Defense

By Marhalim Abas
After four major arms purchases this year, the Thai military government is set to sign on for a fifth this month—a deal for four Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Trump's defense industrial base review, which could report out around April 2018, could set up policy or legislative changes enacted through fiscal 2019 lawmaking.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NanoRacks LLC has demonstrated that spacesuit-garbed astronauts working outside the International Space Station can successfully maneuver around the external surfaces of what is to be the first commercially provided airlock.
Defense

Gen. David Goldfein is leading the charge to create a joint, integrated network he believes will give the U.S. and its allies the edge in battle.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Airbus flies Sagitta; KARI lands tiltrotor; Cranfield leads digital aviation; TsAGI talks quiet supersonics; X-57 makes progress.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Calls are growing for powerplants to be developed specifically to meet the price and performance needs of lower-cost unmanned combat aircraft.
Defense

By Molly McMillin
The world’s second flying B-29 Superfortress completed a 17-year journey with its arrival at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on July 22.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) CEO Ha Sung-yong has resigned amid allegations of wrongdoing at the company, including some by him.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
A communications antenna on a NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite that had been slated to launch next month will need to be replaced after a processing accident at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida.
Defense

By Maxim Pyadushkin
MiG-35 and Mi-38 are in, Zhukovsky is out as Moscow air show MAKS 2017 highlights Russian military orders for new aircraft and news of a new location for the 2019 show.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
One of the leading voices on military matters, the Arizona senator is pushing for more defense funding and assistance for Ukraine.
Defense

UK leaders need to wake up—fast—and figure out how to keep their enviable aerospace sector from going the way of the British Empire.
Defense

The long-wing aircraft is in the same weight class as the Israel Aerospace Industries Heron, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems RQ-1 and Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group Wing Loong-I.
Defense

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Development of Russia’s fifth-generation fighter—the Sukhoi T-50—is nearing the end.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
An impact from a Ceres-sized planetary object early in its history may explain some of the more mysterious characteristics of Mars, researchers in the U.S. and Japan say.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Chris Kubasik’s long-expected rise to become the next CEO of L3 Technologies was confirmed late July 19 when the New York company said current Chairman and CEO Michael Strianese will retire Dec. 31.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
Singapore has offered to send a detachment of UAVs for surveillance or reconnaissance in operations against militants claiming allegiance to the so-called Islamic State in the southern part of the Philippines.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers is parlaying high-resolution imagery of hurricanes and typhoons taken by International Space Station crewmembers into a new business venture to improve storm forecasting worldwide.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA has awarded Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., of Greenbelt, Maryland, a potential $1.12 billion, long-term contract to provide technical, administrative and managerial services at Johnson Space Center.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The 48th anniversary of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing came and went with relative quiet.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
Bad weather has been blamed for the fatal crash of a Myanmar military transport aircraft on June 7.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Iran testing Kosar military trainer; Turkey looks to Russia, Europe for missile defense systems; Honeywell and IAI team to protect aircraft from jamming attacks; Boeing upgrades French AWACS; and Leonardo and Moog partner to make U.S. Army counter-UAS system.
Defense

Two experts on combat aircraft with two very different perspectives on the F-35 debate the pros and cons of the Pentagon’s costliest and most controversial fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Two experts on combat aircraft return for additional debate about the quality of testing and ultimate cost of the Joint Strike Fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

A look at North Korea’s growing missile arsenal and the U.S. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system's first successful intercept of an ICBM.
Defense