Avic is making its first moves into the market for dedicated attack helicopters, developing an export version of the Z-19 attack helicopter that an official says could be delivered in 2017.
AM GENERAL has $89.5m U.S. Army contract for 64 M997A3 HMMWV ambulance vehicles for domestic disaster relief efforts by the Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard.
Italian manufacturer Alenia Aermacchi is pushing ahead with the development of its M-345 High Efficiency Trainer (HET) and has declared international interest in a proposed dual-role variant of the M-346.
The six-person International Space Station (ISS) is well provisioned into late this year, according to station commander Scott Kelly of NASA and his predecessor, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka.
Both ships are of the size of the country’s first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, the report says. Liaoning was bought unfinished from Ukraine in 1998, completed at Dalian and commissioned in 2011.
Parallel-processing experts at Draper Laboratory will use techniques developed for government customers that need to handle “massive data streams” to create ground systems for a laser-based high-bandwidth orbit-to-Earth communications system being commercialized under license from the Aerospace Corp.
Ballistic missile defense features prominently in Japan’s proposed military budget for its next fiscal year, with the defense ministry seeking to build one Aegis destroyer and upgrade two others for the role while preparing for production of the interceptor they will carry.
Demonstrations underway aboard the International Space Station involving visiting European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen could have far-reaching implications for the roles humans and robots play in the exploration of Mars and other planetary surfaces.
Flight testing has cleared the first two helicopter types for operation from Australia’s two new assault ships, while the navy takes an interest in the possibility of sometimes applying the vessels to anti-submarine operations.
Japan’s defense ministry proposes in its fiscal 2016 budget to place money-saving multiyear orders for Sikorsky H-60 helicopters, to be built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries under license, and imported Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor transports.
The company behind the Meteor air-to-air missile’s throttleable ducted ram-rocket propulsion, Germany’s Bayern-Chemie, says a feasibility study shows the technology could power a Mach 5-plus lower-tier ballistic-missile interceptor.
The U.S. Air Force has elected to extend the time between major repair overhauls for its stealthy B-2 bombers by two years and decrease the time needed for each overhaul.
The last aircraft, the 279th off the line, was rolled into the facility’s paint shop at the end of August and will shortly begin engine and systems checks.
Deliveries of Royal Australian Navy MH-60R helicopters from Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin are running ahead of schedule, because U.S. budget-control measures are forcing delays in acquisition for the U.S. Navy.
U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler pilots fired an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile off the coast of Virginia during a Tactical Support Wing training event earlier this month, marking the first time Electronic Attack Squadron 209 (VAQ-209) has employed the Raytheon-built missile.
The FAA is proposing to update its decades-old rules that do not formally recognize launch and recovery operations for high-powered amateur rockets on U.S. soil.
Russia’s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station early Sept. 4, delivering a three-man crew for a week of spacecraft and personnel exchanges as well as technology demonstrations and science experiments.
Denmark’s first astronaut plans to join with ground-based researchers at ESA’s Telerobotics & Haptics Laboratory in The Netherlands over his weeklong stay aboard the International Space Station to demonstrate technologies for the orbital control of robots on planetary surfaces.
Budget experts begin to worry about a potential government shutdown; the FAA disputes method of finding control tower inefficiencies; and NASA tells lawmakers it is tough on Space X.
