Japan has issued standing orders to its armed forces to shoot down foreign missiles, five days after the country was caught unaware by the closest impact so far of a North Korean ballistic weapon.
Italian defense and aerospace firm Leonardo-Finmeccanica is to establish a new U.K. entity focused on its three main core businesses: aerospace, defense and security.
The ability of V-22 Osprey tiltrotors to perform carrier onboard delivery missions at night will offer the U.S. Navy greater potential to move passengers and cargo to and from the ships than the aircraft currently doing those operations, a Navy vice admiral says.
The loss earlier this week of another Hornet, an F-18C, is keeping the Navy on pace for is most expensive year for aircraft incidents since fiscal 2009, an Aviation Week analysis of Navy Safety Center record shows.
Shareholders of Pentagon tactical radio and FAA services provider Harris are seeing a slight boost in stock price after the federal contractor revealed a new stake by an activist investor, a development that has also spurred talk of divestitures.
FAA commercial-space officials have authorized a robotic lunar lander and a suborbital human spacecraft for flight, marking a regulatory double play for the private spaceflight industry.
As Air Force Special Operations Command’s legion of night-flying killers wreak havoc on battlefields around the globe from the AC-130 Stinger II and Spooky gunship, the first up-punched AC-130J Ghostrider armed with a 105-mm cannon has arrived at Hurlburt Field in Florida for developmental testing.
