On Wednesday morning U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein will appear at the Heritage Foundation to discuss “Rebuilding Air Force Readiness.”
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis says he has personally reviewed U.S. intelligence about an April 4 chemical attack in the town of Khan Shykhun and has no doubts that the Syrian regime is responsible.
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has demonstrated autonomy for unmanned combat aircraft in a manned/unmanned teaming experiment supporting the U.S. AFRL's Loyal Wingman program.
The French and German ministers of defense have signed an agreement for the creation of a binational tactical air transport base in Evreux, France, using Lockheed Marcin C-130J Hercules airlifters.
Airbus sees strong potential in an on-demand helicopter booking service incubated within its Silicon Valley outpost A³ and now in beta testing in Sao Paulo.
Thales has received a 10-year service contract from the French Ministry of Defense worth $1.04 billion for the creation of an aeronautical consumables supply chain.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $11.9m U.S Air Force contract for the C-130J center wing box replacement program through Aug. 31, 2019. ARNOLD DEFENSE AND ELECTRONICS LLC has $11.9m U.S Navy contract for manufacturing of launchers and/or sub-components to support Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force operations through November 2017.
Hybrid Air Vehicles has unveiled improvements to its Airlander as it prepares to return the hybrid airship to flight following repairs after the heavy landing on its second flight in August 2016. An auxiliary landing system has been added to enable the aircraft to touch down safely at a greater range of landing angles. This comprises a pair of airbags on either side of the flight deck that the pilot can deploy to provide extra cushioning. The airbags are about 10 ft. in length and inflate in under 20 sec. using existing ballonet fans and lifting gas.
Raytheon’s long-serving Tomahawk cruise missile has been the Pentagon’s weapon of choice for day one of a conflict for almost three decades, but in 2014 the U.S. Navy proposed ending production to fund a successor.
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NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko departed the six-person International Space Station early April 10.
The Tomahawk cruise missiles launched in response to Syria’s latest chemical weapons attack damaged or destroyed more than 20 Syrian fighters, the Pentagon says.
The odd-looking hybrid electric UAV that Aurora Flight Sciences is building for DARPA could be weaponized and adapted for the U.S. Marine Corps’ “MUX” mission.
Scientists may have unraveled an explanation for the thin atmosphere that seems to come and go from Ceres, the largest of the Solar System’s main belt asteroids.
The Roketsan Laser-UMTAS (L-UMTAS)/Mizrak laser-guided missile was fired from the modified first prototype Hurkus-A in a demonstration on a weapon range in central Turkey.
