Defense

India’s Light Combat Aircraft demonstrates missile integration, Israel’s Air Force replaces Sea Scan patrol aircraft with Heron UAVs, a longer-range loitering UAV, and U.S. approves more Patriot missiles for UAE.

Leanne Caret, president of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, discusses the revival of fighter programs, the state of play on the KC-46A tanker, the importance of T-X and more.

Don’t count on a big defense spending increase this year; report finds SLS NASA’s deadline rush cost millions, and the fight over air traffic control continues.

Honeywell on May 17 unveiled a roughly $100 million corporate venture capital (CVC) effort to invest in early stage, high-growth technology companies that match the Tier 1 provider’s portfolio and software ambitions.

Europe's space launch industry will roll out a new name at the upcoming Paris Air Show to cap a consolidation that started in 2014.

The Philippines has yet again reissued a request for tenders for six light attack aircraft it has been seeking since 2012.

Japan’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are accepting proposals from the international scientific community for analysis of tiny samples of the asteroid Itokawa.

SuperJet International's Board of Directors has appointed Stefano Marazzani new chief executive officer of SuperJet International.

Boeing is forging ahead with KC-46 Pegasus FAA airworthiness certification in the hopes of getting the aircraft certified for delivery to the U.S. Air Force by year’s end.

NATO has launched a study into next-generation rotorcraft capabilities that could replace the alliance’s helicopter fleets by around 2040.

The U.S. Army and Marine Corps are developing requirements for an unmanned aircraft able to carry 300-800 lb. of cargo 20-100 km (12-60 mi.) to lighten the load carried by soldiers.

Boeing is studying a tailsitting vertical-takeoff-and-landing design for the U.S. Marine Corps’ emerging MUX requirement for a long-range, long-endurance expeditionary unmanned aircraft.

Space start-up Rocket Lab is gearing up for the first test flight of its Electron launch vehicle during a 10-day launch window opening May 17.

Japanese acquisition of at least two Lockheed Martin Aegis Ashore installations for ballistic-missile defense looks increasingly likely.

Piasecki Aircraft is pursuing a modular multimission vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle for the U.S. Marine Corps’ emerging MUX expeditionary unmanned aircraft requirement.

India’s Tejas Light Combat Aircraft has successfully test-fired a Derby air-to-air Beyond Visual Range missile, a major step toward the aircraft’s Final Operational Clearance.

The six-metric-ton T625 is the result of Turkish program launched in 2013 to locally produce a rotorcraft that could replace hundreds of aging UH-1 Hueys.

Marine Corps is touting the stealthy JSF in training exercises in Japan, South Korea, and Alaska.

Nineteen months after the U.S. Air Force banned lightweight pilots from flying the F-35, the service is lifting the restriction.

Boeing will build its next-generation T-X training aircraft in St. Louis, where it already completes assembly and checkout of the F/A-18 and F-15.

Italian investigators probing the fatal crash of the second prototype AW609 commercial tiltrotor have concluded that faulty logic within the aircraft’s flight control system ultimately led to the accident.

Amid heightened tensions with China and North Korea, the U.S. Marine Corps is showcasing the F-35B’s warfighting capabilities in exercises around the Pacific Rim.

The U.S. Air Force has settled on Textron’s Scorpion jet and AT-6 Wolverine turboprop, along with Sierra Nevada and Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano, to face off in a light attack demonstration this summer.

The U.S. Air Force has settled on Textron’s Scorpion jet and AT-6 Wolverine turboprop, along with Sierra Nevada and Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano, to face off in a light attack demonstration this summer.

The United Arab Emirates has requested up to 160 new Patriot missiles built by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon in a deal worth up to $2 billion if finalized.