President Donald Trump’s threats in response to North Korea’s missile tests have lawmakers on Capitol Hill debating whether he should be allowed to singlehandedly direct a first nuclear strike.
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As Sikorsky begins assembly of the first two operational CH-53Ks for the U.S. Marine Corps, GE Aviation has been awarded a $143 million contract for production of 22 more engines for the “King Stallion” heavy lifter.
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), the developer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, has begun an investigation into why the aircraft broke free from its mooring mast and deflated.
F-22 pilots assigned to Al Dhafra air base are seeing unexpected, potentially threatening movement from Russian fighters flying over Iraq and Syria with growing regularity.
The Ball Aerospace-built JPSS-1 is the first of four similarly instrumented spacecraft developed to extend severe weather forecasts out as far as seven days.
KUALA LUMPUR—Indonesia has pledged more funds to help state aircraft manufacturer Indonesian Aerospace, especially to make its 19-seat N219 light twin turboprop aircraft an export success.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved possible $170m foreign military sale to Norway of 60 AIM-120 C-7 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (Amraams) and four Amraam guidance section spares. NORTHROP GRUMMAN has AUS$200m ($150m) sustainment contract for Australia’s newly acquired C-27J Spartan aircraft fleet.
Launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/NASA Joint Polar Satellite System-1 satellite from Vandenberg AFB, California, has been rescheduled for early Nov. 18 following a pair of last-minute countdown scrubs earlier this week. Liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II is set for 4:47 a.m. EST, or 1:47 a.m. local time (PST).
The U.S. Air Force plans to stand up a “Shadow Operations Center” at Nellis AFB in Nevada to test new concepts for multidomain operations involving air, space and cyber platforms and weapons: U.S. Air Force
Japan’s defense ministry and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are working on bonding technology that would largely eliminate fasteners from aircraft structures and thereby greatly cut weight.
The U.S. Air Force is looking for companies that can launch a boost-phase missile warning satellite that is equal to or better than today’s Space-Based Infrared Systems by 2025.
Intelsat General says it has taken another step forward in the exchange of information between satellite and UAV, this time demonstrating inflight beam switching between its high-throughput Epic 29e and a Block 5 MQ-9 Predator B.
Magellan Aerospace, a Canadian manufacturer of aerospace parts and systems, on Nov. 15 declared a groundbreaking on its new manufacturing and assembly facility near the Bangalore International Airport.
