Defense

Space start-up Rocket Lab is gearing up for the first test flight of its Electron launch vehicle during a 10-day launch window opening May 17.

Japanese acquisition of at least two Lockheed Martin Aegis Ashore installations for ballistic-missile defense looks increasingly likely.

Piasecki Aircraft is pursuing a modular multimission vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle for the U.S. Marine Corps’ emerging MUX expeditionary unmanned aircraft requirement.

India’s Tejas Light Combat Aircraft has successfully test-fired a Derby air-to-air Beyond Visual Range missile, a major step toward the aircraft’s Final Operational Clearance.

The six-metric-ton T625 is the result of Turkish program launched in 2013 to locally produce a rotorcraft that could replace hundreds of aging UH-1 Hueys.

Marine Corps is touting the stealthy JSF in training exercises in Japan, South Korea, and Alaska.

Nineteen months after the U.S. Air Force banned lightweight pilots from flying the F-35, the service is lifting the restriction.

Boeing will build its next-generation T-X training aircraft in St. Louis, where it already completes assembly and checkout of the F/A-18 and F-15.

Italian investigators probing the fatal crash of the second prototype AW609 commercial tiltrotor have concluded that faulty logic within the aircraft’s flight control system ultimately led to the accident.

Amid heightened tensions with China and North Korea, the U.S. Marine Corps is showcasing the F-35B’s warfighting capabilities in exercises around the Pacific Rim.

The U.S. Air Force has settled on Textron’s Scorpion jet and AT-6 Wolverine turboprop, along with Sierra Nevada and Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano, to face off in a light attack demonstration this summer.

The U.S. Air Force has settled on Textron’s Scorpion jet and AT-6 Wolverine turboprop, along with Sierra Nevada and Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano, to face off in a light attack demonstration this summer.

The United Arab Emirates has requested up to 160 new Patriot missiles built by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon in a deal worth up to $2 billion if finalized.

Boeing is positioning for U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command’s (Usasoc) future H-6 replacement program by offering to upgrade and life extend the current fleet and deliver a new, advanced model based on the company’s AH-6.

India has postponed the launch of its long-awaited Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. 3 heavy rocket by one month, to June, to allow more time for prelaunch testing.

A new single-stage, liquid-propellant missile that North Korea tested on May 14 may fall only a little short of the conventional classification of an ICBM.

Turkey’s fighter will be twin-engine, but the choice of a powerplant has not yet been made.

Unmanned aircraft in the news: BNSF flies true BVLOS; Satcom for small UAS; Swift flies over water; Snipe nano-UAS delivered; Indago quadcopter upgraded; Redkite wide-area imagery from small UAS.

Some Wall Street analysts suggest Vought’s insolvency warning might be a ploy to bolster Triumph in negotiations with OEM customers.

A NASA review team has concluded it will be too risky and costly to put a crew on the first flight of the heavy-lift Space Launch System.

An airlock problem forced NASA to ease off plans for a crammed six to seven hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on May 12.

Raytheon has again won the U.S. Air Force's program for a next-generation three-dimensional long-range radar, two years and seven months after an initial award that was protested by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.

Malaysian plans to get used fighter jets and maritime patrollers for its air force are looking doubtful as the service claims ignorance over the deals.

Erwan de Cherisey takes a close look at Cameroon's rapid intervention aviation force.

Officials won't offer date North Korea could marry nuclear warhead with ICBM; administration may expand laptop ban; Trump takes aim at carrier launch system.