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.
Raytheon and a team of Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace will compete to make a mission payload for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation missile warning satellite constellation.
Lebanon and Kenya have helped to bolster the order book of MD Helicopters with purchases of armed versions of the company’s MD530 single-engine light helicopter.
Arlington Capital Partners and Smiths Group have reached a definitive agreement for the latter to buy United Flexible, an Illinois-based parts provider for PW1000G and F135 engines and the Airbus A320neo, for $345 million.
Chinese space group Casc plans to begin a commercial orbit-and-recovery service in 2019, with about 15 more launches planned in the following six years.
Extant Aerospace has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets and tech data rights from the operations of NavCom Defense Electronics.
India’s national space agency will test fly its first small rocket, the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, in the first half of 2019, a senior space scientist says.
A disrupted acquisition of Welding Metallurgy Inc. by CPI Aerostructures will move forward and could close as soon as this year after a court-ordered arrangement with seller Air Industries.
Following its participation in Exercise Blue Shield in Sudan and Exercise Red Flag in the USA, the Royal Saudi Air Force undertook a further major training exercise, Faisal-11, in Egypt. Jon Lake reports.
Latest FMF deal with Israel begins, Bulgaria’s fighter competition begins, Lockheed’s new Hellfire contract and Russia developing self-guided artillery.
Boeing’s efforts to develop the core stage of the SLS are in step with efforts to prepare the Orion crew module for an unpiloted multiweek test launch around the Moon by mid-2020.
Sikorsky’s industry-funded S-97 Raider has exceeded 200 kt. in flight testing as the company prepares to offer the high-speed helicopter for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA).
Under the FARA competitive prototype program, also dubbed FVL Light or Capability Set 1, the U.S. Army anticipates awarding four to six initial contracts in June 2019
A 2.1-lb. DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter drone tore a hole in the leading edge of a light aircraft wing in a simulated 238-mph midair collision in ground tests.
The European-built power and propulsion module for NASA’s Exploration Mission-1 is scheduled to leave the Airbus Defense and Space manufacturing facility in Bremen, Germany, on Oct. 29 for Kennedy Space Center.
“We’re working hard to get this done this year," a SpaceX official says. "At this time the Falcon might be ready, but we might still have some paperwork on the certification side."
