A British Royal Air Force pilot who sent an Airbus A330 Voyager tanker aircraft into a dive when his camera jammed the controls forward has been cleared by a court-martial of lying to investigators.
President Donald Trump has appealed to both Democrats and Republicans in Congress to start rebuilding the military after what has been perceived as a recent period of stagnation and decline.
The U.S. Navy has signed a contract with Boeing for seven more EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft and five single-seat F/A-18E Super Hornets, which will keep “Rhino” production humming as President Donald Trump, Canada and Kuwait flirt with potential orders.
The next air-launched cruise missile the U.S. Navy buys under the Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare program should be competitively selected and must be capable of destroying maritime and land targets, the service’s head of precision strike weapons says.
NASA has inked a $373.5 million deal with Boeing that includes options for three more seats on Russia’s Soyuz vehicle for missions to the International Space Station.
Satellite communications giant Intelsat will acquire LEO-based Internet services startup OneWeb and the new company will be financially backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group.
Leonardo’s PicoSAR active electronically scanned array synthetic aperture radar has been chosen to equip the French army’s new Patroller UAV as well as Schiebel Camcopters destined for a North African country.
The Guizhou Aircraft Industries Corporation of China (GAIC) says it will soon deliver six FTC-2000 two-seater,advanced fighter-trainer aircraft to the Sudanese Air Force (SAF)interms of a deal signed early in 2015, reports Oscar Nkala.
The chain of 49 early warning and control radars built during the Cold War to safeguard North America are becoming obsolete, and the U.S. and Canada have begun looking for a longer-range, wider-area replacement for detecting threatening aircraft, missiles and ships.
President Donald Trump’s proposal for a $54 billion increase in defense spending will face significant hurdles in Congress—and not just by those who oppose the administration’s planned offsets in non-defense discretionary spending.
Bell Helicopter has been quietly studying commercial derivatives of its V-280 tiltrotor, but says the civil version will only be possible if the aircraft is adopted by the military first.
South African defense firm Paramount is working to develop an armament package for operators of the Aerospatiale/Airbus Helicopters SA330 Puma and the AS332 Super Puma utility and transport helicopters.
Disruptions from a tornado that struck NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Feb. 7 have likely slowed production of the propellant tanks for the core stage of the inaugural Space Launch System rocket by a couple of months.
The service will abandon plans to immediately pursue a more robust, one-for-one Warthog replacement, as the venerable attack plane will continue flying well into the 2020s.
The U.S. Air Force is developing a 2,000 lb.-class bomb called BLU-136 that will rain down metal fragments on enemy forces as a replacement for cluster munitions.
