Boeing began the Farnborough International Airshow July 11 by securing nearly £5 billion ($6.47 billion) in contracts from the British government for P-8 Poseidon maritime patrollers and Apache attack helicopters.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has bested six well-resourced rivals to win the U.S. Air Force’s highly sought-after Low-Cost Attritable Strike Unmanned Aerial System technology demonstration program.
Leonardo-Finmeccanica has been selected to supply two Beechcraft King Air 350ER aircraft, including their mission systems and sensor load-outs, for an unnamed African customer.
The U.S. Air Force is on the verge of declaring its F-35 Joint Strike Fighters operational after resolving a software bug that caused the jets’ systems to stall out mid-flight and have to be rebooted.
Bell’s new CEO Mitch Snyder has declared innovation as his top priority, as the company works to re-position itself in the challenging rotary-wing market.
The Indian Air Force, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization and Israel Aerospace Industries have recently tested the latest medium-range surface-air missile air and missile defense system, a member of the Barak 8 air defense weapon system.
The tide may be turning for Boeing’s KC-46 tanker program, with Pentagon and industry leaders showing signs they are encouraged by early testing of the company’s fix to a major hardware problem.
GE and the U.S. Air Force are conducting advanced compressor and fan rig testing that could lead to a follow-on development and test regime of full three-stream, adaptive combat engines.
Airbus flies electric ECS; Safran’s high power-density diesel; can digital chemistry grow UAVs?; IAI’s Bigger Role in Clean Sky 2; ultracapacitor energy storage for cargo airship.
The new chief of the U.S. Air Force admonished Boeing for the latest KC-46 tanker schedule slip, telling reporters in his first press conference that he is “concerned and disappointed” about the delay in delivering a sorely needed capability to the fleet.
Canada is reaching out to fighter aircraft manufacturers and other nations such as Denmark, France, Germany and Sweden to figure out the best way to replace its 34-year-old CF-18 fighter fleet.
Israel Aerospace Industries and Elta are well placed to fill a Japanese requirement for up to eight unmanned surveillance aircraft that would economically complement the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk.
In his first press conference July 8, the new U.S. Air Force chief of staff offered the clearest argument yet for keeping the cost to build the service’s next-generation bomber under wraps.
The U.S. Air Force’s chief of information dominance says contractors and their suppliers are being held to a “higher standard” in cybersecurity as digitally dependent weapons like the Northrop Grumman B-21 bomber enter development.
Pratt snagged a $1.5 billion deal for the tenth batch of F135 propulsion systems, bringing the total low-rate initial production (LRIP) lot 10 contract value to $1.95 billion overall.
India’s Tejas light fighter is late, does not meet requirements, but it is affordable. Planned upgrades could make it a capable machine—given a few more years.
As the F-35 makes its debut in the U.K. this week, a top U.S. Air Force general says there are no major hurdles to declaring the F-35A operational close to its target date of Aug. 1.
Euroconsult says around 200 organizations built a smallsat between 2006 and 2015, and the coming decade will show a similar pattern, with the results about to be evident in orbit.
The Certifiable Predator B has been designed and developed with airspace rules and compliance in mind, and is expected to meet NATO’s unmanned air vehicle airworthiness requirements.
