Mitsubishi Aircraft

Forecasts, snapshots and military aircraft to watch.

Facing tight deadlines and a rapid pace of development, GCAP’s industry partners seek the right ingredients for a joint workflow.

The trination Global Combat Air Program could see several hundred export sales of the crewed aircraft that emerges, industry figures suggest.

Volocopter has completed its first uncrewed demonstration flights with its 2X prototype in Saudi Arabia.

Readers write about the Boeing 747, airline operations snafus, vertical flight on Mars and the Mitsubishi SpaceJet.

Astroscale has raised a $76 million Series G round of capital and plans to jointly develop satellite buses with Mitsubishi Electric.

The loss to Japanese industry and government is more than just the $7 billion funneled into the ill-fated SpaceJet program.

Mitsubishi Heavy attributed the failure of the SpaceJet to an insufficient initial understanding of the highly complex certification process for airliners.

The move, if confirmed, comes as little surprise following Mitsubishi’s late 2020 decision to freeze work on the loss-making program.

The Super Interceptor must confront masses of cruise missiles but also include a high-performance air-to-air missile.

Industrial and governmental joint ventures would allow more national partners to join the program and benefit from volume.

Boeing will slow production of 777 and 787 widebody twinjets as well as development of the next new aircraft program as it continues restructuring to

Mitsubishi Aircraft on Mar. 18 conducted the first flight of the first SpaceJet prototype that conforms to the new, certifiable design of the regional jet.

Japan’s defense ministry has proposed to start working with a foreign partner on the country’s Next Generation Fighter.

Japan will extended local assembly of Lockheed Martin F-35s by at least two years.

Local production of the Sikorsky UH-60J has suffered the largest cut in the defense budget for the coming fiscal year OK'd by Japan.

The amount of spending suggests a greater effort than put into previous concept designs earlier in this decade for the aircraft.