Defense

India has successfully conducted the first test of its BrahMos air-to-ground variant supersonic cruise missile, taking a step toward augmenting its military’s combat potential.
Defense

The U.S. Air Force is taking another step toward re-engining the Boeing B-52H strategic bomber, announcing an industry day at Barksdale AFB next month.
Defense

The U.S. Navy has picked Raytheon to outfit its new telemetry range aircraft, based on the Gulfstream G550 airborne early warning business jet.
Defense

For more than a decade, the Ghana Aviation Unit (GHAV) was deployed in Côte d'Ivoire as part of a UN peacekeeping force. Erwan de Cherisey looks at what was achieved and the legacy left by the unit as it finally went home earlier this year.
Defense

Poland Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz on Nov. 22 signed a contract for delivery of a batch of 1,000 Warmate lethal drones.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Saudi aerospace capability is broadening its capabilities and knowledge with airlifter, helicopter and UAV projects.
Defense

CAE is looking to replicate the success of its Canadian C-130J training program in Trenton, Ontario, as it sets up a training center for the C295W search-and-rescue aircraft in Comox.
Defense

Following the fielding of the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton, the U.S. Navy is about to begin development of the MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based tanker.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
As airstrikes in Syria and Iraq begin to wind down, they are ramping up in Afghanistan and relying on precision munitions to reduce concerns about mounting civilian casualties.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
MIT’s Beaver Works collaboration with Lincoln Laboratory is tackling an air-launched mini-drone that can keep up with the fighters that launch it.
Aerospace

By Mark Carreau
New findings from NASA’s 12-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggest sliding sand and dust rather than seasonal flows of briny water are responsible for the 2011 discovery of recurring slope linae on Mars.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Japan’s defense ministry is leaving open the possibility of deferring a decision on how to replace the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) F-2.
Defense

The U.S. Air Force’s $7 billion decision whether to replace the Northrop Grumman E-8C J-Stars with another radar-carrying aircraft or take another path comes down to survivability, and how long it might take to field something better.
Defense

By Bill Carey
The U.S. Air Force’s 47th Flying Training Wing suspended flying operations through the Thanksgiving holiday weekend at Laughlin AFB, Texas, following the fatal crash of a T-38 Talon training jet near the base on Nov. 20.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NanoRacks LLC logged the first deployments from the International Space Station of 6U CubeSats in the more mission-capable 2U-by-3U form factor early Nov. 21.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
The latest concept design of Japan’s proposed indigenous fighter may have moved a little away from the bias toward long range and endurance over flight performance of the previous preliminary design.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. State Department has approved Poland’s request to purchase a so-called “tailored” version of Raytheon’s Patriot air missile defense system for $10.5 billion.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Facebook is working with Airbus to advance spectrum and aviation policy that will enable high-altitude pseudo-satellites—stratospheric unmanned aircraft—providing broadband wireless connectivity.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
About $30-40 billion of lead program opportunities should be available for nontraditional defense bidders over the next five years.
Defense

The service’s wide-area maritime surveillance UAV, the MQ-4C, is about to undergo operational testing, as a forward operating base stands up on Guam. Photo: Northrop Grumman
Aviation Week & Space Technology

The U.S. Air Force has decided that it needs a new air superiority fighter, but it is going to cost American taxpayers a pretty penny.
Defense

The stealth F-22 Raptor conducted its first strikes in Afghanistan the night of Nov. 19.
Defense

By Maksim Pyadushkin
Russia’s new airborne early warning and control aircraft, the A-100 Premier, flew for the first time on Nov. 18 from Taganrog in southern Russia.
Defense

Avionics and weapon systems upgrades have transformed the U.S. Air Force’s Vietnam-era B-52 bomber into a valuable intelligence asset.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
FAA approves safe spherical drone; JAXA tests cut airframe noise; Workhorse sets SureFly flight date; A³’s Vahana readied for flight; smaller VTOL UAV from UMSSkeldar
Aerospace