The U.S. Marine Corps is set to get its second F-35B squadron this week as the service prepares the fifth-generation fighter jet for its first overseas deployment next year.
With a decision expected soon from an international tribunal on a South China Sea territorial dispute between China and the Philippines, regional security analysts warn the likely ruling against Chinese interests could prompt the Asian giant to try to take even greater control of the skies in the area.
The importance of combat aircraft within European air arms has increased in light of Russia’s aggressive stance in Ukraine and elsewhere. Over the next decade, the majority of Europe’s air arms will be reequipped or be beginning the process.
Tanker problems are holding up the long-awaited transatlantic deployment of British and U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs in time for their debut at two major U.K. air shows.
The hot-fire test of a chilled-down solid-fuel rocket motor for NASA’s planned heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) on June 28 moved the big human-rated rocket a step closer to its first flight in 2018.
Honeywell International made its expected CEO transition plan official late June 28, announcing newly installed President and Chief Operating Officer Darius Adamczyk will succeed current chief executive Dave Cote on March 31, 2017.
The Russian armed forces will receive the first brigade of the new Buk-M3 medium-range surface-to-air missile system this year, says Yan Novikov, CEO of Almaz Antey, the system’s manufacturer.
Dscovr, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s inaugural space weather satellite, is prepared to become an operational solar sentry on July 27.
The U.S. Navy has no choice but to operate in a world where more countries are getting access to anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs), says Adm. John Richardson, chief of naval operations.
The June 2015 launch failure of SpaceX’s seventh NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station has jeopardized agency ISS program plans to equip the six-person orbiting research laboratory with two docking adaptors for future U.S. commercial crew capsules prior to the first test flight now planned for May 2017, NASA's IG says.
Trustees of The Aerospace Corporation picked Steve Isakowitz as president and CEO of the non-profit corporation which operates a federally funded research and development center in El Segundo, California, that advises the Air Force, NASA and other government agencies on aerospace technology.
The first article in a series, this is a primer on stealth technology, review of the radar cross-sections of fighter aircraft and analysis of how the differences affect detection ranges against state-of-the-art threat radars.
Tom Gentile’s appointment as CEO of Spirit AeroSystems may be surprising, but it should be the last blast of proverbial fireworks in the company’s turnaround.
U.S. Marine Corps and U.K. F-35Bs will land vertically on a pad of AM-2 aluminum matting at Royal Air Force Fairford during the Royal International Air Tattoo.
MDA's directed energy roadmap shows continued investment in an assortment of high-power laser technologies that will be married with an unmanned missile shooter in the fiscal 2021 timeframe.
The U.S. Marine Corps is looking to improve readiness levels for both its AV-8B Harrier jets and its CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters amid an increase in mishaps for the fleets.
CEO and President Eileen Drake is continuing the trimming and reorganization of Aerojet Rocketdyne, with the company announcing June 27 it will consolidate its six business units into two, Space and Defense.
A Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion helicopter successfully lifted the equivalent of two up-armored Humvees during recent testing in West Palm Beach, Florida.
NASA’s Curiosity rover, nearing the fourth anniversary of its drama-filled landing on Mars, has detected an unexpected mineral in the rock it is sampling as it methodically climbs Mount Sharp.
