Defense

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says he supports the diplomatic and economic pressure being applied to North Korea by the White House and State Department, but “time is running out” before Kim Jong-un has an operational system capable of striking the U.S. mainland.
Defense

By Jay Menon
The unmanned, unpowered RLV-TD is a space shuttle-like subscale reusable spaceplane that is launched atop a booster rocket.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Wes Bush, Northrop chairman, chief executive officer and president, said during the company’s second-quarter 2017 teleconference July 27 that there was a “likelihood that an increasing fraction of our business may become restricted.”
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Chris Kubasik, who will swap his COO title at L3 Technologies for CEO at the end of the year, will focus first on trying to find efficiencies in the company’s Aerospace Systems division.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Speaking in Paris as the company announced its half-yearly results, Trappier said French president Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel clearly want Europe “to have a strong Franco-German pillar,” however he said the timescales for such a program were unclear.
Defense

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
The manufacturers have agreed to supply the weapons, says the office, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), presumably meaning that terms have been settled. But there is no mention of government permissions for exporting the missiles.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
The chief of the Indonesia’s Defense Facilities Board, Rear Adm. Leonardi, says the air force has stated a requirement for a high-endurance unmanned system able to detect, track and attack targets.
Defense

Lockheed Martin has successfully fired its AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (Lrasm) from a new deck-mounted launcher.
Defense

Babak Taghvaee
Iran’s most advanced weaponized UAV is in the midst of full production and has been deployed for domestic and international missions.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Assembly of Czech training aircraft begins; Thai military preparing for more defense imports; Lockheed wins LRASM contract, and Hughes scores wideband satcom study deal.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio, Tony Osborne
Aviation Week’s defense team discusses how Europe’s defense partnerships are evolving.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
After decades of promise is hypersonic technology finally verging on operational capability? The U.S. Air Force thinks so, and is laying out high-speed requirements underpinned by a growing budget for sustained R&D.
Defense

Congressional support is building for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) proposed space-based sensor layer for persistent tracking and discrimination of missiles.
Defense

By Guy Norris
As the U.S. Air Force prepares to solicit industry for development of an air-launched hypersonic conventional strike weapon, for the first time the service is outlining its approach to operationalizing high-speed capability for a wide range of roles.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup ARCA Space plans the first spaceflight on an aerospike rocket engine in August.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance has been awarded a contract by the French Defense Procurement Agency for both the “Maintenance in Operational Condition” and cockpit upgrade of the French Air Force’s four Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Satellite views reveal new evidence for the presence of OH- and/or H20-bearing chemistry trapped in widespread lunar volcanic deposits.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Reporting its second quarter results, a bullish Boeing declared $4.5 billion in cash earnings, approximately double previous estimates.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Aerojet Rocketdyne reports a successful test of the third of four RS-25 controllers for the quartet of space shuttle-era rocket engines that are to power the first stage of NASA’s Space Launch System.
Defense

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
The Korea Aerospace Industries KF-X fighter will have a two-seat version, developers have confirmed.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
North Dakota’s Grand Sky unmanned aircraft business park is planning to begin commercial beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights in mid-August following final approval and equipment installation.
Defense

Interest is mounting in a potential new fleet of low-cost, light-attack aircraft the U.S. and international allies could use to fight terrorists in the Middle East.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The subcommittee markup would provide $2.15 billion for the Space Launch System, an addition of $212 million over the president’s request.
Defense

Bell Helicopter is about to begin tethered ground tests of its V-280 Valor tiltrotor ahead of first flight in September.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody has begun assembly of four of its new L-39NG jet trainers in preparation for development and testing of the new-generation aircraft.
Defense