The French government is making a last-ditch effort to get Malaysia to order Dassault Rafales ahead of a planned visit by its president to the Southeast Asian nation.
A defense law directs the Indonesian air force to prefer Airbus H225Ms, fitted out in the country, even though it wants AW101s. An A400M order is awaiting a report on a 2015 crash.
The U.S. Air Force is looking for light-attack aircraft for its OA-X program, and two turboprops seem to be in the lead, though many more are in the running.
Planetary scientists gathered March 19 for a "town hall” to discuss the proposed science objectives of a NASA-led robotic lander mission to search for life on the Jupiter moon Europa.
Britain’s plan to reinstitute a carrier-based strike capability faces potential delays and capability limitations, the independent National Audit Office has warned.
Australia’s planned force of armed drones are probably intended for expeditionary operations; Canberra does not seem to think propeller-driven UAVs would have a large role for the defense of the country.
The ninth Boeing-built Wideband Global Satcom jam-resistant military communications satellite has successfully launched aboard a Delta IV rocket on March 18.
SpaceX's 10th NASA-contracted International Space Station Dragon resupply capsule re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on March 19, descending by parachute to a Pacific Ocean splashdown and recovery.
If the U.S. Air Force chooses to move forward with the buy, the service could use fiscal 2016 and 2017 dollars to field the notional fleet very quickly.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) says recent delays in releasing the request for proposals for the U.S. Air Force's Huey Replacement program are “such a disappointment” and further delay would be “irresponsible” considering the importance of the mission.
Vancouver-based space startup UrtheCast is to receive C$17.6 million ($13.2 million) in Canadian government support for development of the planned OptiSAR constellation.
The Trump administration’s fiscal 2017 supplemental budget, known in Washington as the “hard-power” skinny budget, would add billions of dollars to the U.S. Army’s aircraft and missile procurement accounts, providing new money for helicopters, UAVs, missiles and interceptors.
Lockheed Martin is eyeing new U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force opportunities for high-power laser systems after demonstrating a 60-kw-class laser for delivery to the Army in the next few months.
Low-cost UAVs that can be launched in volleys to cooperate with each other and with manned aircraft, then be retrieved in midair and reused, have moved a step closer to becoming reality.
A five-year development effort led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory could soon produce one of the coldest places in the known universe, a man-made high-tech lab aboard the U.S. segment of the International Space Station.
