Defense

By Arie Egozi
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out one of its most massive air attacks in years on May 9.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
The Avic Xian Y-20 Chinese airlifter has taken a step toward full operational capability with its first airdrop of supplies.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
A private Chinese company says it will launch its first rocket, a suborbital research vehicle, around May 17.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX remains on track to begin vertical takeoff and landing testing of the upper stage of its Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) in 2019.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
A House subcommittee quickly marked up a $62.5 billion fiscal 2019 spending bill late May 9 that includes more than $21.5 billion for NASA.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India’s state-run space agency has built an atomic clock that will fly in an upcoming indigenous navigation satellite.
Defense

By Joe Anselmo, Michael Bruno
Airbus and Boeing could be stuck with dozens of passenger airplanes, but missile defense sales could see an uptick. Aviation Week editors discuss the unfolding scenarios.
Air Transport

The U.S. Army is shadowing Canada’s collaboration with Boeing on autonomous flight control technology. for the CH-147F.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
Arrow-3’s Alaska Flight Delay, a new container for BrahMos missiles, Indonesia receives Grob trainers, and Rand sizes the risks of additive manufacturing.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has revealed the governments that her department has selected to take part in the UAS Integration Pilot Program.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Australia is holding course on its military spending buildup.
Defense

By Arie Egozi
An intercept test of the Arrow-3 to be performed in Alaska to adapt the hit-to-kill missile interceptor to evolving threats has been indefinitely delayed,
Defense

By Michael Bruno
The European Commission has given the green light for United Technologies Corp. (UTC) to acquire Rockwell Collins.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
Indonesia has taken delivery of six more Grob Aerospace G120TP turboprop trainers.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
British space companies are being barred from tendering for Galileo contracts as Brexit approaches.
Space

The U.S. Army’s laboratories are advancing degraded visual environment technology to allow pilots to fly and fight in blackout conditions.
Defense

USAF Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein has directed a one-day pause for all Air Force flying and maintenance wings to conduct a wing-level safety review.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Explore Mars Inc., finds urgency in a Mars sample return mission as well as new communications relay and reconnaissance assets in orbit around the red planet.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Uber has announced new partnerships, and its partners have revealed new vehicle concepts.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
The USAF intends to award contracts to Lockheed and Northrop to build five sats that will form the basis of an interim space-based missile warning system.
Defense

India has built a prototype of the “Quadruple Canisterized Inclined Launcher” that will allow warships with space constraints to launch the BrahMos missile.
Defense

Aircrew are still reporting dangerous, unexplained physiological episodes in the cockpit. And the service still has no idea why.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Passive optical seeker is set to upgrade three existing weapons with GPS-denied navigation and automatic target recognition.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
France has the lead role in the Franco-German future combat air system, but some, including the country’s financial watchdog, question equality of roles.
Defense

The Pentagon has resumed accepting deliveries of F-35 aircraft from Lockheed Martin following an agreement on who would cover the cost of a production error.
Defense