India’s space agency readjusted the orbit of its landmark Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) to avoid the spacecraft experiencing a long-duration eclipse of the Sun that would have drained its solar batteries.
The U.S. Air Force’s once-crowded $16 billion T-X trainer competition is beginning to look more and more like a price shootout between Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
While Lockheed Martin has proved it can successfully deliver aircraft from the production line, the company has yet to show it will have a reliable system in place to support the aircraft on “day two," Norwegian military officials say.
The new U.S. defense secretary has ordered a review of whether an advanced Super Hornet can provide a "competitive, cost-effective, fighter aircraft alternative" to the F-35.
The first V-model Black Hawk took to the air on Jan. 19, following the installation of the Northrop Grumman-designed cockpit by Huntsville, Alabama-based Yulista Aviation.
Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury says the company still has faith in its H225/EC225 heavy helicopter and is determined to restore confidence in the aircraft for the oil and gas community.
Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury has said that 2016 was as difficult a year for the rotary-wing industry as 2008 at the height of the global financial crisis. And it is unlikely to improve this year.
Hope that reduced integration costs will free up funding for more frequent capability upgrades is behind industry’s willingness to embrace open avionics standards and increased competition, says U.S. Air Force.
In this week’s Washington Outlook: the SpaceX CEO makes a third trip to talk with Team Trump, why the idea of a wall in Mexico needs an adjustment and a look back at what happens when rhetoric meets reality.
U.S. State Department approves Foreign Military Sale requests, Saudia Arabia inducts F-15SAs into fleet, Indonesian president wants to see final A400M accident report, and Raytheon wins fourth full-rate production contract for SM-6.
Shark and seal skins, even speed skater’s suits, are inspiring drag-reduction technologies eyed for coating U.S. Air Force transports and tankers to curb jet fuel consumption.
India has rolled out the first indigenously upgraded Hawk Mk132 trainer aircraft, Hawk-i, which will help provide improved situational awareness and training capability.
Sudanese President Omar al Bashir signed several cooperation agreements with King Salman of Saudi Arabia during a brief visit to Riyadh last week, reports ch-aviation.
As the U.S. Air Forces presses ahead with development of a next-generation nuclear missile, a new report says the service must retain the capability of adding multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, or MIRVs, if the strategic balance shifts.
A new $312 million pretax charge against earnings for the U.S. Air Force KC-46A aerial refueling tanker program is not a material concern, prime contractor Boeing’s leaders said Jan. 25.
With Britain set to receive its first of nine Boeing P-8 Poseidons in 2019, it will be the first time the two countries have operated the same maritime patrol aircraft since the 1950s.
