Much as commercial aero engine companies moved years ago toward selling their powerplants below cost to secure marketshare, Boeing Defense may be headed in the same direction with recent program wins including T-X.
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A deep-sea salvage project to recover the remains of a U.S. Navy C-2A resting 18,500 ft. below the surface of the Philippine Sea could be postponed by several months due to weather, a senior official says.
A fault in manufacturing a rotor mast caused the crash of a Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) Surion helicopter of the South Korean marine corps on July 17, the Ministry of Defense said.
After a one-year delay, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin have finalized an $11.5 billion contract for the production and delivery of 141 F-35 Lightning II aircraft.
Bell has demonstrated its Hydra distributed-propulsion vertical-takeoff-and-landing testbed at Canada’s Unmanned Aircraft System Center of Excellence in Alma, Quebec.
The Indian air force has test-fired the indigenous Astra beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile as part of a sequence of trials leading up to the system’s induction into the military.
William Garvey, editor-in-chief of Aviation Week’s Business & Commercial Aviation Magazine, is a recipient of the National Aeronautic Association’s (NAA) 2018 Wesley L. McDonald Distinguished Statesman of Aviation Award.
House lawmakers who favor establishing a U.S. Space Corps within the U.S. Air Force are dismissing Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson’s memo that cited a $12.9 billion initial cost estimate to establish a separate Space Force service.
The U.S. Marine Corps has conducted the first-ever combat strike with Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning IIs in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in Afghanistan, the service says.
Airbus has demonstrated manned-unmanned teaming (MUT) between aircraft in flight trials involving five target drones controlled by a mission commander on a manned command-and-control aircraft.
F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin has awarded Harris Corporation a contract to supply the next Integrated Core Processor (ICP) for the fifth-generation fighter under a follow-on modernization phase.
United Technologies appears unlikely to make its own end-of-September deadline for closing the roughly $30 billion acquisition of avionics and cabin interiors giant Rockwell Collins.
With the Pentagon’s top research and engineering officials rattling lecterns to focus U.S. industry’s attention on providing more hypersonic weapons and defenses against purported Russian and Chinese advances, companies such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Aerojet Rocketdyne and others are positioning to be players in the market.
The Philippine Navy’s two Leonardo AW159 Wildcat multirole helicopters will be armed with the LIG Nex1 Blue Shark lightweight torpedo as its main anti-submarine weapon, the South Korean company says.
The Philippine Coast Guard has placed an order for an Airbus H145 helicopter, making it the first government customer of the rotorcraft in the country.
