Defense and Space

The planned $9 billion purchase could be more defining for Lockheed, the Pentagon’s leading prime contractor, than helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky or even the rotorcraft market.

Boeing is taking another charge on its books, $835 million before taxes, to keep the Air Force's KC-46 aerial refueling tanker program on track.

Think that range, payload and stealth will be the deciding factors in the Air Force’s bomber choice? Think again.

Perceived threat from Turkey keeps Greek defense spending high as country suffers.

Boeing believes airplane manufacturing costs can be cut drastically—and it has a secret program aimed at proving it.

With the rapid growth of commercial aviation, the label “aerospace and defense” has become largely irrelevant, if not entirely misleading.

Is this the beginning of the end of the great A&D stock boom?

Despite Iran deal, the Middle East is a hotbed of weapons sales, FAA threatens to downgrade Thai aviation safety, cost of operating the ISS skyrockets and a politician’s home-state advantage.

USAF sent destruct signals for Falcon 9 a full 70 sec. after mishap.

U.K. defense electronics firm Ultra Electronics is developing a new family of miniature passive sonobuoys that eventually could lend themselves to deployment from unmanned aerial systems.

Aerospace management leaders who explain more in earnings calls may be better able to win the battle for talent and capital, too.

In a Q&A with Aviation Week editors, Raytheon Chairman and CEO Tom Kennedy talks about new opportunities, challenges, and being his own disruptor.

Lockheed could convert the U.K. Royal Air Force’s existing fleet of C-130J airlifters into SC-130Js, reducing procurement costs and technical risks, company officials told Aviation Week on the eve of the RNAS Yeovilton Air Day.

Could live, virtual training fundamentally change the dynamics of future Red Flags?

Interoperability of Europe’s helicopter crews is tested by the Italian Blade exercise.

With Seoul’s selection of the A330 MRTT, the Airbus tanker has now beaten the Boeing KC-46 in nine non-U.S. competitions. Launch customer Australia, meanwhile, has set Airbus’s airliner-to-tanker conversion program in motion.

Australia has scrapped plans to purchase F-35B, the Joint Strike Fighter's short takeoff and vertical landing variant, according to a defense source.

Japan will send two of its new generation Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol aircraft to the Royal International Air Tattoo, which will mark the first appearance of an indigenous Japanese military aircraft at a foreign airshow since 1997.

Design house Dzyne Technologies is flying a subscale model of an VTOL unmanned aircraft that uses its wing as its rotor.

Lapse in Ex-Im bank assistance could hurt Boeing in the long term, and the general aviation community sooner; Former NASA chief provides another perspective on SpaceX’s commercial viability.

U.S. Navy seeking ways to redesign speedboats to reduce wave slam, improve performance.

IAI is testing a UCAV that can surveil, then strike on command from an operator.

Icefin, an unmanned underwater vehicle developed for NASA, could have defense applications as well.

The Baltic Sea is a tight, complex environment, and Saab’s new A26 submarine is designed to thrive there.

U.S. mulls sale of lethal weapons to Vietnam in bid to counter China’s territorial ambitions.