The U.S. approval, as expected, clears the path for the Japan Ministry of Defense to become the largest customer for the F-35 outside the U.S. and expand the customer base for the short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing F-35B.
More than a month after the U.S. Army secretary green lighted the use of air assets during a June 1 protest of the death of George Floyd in Washington, lawmakers will finally have access to the Pentagon’s investigation report.
With the interplanetary highway to Mars poised to open next week, spacecraft owned by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and NASA have been loaded onto their respective launch vehicles at Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center and Cape Canaveral.
A United Nations report into the use of armed drones has suggested that the U.S.-sanctioned killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Iraq in January violated international laws.
Britain is planning to restart arms sales to Saudi Arabia, a year after judges found that government ministers had been unlawfully signing off on export licenses.
Damaging attacks by SUAS on Saudi oil facilities last September prompted the Pentagon to quickly seek to rationalize a counter-small unmanned aircraft systems (C-SUAS) architecture,.
Renewable hydrogen will play a key role in supporting the EU’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2050 by reducing emissions from hard-to-decarbonize sectors such as aviation, according to the European Commission’s Hydrogen Strategy unveiled on July 8.
The FAA and Switzerland’s Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) will cooperate on the development and coordination of drone safety standards, the agencies announced July 8.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has a strategy for winning support from a Republican-led Senate for NASA’s full $25.2 billion fiscal 2021 budget request, after Democrat-led House authorizers voted against a requested 12% topline increase.
NASA and Boeing have completed a joint review of software and verification problems that cut short the uncrewed flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, resulting in 80 recommendations to be implemented prior to a repeat test targeted for late this year.
DARPA has selected Calspan to modify up to four Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros jet trainers to test whether pilots will trust the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to automate dogfighting.
The U.S. Navy is taking another step in improving the readiness of F/A-18 and EA-18G aircraft by reversing a more than 10-year-long shortfall of generator control units (GCU).
A U.S. emergency medical services (EMS) helicopter operator has become the first commercial customer to order an instrument flight rules (IFR)-certified AW119 single-engine light helicopter.
Satellite communications provider Viasat said July 8 that it has removed internet speed limits for business aviation subscribers to its Ka-band service plans.
Aerion Supersonic is partnering with Canada-based clean energy company Carbon Engineering (CE) to evaluate the potential use of a sustainable synthetic jet fuel produced from carbon dioxide (CO2) for the AS2 supersonic business jet.
South Korean electronics giant Hanwha Systems plans to cooperate with the country’s airports operator in developing infrastructure and services for urban air taxis.
