The Pentagon expects to definitize the contract for the latest tranche of low-rate initial production F-35s by the end of the year, along with one for F135 engines made by Pratt & Whitney.
Boeing will build and test three U.S. Army CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopters as part of a modernisation effort that will likely bring another two decades of work to the company's Philadelphia site.
Sikorsky is to refurbish former U.S. Army UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters for firefighting and disaster relief in Australia in the first deal of its kind, the Lockheed Martin company says.
In the wake of Pyongyang's second successful intercontinental ballistic missile launch, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) tested Thaad against an air-launched medium-range ballistic missile target.
Capt. Jeff Haney was flying over Alaska in late 2010 when an engine bleed-air malfunction on his F-22 Raptor caused the control system to shut off oxygen flow to his mask.
It may be just business, but already the CEOs of major aerospace equipment makers are sending warning shots to each other as manufacturers increasingly look to capitalize on the aftermarket.
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Seventeen days after a mishap that killed 16 Marines and sailors, the U.S. Marine Corps is grounding its fleet of 12 KC-130T aircraft out of an abundance of caution.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
