Ways to prevent missile launches; lawmaker girds for fight against NASA chief; safety outfits issue battery recommendations; the rocky road to rocket replacement.
Lockheed Martin has confirmed its choice of a modernized Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) T-50 for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X advanced trainer competition.
Boeing’s stock price closed down almost 7% on Feb. 11 in volatile trading on Wall Street after investors digested a list of relatively negative headlines regarding the OEM and prime defense contractor.
NASA plans to expand tests of morphing flap technology on a modified Gulfstream III to assess the effect on aircraft noise as well as the potential lift and load shifting benefits from axially twisting the flap to different angles from one end to the other.
The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2017 budget request includes a notable increase in the number of ship- and aircraft-fired missile that starts a solid inventory growth over the future year’s defense plan (FYDP).
Swedish aerospace firm Saab has enjoyed a bumper year of growth thanks to significant contracts from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the Swing-Role Surveillance System (SRSS) and from Brazil’s partnership with the Gripen fighter.
U.S. Air Force F-35As have arrived in Idaho for a month-long simulated deployment, a key test to prepare the aircraft for its interim operational capability declaration later this year.
While the U.S. Marines are figuring out how to evolve their aviation operations to match MV-22 Osprey’s abilities, the Corps is looking to the Special Operation Forces (SOF) to work out some kinks in the tiltrotor aircraft’s communications,
Canada is ending its combat role in the air war against the Islamic State group, stopping airstrikes by its CF-18 aircraft by Feb. 22, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
By Southeast Asian standards, Vietnam is impressively modernizing its military. Singapore seems to be more than adequately armed for facing either of the two countries that surround it, Malaysia and Indonesia.
