Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

India has successfully conducted the first-ever midair refueling of its indigenously-developed light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas.
Defense

By Graham Warwick, Tony Osborne
Russian Helicopters has signed contracts to supply 104 Ansat light and 46 Mi-8AMT medium helicopters for air ambulance services across Russia.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
A months-late first flight date for a ducted fan unmanned air system (UAS) designed by a Lockheed Martin/Piasecki team has been reset to October.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A British entrant into the fledgling urban air mobility business has lifted the veil on its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air vehicle.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Sikorsky-owned PZL Mielec has delivered an M28 utility transport to the Ecuadorian army, the company announced Sept. 10.
Defense

L3 TECHNOLOGIES has $9.2m U.S. Air Force contract for Agile Small-Satellite Experimental Telescope.

The Indian Army has ordered a high-altitude unmanned aircraft system developed by Israeli company Bluebird Aero Systems.

Sept. 12-13—Aero-Engines Europe, Hamburg, Germany. For more information go to http://www.ndia.org/events/2018/9/17/8240---undersea

By Michael Bruno
SAIC is buying Engility for around $2.5 billion, the companies said Sept. 10.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Dawn, NASA’s 11-year, first-ever mission to orbit two relics from the formation of the Solar System’s planets in the main asteroid belt, is drawing to a close.
Defense

India’s state-run National Aerospace Laboratories and New Delhi-based Mesco Aerospace Ltd. are developing a two-seater aircraft for pilot training and surveillance.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing a $2.9 billion contract modification Sept. 10 for the fourth lot of KC-46A tankers.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Russia’s new-generation agricultural aircraft, the all-composite T-500, has secured its first order, for 10 aircraft, from Russian operator RusAvia.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Boeing is making another new space-related startup investment.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
China’s Beidou 3 satellite navigation system may be completed in the first half of 2020, earlier than expected.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The State Dept. has OK'd the sale to Japan for up to nine Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft for $3.1 billion.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
U.S. officials are pressuring Belgium to decide on a future fighter.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
California-based Viasat has signed a contract with United Launch Alliance (ULA) for an Atlas V flight.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully placed the Telestar 18 Vantage/APSTAR 5C comm sat in a geostationary transfer orbit Sept. 10 after launch from Cape Canaveral.
Defense

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $164 million contract modification for an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft for Japan.

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By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Marine Corps will spend $1 billion on counter-unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technology over five years beginning in fiscal 2020.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Marine Corps is quietly debating whether to own and operate its own MQ-9 Reaper fleet to build a cadre of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operators.
Defense

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $164 million contract modification for an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft for Japan.

By Arie Egozi
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ground units are acquiring more unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), including quad-rotor drones.
Defense