The next possible addition to Seoul’s defense against North Korean ballistic missiles could involve equipping destroyers with Raytheon SM-3 interceptors.
If the Pentagon is forced to operate under a stopgap spending measure for an extended period, funding for Northrop Grumman to engineer and develop the B-21 will be capped at fiscal 2016 levels.
As the Pentagon considers pulling the plug on Raytheon’s troubled GPS ground-control system, the company says it is focused on completing key milestones and controlling cost by staying on schedule.
Orbital ATK and NASA have delayed the first flight of the company’s re-engined Antares launch vehicle until late September to accommodate traffic at the International Space Station and give engineers more time to prepare.
Embraer plans to reduce its workforce through a “voluntary dismissal program” for employees in Brazil in light of a challenging global aerospace environment.
Instead of the ammo work being a breakeven project for Orbital as expected, the company has since learned it will lead to a $400 million operating loss.
The German army has increased the availability of its Tiger combat helicopters, which could be deployed in support of United Nations operations in Mali.
The Kuwaiti government has thrown Airbus Helicopters’ troubled H225 helicopter an urgently needed lifeline by purchasing 30 military versions of the aircraft.
While the U.S. Marine Corps is starting to see overall improvement in aircraft readiness, the service still has quite a bit to work to do across the spectrum of its aviation programs, according to Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller.
U.S. Navy pilots got the chance to practice sling-load external lifting operations with MH-53 Sea Dragons during recent exercises at Fort Drum, New York.
Boeing has been awarded a $60.8 million U.S. Navy contract to bring the Increment 3 Block 2 capabilities of the P-8A Poseidon Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft through preliminary and critical design review.
Lockheed Martin sees the follow-on as a potential opening for its Dual Mode Plus tail kit in the dual-model bomb market dominated by Boeing’s Laser JDAM.
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) Hürkuş tandem two-seat trainer has completed all flight testing and obtained Type Certificate (TC) from the Turkish Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) with its validation certificate from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
Government-to-government deals, more rigorous setting of requirements and a renewed emphasis on indigenous production feature in Indonesia’s new defense acquisition policy.
A new assessment of nearly 4,300 exoplanet candidates detected using NASA’s Kepler space observatory has produced 20 Earthlike terrestrial planets orbiting their host stars within the so-called “habitable zone."
The first two Compass Call aircraft outfitted with glass cockpits under the $45 million Avionics Viability Program (AVP) have returned to Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona after modification.
Argentina’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer, Fábrica Argentina de Aviones (FAdeA), has completed the first flight of its IA-100 indigenously produced composite training aircraft
Magic Carpet is a set of software changes to the aircraft’s integrated controls to use the F/A-18’s angle of attack to help ensure the proper glidepath and provide a steadier aircraft controlled by relatively small and quick wing adjustments.
Malaysian maintenance firm Airod has completed a program of maintenance on its first Lockheed Martin KC-130J Hercules aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps.
Japan has issued standing orders to its armed forces to shoot down foreign missiles, five days after the country was caught unaware by the closest impact so far of a North Korean ballistic weapon.
