Malaysia is not ready to buy the Dassault Rafale, despite a renewed push by France to persuade the country to choose the fighter for a current requirement.
BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin have won contracts for training and support of the UK’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighters once the aircraft arrive in the UK in 2018.
Elon Musk achieved a major step toward his goal of lowering the cost of space launch March 30 with the successful relaunch and recovery of a “used” Falcon 9 first stage on a commercial orbital mission.
Heather Wilson said she expects the U.S. Air Force to evaluate the cost of restarting Lockheed Martin’s F-22 production line, and the effectiveness of the Raptor against emerging threats.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $32.8m U.S. Navy contract for software and product support for full-rate production Lot 5 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORP. has $32.3m U.S. Navy contract for aircraft spares and manufacturing labor for U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K system demonstration test article.
Blue Originwill receive the 2016 Robert J. Collier Trophy from the National Aeronautic Association “for successfully demonstrating rocket booster reusability with the New Shepard human spaceflight vehicle
North America Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), a global communications and information provider, will buy Earth imagery and info provider DigitalGlobe of Westminster, Colorado, for about $2.4 billion.
Two NASA astronauts finished configuration of the Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 outside the ISS’s U.S. segment Node-2 Harmony module during a spacewalk.
The USAF is trying to unshackle itself from the typical all-or-nothing way of buying stealth fighters and return to the glory days of the “Century Series.”
Airbus has dropped plans to produce the E-Fan family of electric light aircraft and instead is working on the larger and more powerful E-Fan X, which could fly within three years.
It might not be as devastating as a tactical nuclear weapon, but the U.S. Army believes the Kinetic Energy Projectile could have the same deterrent effect.
Electrification of aircraft engines is only a decade or two away, so thrust providers must be working now to stay relevant by then, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt says.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $47m U.S. Air Force contract for engineering and operations services in support of Space and Missile Systems Center Ground systems and Space Operations division through Jan. 5, 2019. BOEING has $59.2m U.S. Air Force contract for interim contracting support for KC-46 Pegasus through March 24, 2018.
Japanese online retailer Rakuten has formed a joint venture with low-altitude airspace service provider AirMap to provide air traffic management for unmanned aircraft systems, or UTM. Rakuten is developing a drone delivery service, called Sora Raku, and has been testing drone delivery since April 2016. The new Rakuten AirMap joint venture will provide UTM services to drone operators and airspace managers in Japan. Operators will be able to create flight plans and file them with airport and airspace managers.
View the PZL Mielec M28 Spec Showcase in PDF format. Description : The M-28 is a Polish utility transport built by PZL Mielec. It is the latest version of Antonov’s An-14/28/38 family. The aircraft are powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A large series or Glushenkov TVD-10B turbine engines. As of March 2016, there were 82 M-28 or other variants of the An-14/28/38 in military service in nine countries.
Boeing is looking to turn its V-22 Osprey into a mini gunship with a large, forward-firing gun, precision-guided rockets, and possibly even laser weapons.
A prominent conservative think tank is urging the U.S. Air Force to slash its planned buy of Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft to invest more resources in other next-generation capabilities.
