Defense

Launch of the mission has been retargeted for no earlier than 10:35 a.m. EST on Friday, the final day for launch before high Sun angles on the space station trigger a 10-day hiatus in vehicle dockings.

Canada has formally launched its long-awaited fighter competition.

NASA has created the legal and regulatory framework for a group of aerospace industry experts to advise the U.S. National Space Council.

Twenty-five European Union members have agreed to take the first steps toward closer defense and security cooperation within the trading bloc.

Hexcel and Alabama are about to unveil a plan to provide additional polyacrylonitrile precursor and carbon fiber for planned production increases of large commercial aircraft.

The U.S. and Afghan military’s new campaign to strike the Taliban’s support structure from the skies is a gamechanger, according to a top general.

President Donald Trump signed the fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law Dec. 12.

Honeywell has received a supplemental type certification from the FAA to offer synthetic vision in the Primus Elite Advanced Features software upgrade on Bombardier Global Express business jets.

An unmanned glider that could precisely deliver supplies to clandestine forces and then decompose without leaving tell-tale traces has completed initial flights.

India’s state-run space agency is developing a low-cost small launch vehicle for compact satellites that is set to debut in little more than a year.

China has conducted its first crash test to assess the potential for aircraft damage in an airborne collision with a small UAV.

Eyeing North Korea, Japan plans spending on Aegis at sea and on land, radars and improved PAC-3 interceptors and command and control.

An indigenous anti-ballistic missile system and imported radar appear to have survived a South Korean defense ministry review.

Australian defense spending is to grow at an annual average of 5.8% in the nine fiscal years ending in June 2026. Equipment spending will surge 7.8% a year.

Annual foreign sales of arms and military services by U.S.-based companies jumped 4% to $217.2 billion in 2016, according to a well-known Swedish think tank.

North Sea offshore helicopter operators have completed simulator trials of Honeywell’s Mark XXII enhanced ground proximity warning system for helicopters.

NASA’s New Horizons carried out a small course-correction maneuver Dec. 9.

Boeing says it is “focused on the competition, not promotional flights,” having already submitted its T-X proposal in March and the corresponding flight-test data in June.

Experiment results on Europe’s Microscope mini-sat have confirmed a key principle in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, French space agency CNES says.

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) president and CEO, Dr Temel Kotil, is a man on a mission at the show. Alan Warnes discovers why.

New fighter, transports and UAVs are prominently featured in Germany’s defense modernization plans.

After a peak in 2016 and continued deliveries of new gear, economic stagnation is forcing reductions in Moscow’s future equipment purchases.

President Xi’s ambitious goal may become more tangible in 2018, as Chinese UAVs patrol the Pacific and J-20 fighter production picks up.

China tests drone collision; Lindbergh goes eVTOL; Northrop’s EW UAV; Dzyne’s vanishing drone; Russian Post UAV trial

The contract also comes just days after Qatar signed up to purchase 12 additional Dassault Rafales from France adding to the 24 it already has on order as well as the 36 Boeing F-15QA Advanced Eagles being purchased from the United States.