As tensions on the Korean peninsula grow hotter and hotter, imposing costs on the U.S. military, Aviation Week editors discuss whether it is time to learn how to live with a nuclear North Korea.
The fate of United Technologies Corp.’s proposed $30 billion takeover of avionics and cabin interiors leader Rockwell Collins could rest on savings that the newly enlarged supplier provides to all-important customer Boeing.
The Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft program has been in development since November 2015, intended to replace the U.S. Army’s C-12 Huron and C-26 Metroliner fleets.
France’s MQ-9 Reaper medium-altitude, long endurance (MALE) unmanned air vehicles (UAV), thus far used for surveillance purposes, will soon carry air-to-ground weapons.
Germany startup Lilium has received $90 million in investment to continue development of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) urban air transport aircraft.
Lockheed Martin is pursuing a close integration between the Orion crew capsule it is developing for NASA and the proposed lunar-orbiting Deep Space Gateway and follow-on Deep Space Transport.
The gates to NASA’s storm-drenched Johnson Space Center reopened Sept. 5, with space agency managers hopeful that operations will return to normal as soon as possible.
The first F-35 squadrons are set to receive aircraft equipped with a version of the final software load, but the program still has significant hurdles to overcome in its final stretch.
The U.S. Air Force's OA-X experiment is not an aircraft-procurement program, and neither is a new initiative announced back in July, called Light Attack Support for Special Operations (LASSO).
Missile defense features prominently in the latest budget request of the Japanese defense ministry, with plans for acquiring Aegis Ashore and additional ground- and sea-based interceptors.
“The [spacecraft's] heat shield did not separate, as a result of which the satellite didn’t complete the fourth stage,” says A.S. Kiran Kumar, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization.
On Capitol Hill, many deadlines and obstacles must be overcome to keep government functioning; A&D leaders remain focused on potential tax cuts; Sen. McCain gears up to return.
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is continuing to invest in low-cost attritable UAV platforms that could someday fly operations alongside manned fighters like the F-35.
Harris is to supply an active electronically scanned array (AESA) to BAE Systems for the radio-frequency countermeasures (RFCM) system it is providing for U.S. Air Force special-operations Lockheed Martin AC-130J gunship and MC-130J tanker/transports.
The “Rude Rams,” of Hill AFB, Utah, are set to receive aircraft equipped with an initial release of the final Block 3F software in September, but not the final updates that are still under test.
An Antonov An-26 cargo aircraft contracted by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) was burnt down after overshooting the runaway and crashing during a botched landing at the Maban Air Strip in South Sudan. By Oscar Nkala.
