Defense Aircraft & Propulsion
Feb 18, 2021
UAE’s Hope and China’s Tianwen-1 open new chapters in Mars exploration.
Feb 18, 2021
SOCOM plans Armed Overwatch buy; GBSD moves past initial review; GE engine to power Italian helo and Denmark bolsters Arctic defenses.
Feb 17, 2021
Developed for the fighter community, Leonardo’s BriteCloud expendable decoy may now find a niche in protecting UAS.
Feb 16, 2021
A segment of a $620 million market for advisory air training could be replaced by UAS.
Feb 15, 2021
With both Boeing VC-25Bs still months away from entering flight test, a one-hour documentary set to air for the first time in the U.S. on the…
Oct 31, 2023
The flight on Oct. 27 from the Boeing factory at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport comes 2.5 months after the third F-15EX rolled-off the assembly line.
Oct 31, 2023
PteroDynamics' X-P4 prototype flew nine autonomous launch and recovery demonstrations from the deck of the expeditionary fast transport ship at a Navy event.
Oct 30, 2023
A long-belated update of the Pentagon's assessment of China's fighter fleet helps reveal the systematic inaccuracies of the annual China Military Power Report.
Oct 30, 2023
The order is second time lucky for the AW149 in Poland, as Leonardo was previously beat out by Airbus’ H225M—although that order was cancelled in 2016.
Oct 30, 2023
A gun camera photo with the F-22 in sight appears in a PAF 5th Fighter Wing publication, with a caption describing the kill as having been made with a “Fox 2.”
Oct 27, 2023
The Bayraktar TB3 Siha, featuring foldable wings and twice the 700-kg maximum takeoff weight of the TB2, took off at 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 27.
Oct 27, 2023
The Oct. 26 contract—worth $364.3 million—covers production and delivery of the six MH-60R helicopters for Norway.
Oct 26, 2023
Beta Technologies has flown an Alia electric aircraft prototype to Eglin AFB, Florida, to begin at least three months of flight testing with the U.S. Air Force.