Having failed to find commercial customers for its new Mil Mi-38 heavy transport rotorcraft, Russian Helicopters turned to its major client—the Russian military.
In this week's defense roundup: Belarus testing weaponized UAV, Antonov to fly light airlifter before 2017, NRO focuses on ground systems and algorithms, and Indonesia test flies first of five retrofitted C-130Bs.
NASA faces the prospect of delays to all three of the next non-Russian resupply missions scheduled to fly to ISS following Orbital ATK’s acknowledgment that the initial launch of its upgraded Antares rocket has slipped from this month to October.
New data supports a model for the Moon’s formation involving a very high-energy collision between the Earth and another large planetary body 4.5 billion years ago.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says he expects his air transport OEM to show a book-to-bill ratio of new orders to deliveries of “around 1” when final 2016 financial results are provided next year.
Israel’s AirMule ducted-fan unmanned transport aircraft may have morphed into the Cormorant to comply with restrictions on exporting technology that could be used in cruise missiles, but prototype testing continues toward the target of completing development by the end of 2020.
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II directed a Raytheon Standard Missile-6 interceptor against an MQM-107 Streaker subscale aerial target drone in a live-fire demo.
Networking with the rest of the Australian Defense Force will be a crucial requirement for aircraft that replace the country’s 22 Airbus Tiger attack helicopters.
Britain’s Straightline Aviation, the launch customer for Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 hybrid airship, is investigating delivering health services from the aircraft.
Video footage from the HUD of a U.S. Air Force F-16 records the dramatic moment when its unconscious pilot is saved from certain death by the aircraft’s Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System.
Airbus Defense and Space has flown the second Eurofighter Typhoon to be used for testing of the Euroradar Captor-E active electronically scanned array radar.
First flight of a new Blue Origin human-rated orbital launch vehicle is due from the Seattle-based company’s new launch facility at Cape Canaveral by the end of the decade.
Darpa Deputy Director Steven Walker says the U.S. should “stick with the current plan” for hypersonic missile development, with flight tests planned for 2019.
