KAI, South Korean partners, Airbus and the industry ministry will pay to develop the LCH civil rotorcraft from the Airbus H155. The defense ministry will pay to develop the LAH from the LCH.
Despite some naysayers in the U.S. A&D sector, most suppliers from overseas view the U.S. as a vibrant market where capitalism at its finest plays out.
Northrop Grumman takes the oldest Global Hawk flying and shows it can be upgraded to take new payloads using an open system architecture, paving the way to refreshing technology in production aircraft.
The aerospace and defense giant comes under new leadership, with big decisions waiting that could remake the company as it heads toward its second century.
Development of revolutionary engines at GE Aviation is setting the stage for the next 50 years in military aircraft propulsion, engineers there believe.
Almost every year since he was appointed CEO of Boeing, James McNerney has sat down with Aviation Week editors to discuss the company’s strategy. We look back at over a decade of interviews with McNerney.
The long-awaited restructuring is at hand, even if the economic and business logic it expresses is defying conventional expectations of how it would unfold.
The U.K. is planning to invest in a helmet mounted cueing system for its Panavia Tornado GR4 fighter bomber aircraft, even though they are due to exit service in four years.
The transition is expected to go well for the original equipment manufacturer and Pentagon prime contractor, which turns 100 years old next year and may reach $100 billion in annual revenue around the same time.
The cut in build time is a key parameter in the drive to reduce costs toward the $80 million unit targeted for an aircraft in the 13th low rate initial production (LRIP) lot decade’s end.
