Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
Malaysia is considering buying excess aircraft from Saudi Arabia, though the exact types are still to be determined.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
India has test-fired an anti-ship missile from its first homegrown submarine, taking a significant step toward strengthening its undersea naval forces.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Under the €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) deal approved by the German regulators on Feb. 28, KKR has purchased 74.9% of Airbus’ electronics and border security business, which formally began operating under the brand name Hensoldt on the same day.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
War crimes in Syria; Australia to buy new Jetwave communications system for transport aircraft; France chooses Leonardo radar for aircraft bound for North Africa; and Raytheon wins massive early-warning radar contract.
Defense and Space

Can the U.S. Air Force’s air refueling fleet keep up with the warfighter?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Despite having two aircraft carriers until 1997, the French navy will now have none during an extended renovation and testing period of its only one.
Defense and Space

The U.S. Air Force’s last MQ-1 Predator training squadron at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, is shifting to the MQ-9 Reaper as the service bids farewell to the revolutionary UAV it has operated since 1996.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
With an more muscular annual budget, NASA could regain some of the urgency that marked the nation’s Apollo era, according to an Aerospace Industries Association assessment released just before President Donald Trump’s first address to Congress.
Defense and Space

Sponsored by PwC
After decades of being the big players in a global pond, defense contractors must reinvent themselves as local businesses around the world.
Defense and Space

Raytheon demonstrated the threat geolocation capability of its all-digital radar warning receiver—the ALR-69A—during recent flight testing on a large-body aircraft for the U.S. Air Force.
Defense and Space

Lockheed Martin has unveiled a surprise play for the U.S. Air Force’s UH-1N Huey Replacement program, offering the secretive Sikorsky HH-60U.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Britain’s QinetiQ has ordered four Airbus H125 single-engine light helicopters for the UK Empire Test Pilots’ School (ETPS).
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
A British Royal Air Force pilot who sent an Airbus A330 Voyager tanker aircraft into a dive when his camera jammed the controls forward has been cleared by a court-martial of lying to investigators.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters has begun ground tests of two active main rotor blade technologies, with the aim of flying both before this summer.
Defense and Space

President Donald Trump has appealed to both Democrats and Republicans in Congress to start rebuilding the military after what has been perceived as a recent period of stagnation and decline.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has selected Safran’s RTM322 turboshaft to power the company’s Clean Sky 2 high-speed rotorcraft technology demonstrator.
Defense and Space

The U.S. Navy has signed a contract with Boeing for seven more EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft and five single-seat F/A-18E Super Hornets, which will keep “Rhino” production humming as President Donald Trump, Canada and Kuwait flirt with potential orders.
Defense and Space

The next air-launched cruise missile the U.S. Navy buys under the Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare program should be competitively selected and must be capable of destroying maritime and land targets, the service’s head of precision strike weapons says.
Defense and Space

NASA has inked a $373.5 million deal with Boeing that includes options for three more seats on Russia’s Soyuz vehicle for missions to the International Space Station.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Defense and Space has brought in a new program manager for its troubled A400M airlifter program.
Defense and Space

By Molly McMillin
Marco Tulio Pellegrini, president and CEO of Embraer Executive Jets, has been named CEO of OGMA-Industria Aeronautica de Portugal.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Satellite communications giant Intelsat will acquire LEO-based Internet services startup OneWeb and the new company will be financially backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo’s PicoSAR active electronically scanned array synthetic aperture radar has been chosen to equip the French army’s new Patroller UAV as well as Schiebel Camcopters destined for a North African country.
Defense and Space

By Kevin Michaels
An import tax could imperil large U.S. aerospace surpluses with China and Mexico.
Air Transport

Facing a new information age of warfare, the U.S. air arm is launching an effort to overhaul its command and control network.
Defense and Space