Defense

The British people have spoken, and their decision has caused reverberations around the world. The U.K.'s aerospace sector is the largest in Europe and second largest in the world. What does the Brexit vote mean for the future of the sector?

By Angus Batey
More than 100 British companies are lending engineering and manufacturing expertise to the multinational F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Never an agency to be deterred by past failure, DARPA las launched another attempt to demonstrate a turbine-based combined-cycle engine capable of powering an aircraft from zero airspeed to Mach 6 and back.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
BrahMos flies from a Sukhoi fighter; Russia to receive modernized Buk missile system; Indonesia, Malaysia ground Super Puma helos; U.S. Navy tests new radar with manned/unmanned teaming.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A trio of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters has touched down on British soil, two years after a fleet-wide grounding prompted by an engine fire foiled plans for the aircraft’s international debut in the U.K.
Defense

By Angus Batey
Unexpected effects of undercarriage on aircraft balance were the reason for the slow start in testing the F-35B’s “ski-jump” takeoff capability.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Higher-than-anticipated concentrations of manganese oxides in rock veins studied by NASA’s Curiosity rover in the more than 3.5-billion-year-old Gale Crater on Mars point to an ancient Red Planet environment with higher concentrations of atmospheric oxygen.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Citing advances in modeling and manufacturing, Darpa is to try again to demonstrate a turbine-based combined-cycle (TBCC) engine that can operate from zero airspeed to beyond Mach 5, to power future air-breathing reusable hypersonic vehicles.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Norwegian investigators believe metal fatigue is now the most likely cause of a fatal offshore helicopter crash in April.
Business Aviation

The U.S. Marine Corps is set to get its second F-35B squadron this week as the service prepares the fifth-generation fighter jet for its first overseas deployment next year.
Defense

With a decision expected soon from an international tribunal on a South China Sea territorial dispute between China and the Philippines, regional security analysts warn the likely ruling against Chinese interests could prompt the Asian giant to try to take even greater control of the skies in the area.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The importance of combat aircraft within European air arms has increased in light of Russia’s aggressive stance in Ukraine and elsewhere. Over the next decade, the majority of Europe’s air arms will be reequipped or be beginning the process.
Farnborough Airshow

By Tony Osborne
Across Europe, NATO air arms are preparing or paving the way for new fighter jets.
Defense

By Byron Callan
Initial post-Brexit stock reactions suggest investors view U.S. and some European defense issues as safe havens.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Tanker problems are holding up the long-awaited transatlantic deployment of British and U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs in time for their debut at two major U.K. air shows.
Defense

The hot-fire test of a chilled-down solid-fuel rocket motor for NASA’s planned heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) on June 28 moved the big human-rated rocket a step closer to its first flight in 2018.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Honeywell International made its expected CEO transition plan official late June 28, announcing newly installed President and Chief Operating Officer Darius Adamczyk will succeed current chief executive Dave Cote on March 31, 2017.
Defense

By Jay Menon
An Indian air force (IAF) Su-30MKI has flown for the first time carrying the 2,500-kg (5,500-lb.) Indo-Russian BrahMos supersonic missile.
Defense

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The Russian armed forces will receive the first brigade of the new Buk-M3 medium-range surface-to-air missile system this year, says Yan Novikov, CEO of Almaz Antey, the system’s manufacturer.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Dscovr, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s inaugural space weather satellite, is prepared to become an operational solar sentry on July 27.
Defense

The U.S. Navy has no choice but to operate in a world where more countries are getting access to anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs), says Adm. John Richardson, chief of naval operations.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The June 2015 launch failure of SpaceX’s seventh NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station has jeopardized agency ISS program plans to equip the six-person orbiting research laboratory with two docking adaptors for future U.S. commercial crew capsules prior to the first test flight now planned for May 2017, NASA's IG says.
Defense

Trustees of The Aerospace Corporation picked Steve Isakowitz as president and CEO of the non-profit corporation which operates a federally funded research and development center in El Segundo, California, that advises the Air Force, NASA and other government agencies on aerospace technology.
Defense

The first article in a series, this is a primer on stealth technology, review of the radar cross-sections of fighter aircraft and analysis of how the differences affect detection ranges against state-of-the-art threat radars.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Boeing has tested an approach to active helicopter rotors it says avoids the performance-sapping drawbacks of previous designs.
Aerospace