Chinese state space industrial group Casc will begin testing a demonstrator methane-burning rocket engine using the expander configuration in November.
The U.S. Army’s selection eliminates rival bids by Northrop Grumman and newcomer Technovative Applications to develop a significantly improved radar system for Patriot.
BAE Systems has unveiled a next-generation threat management technology that can work with fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft to dispense countermeasures.
Turkey is pushing ahead with its ambitious plans to develop and deploy an indigenous fifth-generation fighter, known as the TF-X or Milli Muharebe Uçağı (national combat aircraft).
The U.S. Army has awarded L3 Technologies a $454 million, five-year contract to supply Wescam MX-10D sensor systems to upgrade the service’s RQ-7B UAVs.
These victories, while impressive, have led to questions on pricing and whether the company is effectively buying the market by offering the lowest prices around.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program will begin operational test and evaluation in November, which means the jets may be cleared for full-rate production in summer 2019.
Defying a potential threat of punitive measures by the U.S., India has signed a $5.43 billion contract with Russia to buy five advanced S-400 air defense systems.
Japan has decided to develop a new fighter, preferably with a foreign partner, rejecting the alternative of buying aircraft of existing but improved designs from British or U.S. companies, the Mainichi newspaper said.
Following a successful 17-hr. mission of the Mascot rover on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, France and Germany have agreed to send a follow-on spacecraft to Phobos, a Martian moon.
Low bids propped up by its commercial airplane business helped Boeing snare $25 billion in military contracts including the T-X, MQ-25 and MH-139 competitions. But could the OEM’s strategy backfire in the long run? Aviation Week editors and Teal Group’s Richard Aboulafia break it down.
The Pentagon will make “selective” investments and promises a new era of close cooperation with defense contractors as part of an emerging response to President Donald Trump’s executive order to study ways to bolster the defense industrial base.
The Bell 412EPI is back in contention for a Philippine requirement for 16 helicopters, despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s politically driven cancellation of an order for the type in February.
A no-deal Brexit would “significantly disrupt trade” and negatively affect smaller, less diversified companies, analysis of the aerospace and defense industry by credit ratings agency Moody’s has suggested.
