Airbus Defense and Space says it is working to resolve manufacturing faults affecting propeller gear boxes inside the TP400-D6 engines that power the A400M airlifter.
The U.S. Navy’s recent Ice Exercise 2016 showcased projects sponsored by the Office of Naval Research that included the use of aerial and space ice-measuring radar systems.
Blue Origin achieved a milestone in reusable spacecraft April 2, launching and recovering a New Shepard suborbital spacecraft for the third time in a row after relatively minor refurbishment.
Plans to put U.S. government astronauts on commercial crew vehicles are raising difficulties in preparing the vehicles for flight, according to an experienced NASA astronaut who also served as an executive at SpaceX.
To be launched in April, the joint pilot project will be an open competition involving the crowdsourced design of a UAV configuration offering improved safety in civil applications, particularly cargo transport.
It is a spacecraft so huge that it can only be tested in pieces, a flagship astronomy mission so complex and cutting-edge that some of its subsystems have never flown in space.
Following a pat on the back to NASA for continued overall improvements in the cost and schedule performance of its major programs, the U.S. General Accountability Office warned the favorable five-year trend could reverse.
The concept is to launch groups of UAVs from large bomber or transport aircraft, or smaller fixed-wing platforms. These “gremlins” would operate in a distributed and cooperative way, Darpa says.
The U.S. Navy continues to carve away at the proposed price for its Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), although some later testing and upgrades could boost the cost, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
DASSAULT AVIATION signed €6.7b ($7.6b) contract with Qatar for 24 Rafale fighter jets. FINNISH DEFENSE MINISTRY plans to release Request for Information for HX fighter program to the governments of the U.K., France, Sweden and the U.S. by April 22. SWISS DEFENSE MINISTRY suspended DSA air defense project pending an expert review of the country’s air defense requirements. COLOMBIAN AIR FORCE accepted 7th Bell Helicopter Huey II Kit in ongoing upgrade program for service’s UH-1Hs. More than 270 Huey II aircraft have been built worldwide.
Boeing confirms more than 4,000 jobs will be cut across the company’s Commercial Airplanes group by midyear as part of cost-reduction efforts announced in February. The move “involves a combination of non-labor cost savings, supply chain savings, and reduced staffing levels. While there is no employment reduction target, the more we can control costs as a whole, the less impact there will be to employment,” the company says.
North America Boeing and the Paramount Group plan to cooperate on a militarized version of the high-wing, two-seat Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft (Ahrlac) to be named Mwari. Boeing will develop an integrated mission system that will enable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and weapons systems.
Russia’s Progress 63 resupply mission lifted off for the International Space Station March 31, initiating a two-day journey with 3 tons of propellant, crew supplies and station hardware.
The Peruvian air force (FAP) is to purchase as many as six Lockheed C-130Js and up to eight more Finmeccanica C-27J Spartans by 2021 as part of a radical overhaul of its air transport fleet.
The latest in a series of test satellites that has advanced the art of space-based navigation is being planned by the U.S. Air Force in a bid to make GPS more resilient in contested environments.
South Korea’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for development of a multi-band radar-absorbing structure for a mockup of an unmanned strike aircraft that has been proposed for service beginning in 2030.
