Defense and Space

With production drying up, Eurofighter partners are spending money on Typhoon upgrades in hopes to catch an impending wave of Middle East fighter orders.

Italy’s indigenous HammerHead UAV funded by the United Arab Emirates gets airborne with Reaper and Predator in its sights.

Middle Eastern countries have recognized the usefulness of low-cost light attack aircraft, and others are beginning to follow their example.

Rand analysis suggests joint military aircraft programs are unlikely to achieve life-cycle cost savings if they attempt to maximize airframe commonality.

The F-35’s version 3F software is still lagging for the aircraft’s development, though version 2B, needed for the Marines, has nearly finished testing.

Modernization of Australia’s air force moves forward, in concert with plans to fully network air, land and sea operations under Plan Jericho.

India tends to drag out defense equipment orders, but its increasingly close relationship with Japan augurs well for ShinMaywa’s chances of completing a deal for US-2 amphibians.

While New Delhi negotiates for a small share of Sukhoi T-50 development, its defense ministry engineers prepare a fighter that would be 80% Indian

State Department finally lays down a new policy for exporting military and commercial UAS.

BAE’s company-owned Hawk, ZJ951, will begin flying with some of these technologies in September, a senior BAE Systems executive told Aviation Week at the IDEX show in Abu Dhabi.

Under fire for A-10 retirement plans, USAF holds close air support summit to ‘reset’ the debate

Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion Blakey is leaving her position to become CEO and president of RRNA at the company’s Reston, Virginia, headquarters, and chair its U.S. board of directors.

Conspiracy theories surrounding MH370 persist because many people do not grasp the difficulties of searching such a vast and desolate area, even given all the state-of-the-art equipment and personnel dedicated to this task.

Boeing hopeful of new business from a resurgent Qantas, looks for growth in military programs.

The Boeing Talon Hate pod, which is designed to provide that connectivity, was requested by Pacific Air Forces as a quick-reaction project needed to link the stealthy F-22 with legacy fighters.

Decades have elapsed between Rafale leaving the drawing board and landing a foreign sale.

New program starts are going to be extremely hard-fought and without increased budgets, and extensions of mature lines also may be more difficult.

Seeing an end to its monopoly, ULA turns toward a commercial model.

Obama administration announces long-awaited new export guidelines for military UAVs.

The U.S. Air Force is having difficulty explaining how a request for $220.5 million for a “red-air” aggressor aircraft got into the fiscal 2016 budget plan for the T-X sent to Congress.

Even if India does not meet its requirement for 1,000 new helicopters by 2020, its military will be ordering a vast number of new rotorcraft.

United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) plan to field a new rocket engine with Blue Origin called the BE-4 is only step one of a larger strategic plan to take the company from a sole-source benefactor mentality to competing in a burgeoning commercial market.

Even if the slow progress on an Iranian nuclear deal yields results, the nation’s missiles will still pose a regional problem.

So far, laser weapons have been deemed too big, too expensive and insufficiently lethal for mainstream use. General Atomics says it has taken steps to solving that problem.

The Navy significantly reduces its planned F-35C orders and starts new investment in standoff weapons, some for Hornets and Growlers.