Turbomeca’s Arrius 2R turboshaft—the first European engine to be fitted to a Bell-produced helicopter—has been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
As the U.S. Navy prepares its budget submissions for the upcoming fiscal year, the U.S. Defense Department wants the Navy to buy 31 more F-35Cs, upgrade current aircraft and cut its fleet of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) or follow-on frigates (FF).
A recent preliminary design review of the AR-1 rocket engine was successful, ensuring the project is on track for full-scale testing in 2017 followed by delivery of a flight qualified unit in 2019 in preparation for certification, according to Aerojet Rocketdyne officials.
Flight testing is due to begin next year for an upgrade of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) T-50 trainer aimed at the U.S. Air Force’s T-X requirement.
Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first NH90 in an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) configuration to the Swedish military, which now plans to increase the number of aircraft it will buy.
India-based Aequs will supply machined components to Dutch firm Fokker Technologies for assembling Boeing’s Chinook helicopters, which India is also buying.
Through partnerships and investments, defense primes and OEMs are increasingly turning the page away from the old playbook of acquiring and subsuming new technology.
The six-nation UCAV demonstrator completed an initial phase in November 2015, but will continue flight trials in 2016 and potentially beyond. In a parallel effort, Britain has just completed a third round of flight tests of its Taranis UCAV demonstrator. And a four-nation effort, led by Germany, is to begin designing an unmanned ISR platform in the spring of 2016.
Congress's defense spending bill includes funding for 68 Lockheed Martin-made F-35 Joint Strike Fighters – 11 more than President Barack Obama requested.
Managers in NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations mission directorate are adding some detail to their vague concept of handing off low Earth Orbit (LEO) to the private sector while they move on to the cislunar “proving ground” for Mars missions.
Congress plans to raise its NASA appropriation for fiscal 2016 to $19.285 billion, $1.285 billion more than the agency received in fiscal 2015 and $785 million more than requested.
Airbus Defense and Space has received a firm order for an additional eight aircraft from the French defense procurement agency, the DGA, bringing the total aircraft on order from the French air force to nine.
NASA needs more rigor in the selection and funding of the advanced technologies it pursues to achieve its most challenging goals, an audit by the agency’s IG says.
If innovation is the defense buzzword of 2015, Northrop Grumman is eager to point out its strengths in pushing the boundaries of aerospace technologies.
As debate continues about funding for the future American nuclear ballistic missile-armed SSBN armed force, the U.S. Navy is moving ahead with Trident missile acquisitions.
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $19.8 million contract, with a potential value of $47.8 million, to develop the replacement inertial navigation system deployed on most Navy combat and support ships.
The U.K.’s new fleet of nine Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft will be delivered in the same vanilla configuration as those for the U.S. Navy, ministers have confirmed.
France’s defense ministry will begin work on three new major space-system developments in the coming year, including an international collaboration with Germany in the area of remote sensing and an operational follow-on to the Elisa signals-intelligence demo.
