.S. Air Force’s J-Stars recap.

It cannot be called a nuclear arms race when one side has not even left the starting block. That is the message of Lt. Gen. Jack Weinstein, the U.S. Air Force’s top nuclear forces officer, saying that the Pentagon’s next-generation submarine, bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile are still in their infancy.

Boeing and Leonardo have formally announced their partnership for the U.S. Air Force UH-1N Huey Replacement Program, offering the latter’s AW139-based “MH-139” produced in Philadelphia.

Indonesia has become the launch customer of the UMS Skeldar vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) V-200 UAV, with the delivery of a single system.