The U.S. Navy is worried about the number of missiles it has in its collective quiver, Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, told the House Appropriations Committee.
After years of western rotary wing dominance, Russian helicopter manufacturers will take over the top slot as the single largest force in global sales over the next five years, the American Helicopter Society (AHS) predicts.
Bell Helicopter is believed to have attached the wings to the fuselage of its V-280 Valor tiltrotor, marking a key step toward completion of the company’s advanced-rotorcraft technology demonstrator for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role (JMR) program.
United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) is due to begin deliveries of Sukhoi Su-35 fighters to China this year, with engineers of the Chinese aeronautics industry possibly looking forward to the arrival of the aircraft just as much as the air force is.
While the debate continues to simmer about the cost and need for maintaining the nation’s aircraft fleet, the U.S Navy is moving ahead with the refueling complex overhaul (RCOH) of CVN 73 USS George Washington.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION will speed up deployment of Galileo satellites by adding an Arianespace Soyuz launch carrying two satellites in May 2016, in addition to four already scheduled on Ariane 5 ES during 4Q 2016. NASA licensed UAV comms technology to VIGILANT AEROSPACE SYSTEMS, OK. Integrated C2 system is capable of collision warnings, real-time traffic/weather updates.
Weapons exports have increased by 14% in the last five years compared with the 2006-10 timeframe, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The U.S. and Russia made up the largest share of sales – 58% between them. The third largest exporter, China, saw its exports grow by 88%, though its share of the market of international weapons sales is still just 5.9%. And more than two-thirds of Chinese weapons are being exported to neighbors of India – Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
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Almost two years after the Swiss populace voted down proposals to replace the country’s F-5 Tiger fighters with the Saab JAS-39 Gripen, Switzerland’s government has restarted evaluations for a future fighter.
NASA is funding Lockheed Martin to complete preliminary design of an X-plane demonstrator to show whether the shock-wave signature of a 100-120-seat low-boom supersonic airliner would be acceptable to the public, clearing the way for supersonic flight over land.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has flown a version of the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Extended Range (ER) unmanned aircraft with a new wing to further increase endurance.
The Last Man on the Moon, a moving film documentary that explores the life of former U.S. astronaut Gene Cernan, opened in select theaters across the U.S. last weekend.
India has allocated 2.58 trillion rupees ($38.6 billion) to defense spending for its 2016-17 fiscal year, a marginal increase of 9.7% over last year’s revised estimates of 2.33 trillion rupees.
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) are in the very early stages of developing a futuristic vessel that soars like an aircraft across water at more than 100 kt.
Whether the deal would be good for the aerospace and defense (A&D) sector increasingly is being called into doubt, based on growing reactions from industry insiders.
Engineers at NASA continue to work toward developing the advanced Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) in time for the first Space Launch System (SLS) mission with a crew, and have until late this summer to decide if it can be done.
A Lockheed Martin official remains optimistic that the F-25 program is on track to begin initial operations on schedule in August or by December of this year.
Australia has decided on early replacement of the Airbus Tiger attack helicopter, apparently regarding the type as not worth the expense of modernization.
