Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov says it is in discussions with Honeywell and Dowty as it looks to the West for suppliers for its An-132 aircraft program with Saudi Arabia.
Defense and Space

Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket will fly again after achieving an intact powered vertical landing of the launch vehicle and parachute recovery of the unpiloted crew capsule to conclude a test flight.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Moscow is ending military ties with Ankara after a Turkish fighter shot down a Russian aircraft when Turkey said its airspace was violated.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
Aerojet Rocketdyne has been awarded a $1.16 billion NASA contract to restart production of the RS-25, the former space shuttle main engine, for the Space Launch System.
Defense and Space

While U.S. and Chinese defense officials have been trading barbs over South China Sea patrols, ships from the two navies continue to drill with one another.
Defense and Space

The Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division has opened a new facility that provides work space for the crews of Virginia-class submarine pre-commissioning units while their submarines are under construction.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Do we still have a need for speed? Join Aviation Week as we discuss the history and technology of speed and whether, moving into the future, supersonic aircraft are economically feasible.
Air Transport

By Mark Carreau
An advance in gamma-ray spectrometers could prove valuable in the detection of valuable materials locked under the surfaces of asteroids, moons and other airless bodies.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The U.K. will buy 138 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and order nine Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft as part of an $18 billion defense spending hike.
Defense and Space

China appears to be growing more impatient in its geopolitical ambitions, says Adm. Harry Harris, the Pacific Command commander.
Defense and Space

The U.S. Defense Department continues to face challenges in ensuring it fully reviews its inventory of contracted services, the U.S. GAO says.
Defense and Space

The X-47B carrier-launched demonstrator UAV operated seamlessly with legacy aircraft during recent flight tests aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Slow progress in Australia’s submarine acquisition program will probably force the country to modernize its current six boats, a Canberra think tank says.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
India has test-fired an indigenously-developed supersonic interceptor missile as part of its efforts to develop a full-fledged, multi-layer ballistic missile defense system.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Complex or risky tasks in flight testing or training can be simulated in the aircraft using a virtual display in the cockpit.
Aerospace

A formal protest of the Pentagon’s Long-Range Strike Bomber award to Northrop Grumman has to be based on failure to follow rules, but the challengers’ public case goes far beyond that.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Flutter-suppression X-56 crashes; laser IDs target by vibrations; new venture to commercialize morphing structures; Airbus helo R&D in the U.K.; Iceye’s low-cost radar imaging from space.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Indra of Spain is developing an unmanned version of its P2006T MRI maritime reconnaissance and intelligence aircraft.
Defense and Space

SpaceX has its first order from NASA for a crew launch to the International Space Station under its Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) with the U.S. space agency.
Defense and Space

Twenty-two private U.S. companies have joined forces with NASA to advance development of technologies considered at the “tipping point” of readiness for use in space exploration.
Defense and Space

By Jay Menon
The Indian army will not order any more indigenously developed Nishant UAVs because all four aircraft supplied by the Defense Research and Development Organization have crashed.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Russia is continuing to use its combat operations in Syria to test and prove new capabilities, employing air-launched cruise missiles to strike targets this week.
Defense and Space

China is becoming a regional aerial powerhouse, growing its fleets of aircraft, including unmanned vehicles, and arsenal of missiles, a National Bureau of Asian Research report says.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Lockheed Martin’s X-56A unmanned aircraft was severely damaged in a crash shortly after takeoff from the dry lakebed at Edwards AFB, California, on Nov. 19.
Defense and Space

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency needs to be more consistent in transitioning new technology from research to operational use, a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says.
Defense and Space