Defense

By Robert Stallard
Winners in the boosted Pentagon budget are likely to include space, cyber and nuclear weapons.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

The two-year agreement includes overriding budget caps to bring defense and nondefense spending to new highs.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Russia halted an attempt at a fast-track Progress re-supply mission to the International Space Station for a second time early Feb. 11.
Defense

As Northrop’s next-generation B-21 “Raider” comes online later this decade, the Air Force wants to phase out the nuclear-capable B-2 and conventional B-1, according to two sources with knowledge of the budget discussions.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus is to pay €81 million ($99 million) to resolve a German investigation into potential corruption over the sale of Eurofighter aircraft to Austria.
Defense

It is now 39 years since the revolution that removed the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, from his throne.
Defense

By Bill Carey
The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish licensing and service rules for the operation of large unmanned aircraft within a designated radio frequency band.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
The top commercial aerostructures provider in the world plans to make its respective defense and fabrication initiatives $1 billion lines of business within three to five years.
Defense

The leader of a probe into unexplained physiological events in the Navy's fighters and trainers says her team is closer to finding a solution in F/A-18s.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The French government this week presented its military spending plan for 2019-25, confirming a will to increase defense expenditures after decades of cuts.
Defense

UTC Aerospace Systems has completed the eight sled tests required to qualify the Advanced Concept Ejection Seat-5 for installation on the B-2 stealth bomber,
Defense

UTC Aerospace Systems is taking tactical recon multispectral, claiming development of an “MS-110” variant of its DB-110 electro-optical/infrared sensor.
Defense

Boeing remains committed to expanding the signals intelligence capabilities of its P-8A Poseidon multimission maritime platform.
Defense

Despite an embarrassing trade rift with Bombardier in Canada, Boeing’s military aircraft unit is not giving up on other potential business opportunities.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Boeing declined to comment on news reports that it was in talks to acquire aerospace and industrial control system and parts provider Woodward.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Commercial space operators still face significant airspace access and regulatory hurdles to grow the industry, proponents were reminded at a conference.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems has revealed it is working on designs for future aircraft weapon and equipment bays using a specially designed rig connected to a wind tunnel.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Within five years “everything” will change about how Lockheed Martin does business, the CFO of the Pentagon’s leading contractor by sales predicted.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA has OK'd Sierra Nevada to proceed with preparations for the launch of its first reusable Dream Chaser resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Defense

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
North Korea has revealed a new short-range ballistic missile that is similar to the Russian 9K720 Iskander.
Defense

By Maksim Pyadushkin
Russia's defense ministry plans to order 114 more Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopters.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Boeing foresees Super Hornet sale to India; Switzerland grounds F/A-18s; U.S. green-lights naval weapons sale to Finland, and Turkey’s new Anka-S UAS.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
With tax cuts and market growth fattening balance sheets, industry is busy trying to right the wrongs of its past.
Business Aviation

Thomas McCabe
The nation should prepare for an unlikely but not unthinkable possibility—a surprise attack by a modernized Chinese military.
Defense

Russian Helicopters will deliver seven multi-role Ka-32A11BC helicopters to foreign customers in 2018.
Defense