Aviation Week & Space Technology

With more outreach to commercial industry and international partners, the U.S. is expanding the ways it approaches defense.

Fiscal 2017 U.S. defense budget includes plans to replace Afghan fleet of Mi-17 helicopters.

The latest Chinese air-to-air missile is comparable with a long-range surface-to-air weapon in size and appearance, so its range is probably well over 200 km.

If the German legacy carrier’s pilots don’t compromise on wages or other issues, they may be putting the Lufthansa Group in danger.

Tailsitting vertical takeoff/landing unmanned aircraft takes shape at Northrop Grumman under DARPA’s Tern warship-based medium-altitude, long-endurance program.

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In this week’s Washington Outlook, outsourcing business seems suddenly unpopular, lawmakers ask for a flyoff between the F-35 and the A-10 and the head of Trump’s NASA transition team is named.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

From the Middle East, to India, Canada and Europe, our editors take stock of recent deals and announced sales of fighter aircraft, and size up how that will impact upcoming competitions.

In this week’s roundup, Norway looks to upgrade its maritime patrol fleet, Singapore looks toward operations of a surveillance aerostat, Japan receives its first F-35, Raytheon scores a new Patriot sale and Poland buys Lockheed’s extended-range missile.

The principal investigator for the New Horizons space program says that the volume of unexpected results generated will mean rewriting the textbooks on what is happening in the Kuiper Belt.

The Bell 412 will be built and assembled on both sides of the Pacific. FHI’s manufacturing setup will be a second production line, says Bell.

Airbus aims at short A350-1000 flight test program and considers larger family member.

Embraer CEO cites pragmatic market reasons for delaying E175-E2 debut amid scope clause uncertainty. Production of the current E175 will be extended.

Like much of the business world, Boeing is waiting to see how Trump’s trade policies will affect its exports.

Operators are seeing wrinkles in the low-observable coating that could eventually peel off and compromise the fighter’s stealth.

Malaysian carrier sees huge potential for its proposed A380 charter operation, which would be based on Muslim pilgrimage traffic.

House and Senate negotiators have finalized a $618.7 billion defense policy bill that increases funding for military readiness and higher troop levels at the expense of proposed fighter plus-ups.

Fewer delays, better arrival time estimates expected with modern air traffic management tools under development at Thales.

ESA’s vision for Europe’s participation in space is expected to be bolstered by a vote of confidence and cash from the 22 member states that comprise the space agency.

Possible changes to the NH90 helicopter include more payload, enhanced electro-optical system and teaming with unmanned aircraft.

After 10 years of development, the Navy’s $14 billion MQ-4C Triton program is preparing its fifth and sixth aircraft for deployment to Guam.

Philippine Airlines has ambitious growth planned, but airport capacity issues must be resolved.