Austria’s Schiebel Group has formed a new subsidiary to market its Camcopter S-100 unmanned helicopter in the U.S. and named industry veteran Gretchen West to lead the company.
Only two months after government officials warned of a potentially year-long delay, the Russian military has completed the first flight of the Sukhoi S-70 Hunter unmanned assault aircraft, Russian news agencies reported on Aug 2. The flight lasted more than 20 min. before a successful landing, state news agency TASS reported, citing an official statement circulated by the Ministry of Defense.
A possibly design-related blockage of the cooling system in the GOES 17 weather sat is responsible for the degraded performance of the spacecraft’s primary instrument, the $100 million Advanced Baseline Image, an investigation shows.
Hanwha is offering a road-mobile variant of the KTSSM for export, even before the South Korean army deploys the short-range ballistic missile next year.
Japan has lifted the grounding order on its Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning force that had been in place since immediately after one of the fighters crashed on April 9.
Russian arms trade agency Rosoboronexport confirmed this week it has approved the resale of two Ilyushin Il-76MF military transports from Jordan to Egypt.
Since 2013, the U.S. has accused Russia of violating the treaty by developing, testing and deploying a new cruise missile with a range greater than 500 km.
U.S. Navy investigators have begun an inquiry into the fatal crash of a Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet on July 31 during a low-level flying exercise near Death Valley, California.
Avionics companies will show off future cockpit concepts for U.S. Special Operations Command rotorcraft in September, the Sofwerx rapid acquisition office announced.
Boeing has invested $115 million into a formerly shuttered facility to support the Marines common configuration reliability and maintainability program for the MV-22 Osprey.
The Czech Aerospace firm said on Aug. 1 it plans to “omit the certification of the L-39NG in basic training configuration” and deliver the certification of the full trainer configuration, which will allow the aircraft to perform both advanced and lead-in fighter training.
The decision to retain a full-duration static test firing of the Space Launch System core booster all but officially bumps the rocket’s debut flight into 2021.
Israel Aerospace Industries has backed off from a tender to supply UAVs to the Israel Defense Forces, claiming the program as structured would not leave it any profit.
Sir Michael Marshall, president of the Marshall Group and one of the leading lights behind the family-owned British aerospace and defense business, died July 27 at the age of 87.
The Chinese government is suspending the rights of its citizens to make individual visits to Taiwan, restricting visitations only to groups organized by travel agencies.
