President Donald Trump on May 14 criticized the international supply chain model adopted by his predecessors for the Lockheed Martin F-35, saying the decision to globalize parts production for the stealth fighter is an example of “stupidity.”
A team of Turkish engineers is proposing a family of hydrogen fuel cell-powered electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for package delivery, as well as for personal and regional air mobility.
An estimated 5,000 spent rocket bodies and retired multinational spacecraft that circle the Earth—some with a mass of up to several tons—are part of a growing orbital debris population that poses a lingering collision threat to national security and civil space assets.
The Leonardo (formerly Alenia Aermacchi) M-346 Master is an Italian advanced jet trainer. It is powered by dual Honeywell F125-GA-200 turbofan engines.
Loon has signed a deal with African telecommunications provider Vodacom under which the Alphabet company will provide internet service to remote parts of Mozambique using its stratospheric balloons.
As many as a fifth of lower-tier suppliers in aerospace and defense could exit the sector over the next 18 months as COVID-19 disrupts the commercial aviation market and hurts the defense industrial base, seasoned supply chain experts have told Aviation Week.
A British think tank is advocating the use of the U.S. Navy’s secretive Advanced Airborne Sensor on British P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft as a potential replacement for the Sentinel radar reconnaissance platform.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied Airbus’ formal protest over the U.S. Navy’s decision to select Leonardo to provide its new training helicopter.
U.S. Special Operations Command plans to transfer the pilots and support crews for the U-28A fleet to the Armed Overwatch platform as the new close air support aircraft enters service, an acquisition official said on May 13.
Boeing and the UK Civil Aviation Authority are to work together on developing requirements for beyond-visual-line-of-sight unmanned flight operations as a steppingstone toward a future mobility ecosystem.
The Senate Armed Services Committee recently met to consider a bewildering decision by the FCC to OK the building of a low-power, ground-based network for 5G cellular and Internet of Things data services that opponents say could interfere with GPS receivers.
Listen to your experts, listen to your vehicle, and expect the unexpected. That’s the advice a panel of human spaceflight veterans has for SpaceX as the company prepares for its landmark Demo-2 flight to the International Space Station (ISS) later this month, which will restore the U.S. human orbital spaceflight capability lost after the 2011 retirement of the space shuttle.
The Norwegian government is injecting an additional 206 million Norwegian krone ($20 million) into defense equipment programs to address the country’s weakening currency.
The Bell 360 Invictus helicopter is one of two aircraft designs competing for a U.S. Army contract, but it does not meet a critical requirement for one of the planned major operators, a Special Operations Command acquisition official said on May 12.
The organizer of the Australian International Airshow has deferred the next edition of the biennial from February 2021 to November of the same year, citing doubts about availability of international travel.
The schedule for the Armed Overwatch program could become an early victim of rising political hostility during an election year, U.S. Special Operations Command’s acquisition chief said on May 12.
The top Democrat on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is urging Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to reopen the federal loan application process for businesses that are critical to national security, and revise the eligibility criteria to include the aerospace supply chain to help support the defense industry during the global coronavirus pandemic.
