Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Motor-glider experience prompts new developments in optionally piloted surveillance aircraft.
Defense and Space

Tom Mayor
The unfolding revolution in the automotive industry is less about research than development—spotting and bringing together an array of externally sourced technologies.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
A fleet of aircraft and an air charter service are part of the Republican presidential candidates long—and very visible—association with aviation.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Sixteen of San Francisco-based Planet Labs’ latest Dove CubeSats completed a three-day deployment cycle from the International Space Station late June 1.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Lockheed Martin is standing up its final assembly and support facility for the T-50A advanced trainer in Greenville, South Carolina, as the aircraft enters flight testing in South Korea ahead of the U.S. Air Force’s T-X competition, expected to get underway late this year or early next.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The Russian state corporation for space activities, Roscosmos, has pushed back the launch date for the next three-person International Space Station (ISS) crew from June 24 to July 7 to further check out a flight control system issue that could disrupt docking operations, the TASS news agency says.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Boeing and Sikorsky have laid out their pitches for an expected German procurement of heavylift helicopters.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has called for a grounding of all European-registered H225/EC225 helicopters after Norwegian investigators found evidence of metal fatigue in a gearbox component from the aircraft that crashed in Norway in April.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Army launched the in-development Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) from a General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) on May 25, hitting a moving truck target.
Defense and Space

U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (Navair) plans to review ScanEagle contract pricing in the wake of a Pentagon Inspector General (IG) investigation into program transactions.
Defense and Space

Airbus Defense and Space is providing systems engineering support to Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh-based startup that is competing in the Google Lunar X Prize contest to deliver a rover to the Moon’s surface by the end of 2017.
Defense and Space

European nations seek to rebuild defense capabilities with joint programs and cooperative research.
Defense and Space

A meta-skin developed by university researchers shows promise in suppressing radar signals and rendering objects invisible.
Defense and Space

Contractor Rheinmetall proposes advanced technology as a key asset in countering threats to downsized military forces.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
The HTT-40’s first flight | Support contract for aging Kuwaiti F/A-18s | Italian Reaper’s new RecceLite pod | Raytheon and UVision pursue U.S. Army contract
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky’s entry into DARPA’s VTOL X-Plane competition may not have been selected, but the company sees missions for an unmanned aircraft that can operate from small-deck warships with high speed and long range.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Piaggio Aero’s prototype P.1HH Hammerhead unmanned aircraft has been lost after crashing into the sea off Sicily.
Defense and Space

The Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors aboard destroyer DDG 70 USS Hopper successfully conducted two developmental flight tests of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB Threat Upgrade guided missile on May 25-26 off the west coast of Hawaii, the Navy says.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The search for cheaper and quicker ways to bring fly-by-wire benefits to helicopters has taken a step forward with the development of a flight-control upgrade for the Boeing Chinook.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
India’s Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40 (HTT-40) made its first flight on May 31, powered by a Honeywell TPE331-12B turboprop engine.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
Indonesia is overhauling and upgrading its Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker series fighters, even as a long-expected order for additional aircraft appears to be on hold.
Defense and Space

By Angus Batey
As 3-D printing capabilities grow, military users eye the process as a way of meeting urgent part needs where and when necessary.
Defense and Space

A portable tactical robot carries a multi-shot sidearm to remove threats from contested areas.
Defense and Space

Orbital ATK engineers reported apparent success with a hot-fire test of the company’s Antares medium-lift launch vehicle fitted with a new Russian engine Tuesday.
Defense and Space