Defense

In 2017, expect military UAS testing and deployment efforts in countries beyond the U.S. and Israel.

After a challenging year for the U.S. Air Force’s new tanker, Boeing expects to begin fuel deliveries to fighters in August.

The Pentagon budget may grow under Trump, but major defense acquisition programs could come in the form of infrastructure spending and fiscal stimulus.

n 140 characters, President-elect Donald Trump has registered U.S. interest in re-entering a Cold War-style nuclear buildup to counterbalance Russia, tweeting that the U.S. must “greatly strengthen and expand” its strategic arsenal.

The U.S. State Department has approved a potential Foreign Military Sale of Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft for Norway.

An Ariane 5 ECA launched two satellites into geostationary transfer orbit from Europe’s Kourou.

Bell Helicopter and Sikorsky/Boeing could usher in a new era for military rotorcraft in 2017 when they fly their competing V-280 Valor and SB-1 Defiant technology demonstrators.

Field Aviation has partnered with a Turkish corporation to develop a new special mission aircraft platform based on the Bombardier Challenger 605 business jet.

Aerospace & Defense 2017 is the latest version of our annual predictor of trends to watch across all the fields we cover. With that issue in the bag, we talk with our top editors about what to look for in 2017.

Pentagon faces decisions on critical and complex military space systems as the commercial satellite communications market continues to evolve.

Growing size and diversity of the commercial drone market begins to attract established unmanned-aircraft manufacturers, while military market grows ever more international.

In this week’s roundup: Italy receives Conformal Airborne Early Warning aircraft; Northrop adds refueling capability to E-2D Hawkeye; Antonov rolls out An-132 prototype and Bulgaria is in the market for secondhand fighters.

The U.S. Navy is preparing for possible cancellation of the new system planned to catch incoming aircraft on its next-generation of Gerald R. Ford-class carriers after costs for General Atomics’ Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) more than doubled since 2009.

British defense firm QinetiQ has purchased the target drone manufacturing business of Meggitt for £57.5 million ($71.04 million).

Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands have inked a treaty that allows the joint air policing of all three nations’ airspace.

The Russian navy has received its first modernized Kamov Ka-27M antisubmarine warfare helicopter, manufacturer Russian Helicopters says.

A Lockheed Martin C130J Hercules aircraft, operated by the Royal Air Force and commissioned by DFID, successfully conducted a technical flight at St Helena Airport on Sunday.

Boeing touts $10 billion in cost avoidance by replacing the B-52’s TF33s with eight regional jet-class engines.

Where does the world's most expensive weapon system stand as it heads into 2017?

UK-based satellite operator Inmarsat and the European Space Agency have completed a first series of test flights for Iris Precursor, a project aimed at improving air traffic management over European airspace through satellite-based datalink communications.

If it did jump into the race, Textron would be the sixth entrant in an already heated battle to produce 350 or more high-performance trainers.

Boeing’s next-generation T-X took off for the first time Dec. 20, making its milestone first flight just weeks before the U.S. Air Force expects to formally kick off the competition for a new trainer fleet.

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries intends to complete the expansion of its recently introduced BlackSky global intelligence platform by the end of the decade.

A Japanese spacecraft designed to study the interaction of solar storms and Earth’s magnetic field is functioning as planned after launch early Tuesday on an Epsilon launch vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center.

India has plans to launch up to 2,500 small satellites in the next five years to cater to burgeoning space requirements.