Defense

Step by step, Silicon Valley-based Made In Space, Inc., is making good on its name, literally forging an off-the-planet manufacturing capability.

Keeping warships for only 20 years rather than the usual 30 may be an economical policy, Australian researchers have found.

Trump pledges to appoint two reform-minded bank board members.

The Raytheon-made Tomahawk is still the Pentagon’s weapon of choice, but the U.S. Navy has long wanted to stop building new ones in favor of developing a next-generation cruise missile.

Hypersonic developments in China and Russia suggest the U.S. could easily lose its lead.

Timeline shows key dates in Tomahawk cruise missile's history, including program milestones and uses in battle.

The UK defense ministry is challenging industry and academia to develop unmanned systems that can supply troops on the front-line.

A U.S. Special Operations MC-130 dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. has ever deployed on Islamic State terrorists in a series of caves in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon’s Tomahawk strike on Syria may have struck 57 out of 59 confirmed targets, but a top U.S. general says the U.S. can and must do better.

In Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, a funding drive is underway to restore the aging landmark Apollo Mission Control Center for enhanced public viewing.

With the delivery by Leonardo of the 500th Eurofighter Typhoon to the Italian Air Force, production of the multinational combat aircraft is now entering its twilight years.

Airbus Helicopters and Romanian aerospace firm Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR) have signed an exclusivity agreement on local sales of the H215M.

Lobbying group Gifas is concerned that a notable proportion of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the French aerospace industry are posting losses.

India is looking to aggressively market its homemade Tejas light combat aircraft and the upgraded Advanced Hawk trainers it builds with BAE Systems to international buyers.

The Army is crunching data to prove whether the Lakota is delivering a better aviator.

Aurora Flight Sciences’ long-endurance Orion UAV is hoping to transition from tech demonstration to deployed military system.

Canada Halts CH-148 Flights, Leonardo beefs up the light-attack version of its M-346, Rostec plans to upgrade Russian Iskander missiles and India is developing lightweight torpedoes for export.

Skunk Works conducts flight tests to show how autonomous technology can enable unmanned aircraft to make manned fighters more effective in hostile environments.

Lakota is taking over the training role as the U.S. Army’s single-engine helicopters exit inventory.

Bell Helicopter’s FC-X mockup concept demonstrator is proving to be more than just a talking point.

German startup E-volo has unveiled the Volocopter 2X production version of its two-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) air taxi.

The planned structural modifications will extend the service life of up to 300 F-16 C/D Block 40-52 aircraft from 8,000 to 12,000 flight hours.

Canada halted flights on its CH-148 Cyclones after one of the Sikorsky helicopters experienced a change in its descent rate during a training flight.

NASA has resumed subscale flight tests of a flying-wing aircraft being developed to potentially fly in the atmosphere of Mars.

India this month could finally move forward on a $5.8 billion contract for 800 very short range air defense (Vshorad) systems for the Indian Army.