Defense

Militants in Iraq and Syria are adapting consumer drones and micro-UAVs for surveillance missions and deadly strikes.

Leonardo tests Gurney flap; Robinson eyes diesel helo; UK extends unmanned helo trials; ArcticShark flies in Oregon.

Strapped for cash to buy Boeing’s new KC-46 tanker in sufficient numbers, the U.S. Air Force is looking instead to outfit its 60-year-old KC-135 Stratotanker.

New photos of the still classified U.S. Air Force’s Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle have emerged from Vandenberg AFB, California.

Lockheed Martin has renamed its new precision-guided Dual Mode Plus bomb “Paragon,” and is eyeing early integration with the F-35A

During a visit to Airbus facilities in Marseille on March 3, French Defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced that the H160 would form the basis of France’s Hélicoptère Interarmées Léger, replacing six different types.

Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightnings could cost about $80 million each if the stealth fighter is ordered in multi-year lots, the manufacturer says.

With a small but significant maneuver earlier this week, NASA’s Maven Mars orbiter avoided a potential collision with Phobos, the larger of the Red Planet’s two moons.

The crash of a vintage Hawker Hunter jet at a British air show in 2015 that killed 11 people was caused by pilot error, UK air accident investigators have concluded.

Buying new aircraft would be cheaper than the plan to keep the bizjet-based T-1A flying.

The 2017 Philip J. Kass Laureate for Heroism goes to the rescue crew of Kenn Borek Air for their South Pole flight to rescue sick workers.

Lockheed Martin's Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile was deemed the Laureate for more than quadrupling the striking distance of U.S. combat aircraft against ships.

Army Cadet Lt. Michael Cremins, Coast Guard 2/c Cadet David Creswell, Navy Midshipman 1st Class Ryan Speir and Air Force Cadet Colonel Young Yuyang Wu honored.

In this week’s Washington Outlook, a jaundiced view of this year’s budget debate, NASA plans to buy more Russian rocket rides and a surge in attempts to carry weapons on to passenger aircraft.

Northrop Grumman has submitted its Gulfstream G550-based proposal for the U.S. Air Force’s J-Stars recap.

It cannot be called a nuclear arms race when one side has not even left the starting block. That is the message of Lt. Gen. Jack Weinstein, the U.S. Air Force’s top nuclear forces officer, saying that the Pentagon’s next-generation submarine, bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile are still in their infancy.

Boeing and Leonardo have formally announced their partnership for the U.S. Air Force UH-1N Huey Replacement Program, offering the latter’s AW139-based “MH-139” produced in Philadelphia.

Indonesia has become the launch customer of the UMS Skeldar vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) V-200 UAV, with the delivery of a single system.

Malaysia is considering buying excess aircraft from Saudi Arabia, though the exact types are still to be determined.

India has test-fired an anti-ship missile from its first homegrown submarine, taking a significant step toward strengthening its undersea naval forces.

Under the €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) deal approved by the German regulators on Feb. 28, KKR has purchased 74.9% of Airbus’ electronics and border security business, which formally began operating under the brand name Hensoldt on the same day.

War crimes in Syria; Australia to buy new Jetwave communications system for transport aircraft; France chooses Leonardo radar for aircraft bound for North Africa; and Raytheon wins massive early-warning radar contract.

Can the U.S. Air Force’s air refueling fleet keep up with the warfighter?

Despite having two aircraft carriers until 1997, the French navy will now have none during an extended renovation and testing period of its only one.

The U.S. Air Force’s last MQ-1 Predator training squadron at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, is shifting to the MQ-9 Reaper as the service bids farewell to the revolutionary UAV it has operated since 1996.