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.
Arrow-3’s Alaska Flight Delay, a new container for BrahMos missiles, Indonesia receives Grob trainers, and Rand sizes the risks of additive manufacturing.
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,
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.
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.
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.
India has built a prototype of the “Quadruple Canisterized Inclined Launcher” that will allow warships with space constraints to launch the BrahMos missile.
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.
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.