Dassault CEO Eric Trappier on March 8 expressed disappointment in the lack of progress in the Anglo-French unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator program.
Boeing Phantom Works rolled out the “T-1” tanking UAV prototype in November 2014, but kept under wraps until recently. Now, the covers have finally come off.
The U.S. Air Force is once again under fire from U.S. lawmakers over its fumbling of a helicopter program to replace the Bell UH-IN Huey, which has been in active service since 1970.
For the first time since the MSL Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012, scientists have used one of the rover’s sealed wet chemistry cups to seek organic compounds.
In his first public appearance in the newly created role of undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, former NASA administrator Mike Griffin stressed that near-peer adversaries like Russia and China are making advances in hypersonics that pose serious threats to U.S. forces.
Australia is closer to achieving its “OneSky” goal of merging its civilian and military air traffic control systems after signing $936 million in contracts.
Indonesia is set to become the second export customer of the Airbus A400M airlifter, with the state-owned enterprise ministry intending to buy two aircraft.
The Somalia National Air Force was decimated by the Ogaden War with Ethiopia in the late-1970s and the civil war in the 1990s. It now has no aircraft and has been reduced to guarding the airport. However, the Somali Government has approved a plan that will reboot the service by training pilots and buying aircraft so it can contribute to the fight against al-Shabaab. Tim Fish reports from Mogadishu.
The U.S.’s planned development of a low-yield nuclear SLBM and SLCM punctuates a turning point in the long-running drive toward arms reduction as Putin also unveils new weapons meant to undermine Western missile defenses.
Boeing’s master schedule currently pegs first aircraft delivery to the fleet in the second quarter, but the Air Force now believes delivery is more likely to occur in late 2018.
If it takes as long to field a sixth-generation fighter aircraft as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has, the warplane “may already be irrelevant.”
Instead of large, manned, vulnerable aircraft providing command and control and ground surveillance, the USAF now wants a more survivable, networked approach.
The first Northrop Grumman RQ-4 equipped with the UTC Aerospace Systems MS-177 imaging camera has moved to Beale AFB, California, to begin operational testing.
Thales says it has found more than one customer for its Avionics 2020 flight deck, unveiled five years ago and featuring an advanced human-machine interface.
