Defense

British aircrews are gearing up to fly four of the UK’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighters across the Atlantic to their permanent main operating base.

Aerospace fasteners and machined parts provider Wesco Aircraft, which also provides supply chain management services, has unveiled a business turnaround plan.

ULA piecing together Vulcan rocket; Israeli Air Force’s transport upgrade; Saab builds Gripen facility in Brazil, and Indonesia receives two more maritime patrollers.

The Trump administration’s plan to cut off direct U.S. funding for the International Space Station (ISS) in 2025 drew a sharp, bipartisan rebuke May 16.

An advanced rotorcraft that can fit within the same deck space as the H-1 but is fast enough to sprint ahead of the V-22 are among key attributes the USMC is seeking from the planned FVL program.

The U.S. Marine Corps has taken delivery of its first Sikorsky CH-53L King Stallion heavylift helicopter.

The U.S. part of U.K.-based BAE Systems could be responsible for roughly half of the aerospace and defense prime contractor’s annual sales come 2020.

NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold exchanged a pair of external ISS thermal control system components during a May 16 spacewalk.

The Israeli Air Force has completed the upgrade of its first C-130H after a yearlong modification that extends the aircraft’s lifespan with advanced avionics.

India’s space agency plans to add four backup navigation satellites to keep its indigenous navigation satellite system effective.

U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command has ID'd 9 key areas where it seeks tech advances to assure a comparative advantage over peer and near-peer foes.

A U.S. Army UH-60M Black Hawk is to be converted to full-authority digital flight control under a cooperative research and development agreement with Sikorsky.

Bell’s V-280 advanced tiltrotor has flown in cruise mode, with nacelles horizontal, finishing the transition from vertical to forward flight for the 1st time.

Aircraft structures and parts provider Triumph Group has divested three more business units as the company’s slogs through a corporate turnaround.

Booming demand, tariffs and geopolitics jeopardize aluminum and titanium supply for aerospace manufacturing.

The Air Force has directed a one-day flight pause for units to conduct wing-level safety reviews.

Development of the improved Boeing CH-47F Block II version of the Chinook heavylift helicopter for the U.S. Army is accelerating.

When the Vulcan rocket debuts in 2020, its Centaur upper stage will be powered by Aerojet Rocketdyne’s’s RL10 engines.

The U.S. Army is gathering potential requirements for another evolution of the Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.

Fighter aircraft, combat helicopters and transports supplied to Israel from the U.S. are almost immediately being upgraded.

Barely a few years into making significant digital investments, some A&D executives already may be at risk of losing patience with the changes, a study says.

A Senate bill would block F-35s to Turkey, while House lawmakers could instead delay JDAM deliveries.

Reaction Engine ponders accelerating the schedule as its U.S. test site ramps up and funding builds.

Certifiable flight and ground control software for UAVs that is based on a system developed by NASA for spacecraft has been flight tested by Windhover Labs.

The first launch of Area-I’s Altius tube-launched unmanned aircraft from a special-operations gunship has been conducted.