The Sikorsky-Boeing team expects to reach its speed target for the SB-1 Defiant coaxial-rotor compound helicopter within the next few months after exceeding 200 kt. for the first time in flight testing at West Palm Beach, Florida.

Britain’s Royal Air Force has developed an in-house modification enabling an aeromedical capability for its BAE Systems’ 146 transport aircraft fleet.

Fleet Readiness Center East is now certified to repair and test 14 F-35 components as part of a new public-private partnership with Lockheed Martin.

The U.S. Air Force has deployed General Atomics’ MQ-9 Reaper medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air systems to Estonia, marking the first such deployment of the platform to the Baltic States.

The first Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC) AT-5 advanced trainer flew at Taiwan’s Ching Chuan Kang Air Base on June 10, meeting a schedule target set two years ago.

Boeing will begin flying the KC-46A Pegasus aircraft in approximately two weeks outfitted with Remote Vision System (RVS) 1.5, a revised version of the refueling tanker’s camera system that includes numerous software changes and a few hardware updates.

The manufacturer of the MQ-9 medium-altitude unmanned aircraft system plans to enter the U.S. Air Force’s competition to select its replacement, dubbed MQ Next.

Raytheon delivered the first production unit of the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System to the USS Carl Vinson roughly one month ahead of schedule.