BAE Systems, Boeing and Lockheed Martin have formally expressed interest in supporting Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in the development of Japan’s F-X fighter.
Belgian Air Force officials have been flight testing Diamond’s DART-550 turboprop trainer as a potential replacement for its fleet of SIAI-Marchetti SF-260 aircraft.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) wants to move some employees from its suspended SpaceJet program to defense activities, as part of a wider intention to apply skills from the civil aeronautics business to the rest of the group.
Japan has selected Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to commence development of the F-X fighter, making the company responsible for the complete aircraft, including propulsion.
At the time the picture was taken in daylight hours, the unknown aircraft was flying above California City in a racetrack pattern at an estimated altitude of 20,000 ft.
If fielded, the capability could transform the C-17 and C-130 fleets into two of the U.S. Air Force’s most powerful standoff bombers, with the C-17 alone offering one-third more firepower at long range than the 24 JASSM-ER missile capacity inside a Boeing B-1B weapons bays.
Raytheon Technologies expects to end 2020 with $10 billion in cash on hand, in part thanks to a new deal to sell its Forcepoint cybersecurity business, but also due to 20% fewer commercial aerospace employees, executives said Oct. 27.
The head of the U.S. Air Force’s mobility aircraft fleet has outlined a series of future aircraft programs that will come online after the KC-46A Pegasus.
The JSE creates a synthetic world that allows operational testers to gauge the F-35’s performance in theater-level scenarios. JSE testing is delayed from December to some time in 2021.
British unmanned technologies firm Blue Bear Systems has demonstrated the swarming of 20 unmanned air systems of different types in a beyond-visual-line-of-sight flight.
BAE Systems has received a contract with a $400 million ceiling to join a pool of 14 companies that are competing to develop a digital design for the Skyborg unmanned air vehicle (UAV) for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).