Defense

By Michael Bruno
The Western aerospace & defense sector is likely to be in shock for months to come as it tries to figure out what a Trump administration means.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Defense Conseil International, the French defense ministry’s international training company, is planning to expand its helicopter fleet to meet foreign training demands.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India is progressing toward launching its second lunar exploration mission, Chandrayaan-2, with the start of some ground tests and other events planned in the coming months.
Defense

A Denver-based startup is drawing investor attention with plans for a relatively inexpensive mass-produced spacecraft bus that would use a proprietary “isolation system” to enable its use with any payload in its weight class on any launch vehicle.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Turkey has not only managed to field indigenous armed UAVs but has also sent them into harm’s way.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio, Joe Anselmo, Michael Bruno
On Nov. 8, the U.S. elected Donald Trump its next president, as well as a Republican House and Senate. Aviation Week editors explain how they think those dynamics will shape the nation’s policy and spending choices in the short term and the long run.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A consortium of BAE Systems and other local partners will play a key role in the support of the F-35 in the Pacific region.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Mars One has signed a takeover agreement in which InFin Innovative Finance AG of Switzerland will acquire all shares of Mars One Ventures, PLC, the British arm of the Red Planet colonization venture.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India’s Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) has approved a proposal to buy 83 indigenous Tejas Mk. 1-A Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) for the Indian air force (IAF) at a cost of 500.25 billion rupees ($7.5 billion).
Defense

The Air Force has selected Northrop Grumman to build a beam-control system for a self-defense laser it hopes to deploy on fighters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Earth scientists using NASA spacecraft are turning to small satellites as funding lags for larger platforms.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A consortium of Britain’s Defense Electronics and Components Agency (DECA), BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman has secured a key F-35 maintenance and support contract.
Defense

Study looks for weapon to attack ships and land targets in 2030s. But don’t call it a cruise missile just yet.
Defense

Boeing has received a U.S. Air Force contract worth $478 million to begin full-scale development of a next-generation electronic warfare suite for operational F-15s called the Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivability System.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Scientists have improved ultraviolet measurements of hydrated mineral movement across the Moon’s daytime side with a recent change to operations of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
Singapore has awarded contracts to Airbus Helicopters and Boeing Defense for H225M medium lift and Chinook heavy lift helicopters.
Defense

Esterline CMC Electronics has been awarded a contract by Pilatus for the Royal Jordanian Air Force.
Maintenance & Training

By Marhalim Abas
Indonesia may opt for a third fighter type for entry into service over the next decade as part of its air force modernization program.
Defense

U.S. Air Force aims to save its only nuclear-armed cruise missile from threatened obsolescence.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett, Graham Warwick
A J-20 that performed at Zhuhai may have been a production aircraft, but it also had ill-fitting panels and other features that did not look very stealthy.
Zhuhai

The Sikorsky X2 technology demonstrator that spawned the S-97 Raider and SB-1 Defiant has been retired to the Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
U.S. light helicopter manufacturer Robinson Helicopters says New Zealand’s civil aviation regulatory environment needs to better harmonize with the U.S. if it is to resolve concerns over the safety of its aircraft.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
According to a new report by Govini, the aerospace and defense sector should pay far more attention than usual on down-ballot election campaigns, particularly in congressional districts.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo-Finmeccanica has performed the first flight of an upgraded and navalized Merlin Mk. 4 for Britain’s Royal Navy.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The European Space Agency is investigating the crash of its Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing module on Mars on Oct. 19.
Defense