Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Australia has declared the Leonardo-Finmeccanica C-27J Spartan initially operational, 18 months after accepting the first unit into service.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale of two Saab Sea Giraffe 3D air search radars for the Philippine navy.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
German missile manufacturer Diehl Defense has completed a series of trials with Norway to prove that its IRIS-T air-to-air missile can also engage ground targets.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
India and Russia plan to extend the range of their jointly developed BrahMos supersonic cruise missile beyond its current 300-km (190-mi.) limit.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
Facing a last-minute book idea emergency? If you are ready to scramble, here are some stocking filler gift ideas for aviation geeks.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Armed German Eurofighters are supporting the expanded Baltic Air Policing Program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Sierra Nevada Corp. and Turkish Aerospace Industries are making a surprise pitch of their Williams International FJ44-4M-powered Freedom Trainer for the T-X program.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
President-elect Donald Trump's Dec. 12 Twitter attack on F-35 costs is not the first time his tweets have had an impact on defense stocks, following on the heels of his Boeing Air Force One comments the previous week.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
New findings by NASA’s long-running Dawn mission suggest that ice lies just a meter or so below the cratered surface of the large main belt asteroid Ceres.
Defense and Space

An Orbital ATK Pegasus air-launched rocket orbited eight small weather-monitoring satellites Dec. 15.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA leads the rankings among the largest U.S. federal agencies as the best place to work in 2016, the fifth year in a row it has earned the top distinction.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The design of Amazon’s delivery drone has evolved since CEO Jeff Bezos revealed the company’s Prime Air concept in December 2013.
Defense and Space

June 2, 2016, will forever be remembered as an unlucky day for the U.S. military’s premier flying aerobatic demonstration teams, the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. State Department is reviewing the potential sale of precision munitions to Saudi Arabia, in light of concerns about thousands of civilian deaths due to Saudi airstrikes in Yemen.
Defense and Space

The Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy have intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) target using Raytheon’s Standard Missile-6 Dual 1 for the first time.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Former Indian air force chief faces charges related to the AW101 helicopter scandal; the Philippines builds a fleet of FA-50 fighters; Lithuania beefs up surface-to-air missile force; and the U.S. State Department reviews munition sales to Saudi Arabia.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Germany gives Sea Lion room to succeed as it mulls other helicopter acquisitions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Israel is showing the aviation industry a new use for noise-reducing and efficiency-boosting performance-based navigation procedures: avoiding the rocket’s red glare.
Budget, Policy & Operations

The Boeing E-3 Sentry’s 1970s-vintage cockpit gets a facelift to enable free access to international airspace and reduce the aircrew required on the flight deck.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
It is looking like, under Trump, U.S. workers increasingly will have to compete with both foreign labor and robots at home.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
In this week’s Washington Outlook: Sessions urges more peaceful relations with Russia, American Airlines faces tarmac delay fines and Warren joins the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Thierry Dubois
Europe’s Galileo global positioning, navigation and timing satellite constellation is to begin providing services to users on Dec. 15, 17 years after the European Commission approved the project.
Defense and Space

U.S. Marine Forces Japan has suspended Bell-Boeing MV-22 flying operations after one of its assigned tiltrotors, worth about $80 million, crash landed in shallow waters off the coast of Okinawa due to a midair refueling mishap.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Juno mission spacecraft soared close to Jupiter for a third time Dec. 11 with all but one of eight science instruments and cameras gathering data on features hidden below the planet’s colorful cloud tops.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The Italian air force has taken delivery of the first two of four maritime patrol derivatives of the ATR-72-600 regional airliner.
Defense and Space