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The Defense Department’s fiscal 2020 hypersonic weapon budget request shows that the path beyond operational flight and weapons prototypes is still long and uncertain.
Rolls-Royce has ground-tested a hybrid-electric propulsion system based on its widely-used Model 250 helicopter turboshaft, paving the way for experimental flights in 2021.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $349.4m U.S. Army contract for two complete battery sets of Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System production hardware and software.
United Launch Alliance is scheduled to launch the 10th Wideband Global Satcom satellite to geosynchronous orbit for the U.S. Air Force March 15 from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral AFS in Florida on a Delta IV Medium+ rocket.
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that from 2019 to 2028, Western-designed military transport aircraft will generate $155.4 billion in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) demand.
Air navigation service providers in the UK and Canada will soon start a joint trial of space-based surveillance of aircraft flying over the North Atlantic.
A U.S./Russian two-man, one-woman crew launched March 14 aboard the Soyuz MS-12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a fast-track to the International Space Station.
Embraer on March 14 confirmed it delivered 91 executive jets and 90 commercial jets last year, in line with what the Brazilian aircraft maker advised in January.
A House Republican is answering Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan’s call to repeal legislation so that the DOD can establish a combatant command for space.
The USAF wants a promised, Boeing-funded upgrade for the KC-46’s remote vision system to include an architectural change that would resolve a fundamental “design flaw” with the current technology, Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Will Roper says.
Aircraft piloted by artificial intelligence algorithms could be flying operational demonstrations within three years, a senior U.S. Air Force official says.
The Kawasaki Heavy Industries OH-1 helicopter is returning to Japanese army service after more than three years on the ground caused by engine unreliability.
The complete engine is designed to provide air-breathing thrust from the runway to Mach 5 and beyond for hypersonic aircraft and, in rocket mode, low-cost access to space.
