Aircraft & Propulsion

Unspecified issues have delayed certification by the FAA of the military-unique features on the derivative of the Leonardo AW-139 civil helicopter.

The U.S. Air Force’s $156.3 billion budget request for fiscal 2022 marks a 2.3% increase over the previous year, and includes funding to buy 48 Lockheed Martin F-35As.

Special Operations Forces face a difficult decision on the A/MH-6 replacement, depending on the Army’s choice for FARA.

Russian S-500 production; combatant chief supports tanker retirements; UK chooses U.S. weapon; South Korean missile development.

The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) has confirmed it has begun taking delivery of its new Boeing CH-47F Chinooks heavy-lift helicopters.

The Philippines is set to take delivery of its first pair of Turkish Aerospace Industries T129 ATAK gunships in September, after the U.S. approved export of the rotorcraft’s engines.

Model-based systems engineering is emerging as a potential solution to aerospace’s slow, costly processes.

In a policy reversal from a year ago, the head of U.S. Transportation Command will support the Air Force’s plan to start retiring the Boeing KC-135 fleet in order to invest the proceeds from operational costs into KC-46 procurement.

Airbus has reached a milestone of 100 deliveries of its A400M airlifter with the handover of the 10th aircraft to the Spanish Air Force.

The UK’s Tempest future combat air system initiative could generate more than 20,000 jobs and pump £26 billion ($37 billion) into the economy between 2021 and 2050, suggests an independent review of the program.

The UK Ministry of Defense has opted for Lockheed Martin’s Joint Air-to-Ground Missile rather than MBDA’s Brimstone as the primary weapon for its new AH-64E Apache attack helicopter fleet.

Another clash over the Army’s proposals to defer CH-47F Block II production is brewing as fiscal 2022 budget drops.

The specter of war with China across the vast Pacific Ocean has provoked the U.S. military to re-imagine the command-and-control mission, spend

Poland has joined the growing list of countries to export armed unmanned air systems from Turkey.

The first of the UK’s two new aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has set sail on its initial deployment.

The trinational Future Combat Air System team is considering various arrangements between the New Generation Fighter (NGF) and its associated remote carriers, aiming to 2027 for first flight of the demonstrators.

Having identified a solution to issues that have so far prevented the successful airborne recovery of an unmanned aircraft under DARPA’s Gremlins program, Dynetics plans to resume flight tests in the fall.

Russia’s United Engine Corp. plans to complete a demonstrator of its first hybrid-electric powerplant by 2023, says Mikhail Shemet, deputy director of the PDV future helicopter engine program at Klimov.

The French Navy has ordered an additional two commercial model H160 twin-engine medium helicopters from Airbus to support the search-and-rescue mission.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has inducted the JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft into its fleet as part of an ongoing modernization.

Airbus and the Republic of Singapore Air Force say they have completed development of an automated aerial refueling capability for the A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport.

If the first quarter is any indication, A&D is about to throttle up share buybacks and dividend payments into afterburn.

MH-47G buy is the first phase in UK Chinook fleet modernization.

NASA has discovered new information that may help solve the mystery behind F-35 pilot physiological episodes.

Pratt & Whitney plans to open a new engine airfoil facility in North Carolina in the second half of 2022 to support the ramp-up in global F135 production, but facility construction was delayed for six months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.