Defense and Space

U.S. Air Force investigates UAV crashes; Jordan looking to offload its older F-16 fighters; South Korea, Chile interested in buying missiles through U.S. Foreign Military Sales program.

Interview with BAE Systems CEO Ian King: Expansion in Turkey and India are on the target list.

Resourcesat 2A will be launched by the powerful XL version of India’s indigenous Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle later this summer.

The Italian air force has begun acceptance testing on a new fleet of maritime patrollers based on the ATR-72 regional airliner.

Avic has begun deliveries of its Y-20 Kunpeng heavy airlifter to the Chinese air force, nine years after the program was launched.

The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) is aiming to become the first navy to have a fully unmanned mine-countermeasure force, Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen says.

The Hercules birds could be flying through hurricanes or fighting fires one day and dropping paratroopers into battle the next. Aviation Week joins a WC-130J Hurricane Hunter on a mock assignment over the Atlantic Coast.

What will be the broader ramifications of Brexit on the aerospace industry, and has the market has appropriately priced this in?

The company is focusing attention on three key programs: Bombardier’s CSeries airliner, Embraer’s KC-390 airlifter and the Sikorsky S-76 helicopter.

Seven Turkish military personnel have been killed after their Sikorsky S-70 Black Hawk crashed in Northern Turkey.

The Royal Jordanian Air Force wants to offload another 15 early model Lockheed Martin F-16s as it moves more toward counterinsurgency platforms like special-mission Air Tractors and AC-295 light gunship.

The Reaper was flying in the skies above Syria when the operator lost control, according to a July 5 statement from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C.

With signs emerging earlier this year that all was not going as well as it once did, Raytheon and Thales have divvied up and downsized their defense joint ventures (JVs).

NASA’s Juno probe concluded its five-year trip to Jupiter with a successful orbital insertion around the gas giant planet on July 4.

Mars and the outer Solar System figure prominently in NASA’s decision to extend nine planetary missions for another two years.

Despite its announcement that it will miss a major contractual deadline, Boeing is slowly moving ahead with developmental testing on its KC-46 tanker and is on track to begin production in August, according to the U.S. Air Force.

Ahead of midyear reports to Wall Street by public companies, and on the heels of Britain’s “Brexit” vote to leave the EU, analysts and consultants covering the aerospace and defense (A&D) sectors see a general slowdown in business activity.

Antonov has begun upgrading the engines of its An-124 heavylifters in a bid to reduce noise levels and emissions.

The Singapore armed forces has set up a high-readiness unit, the Army Deployment Force (ADF), to bolster its ability to respond to terrorism and other security challenges.

If the U.S. opts to disaggregate its future Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites, the decision could allow allies to create a unified satcom system by 2025.

Aviation Week joined the crew of a KC-10 Extender, departing McGuire AFB, New Jersey, as it escorted three Lockheed Martin F-35As across the Atlantic to RAF Fairford in the U.K.

The program will create a 45,000-lb.-thrust class engine for sixth-generation Air Force and U.S. Navy fighters as well as, potentially, a re-engining option for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Fifth-generation fighter jets are massive data hubs, designed with advanced sensors that vacuum in critical threat information and disseminate it all over the world.

At least two Southeast Asian air forces have grounded their Airbus H225 Super Puma helicopters in response to a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) order that does not apply to military operators.

The convoluted story of U.S. Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) acquisition of unmanned aircraft surveillance services has a new chapter.