Defense

The U.S. Defense Department plans to end its reliance on Russian helicopters to support the Afghan army.

Airbus has completed deliveries of 15 H135s for Boeing’s Australian military helicopter training program.

Facebook is preparing to fly its Aquila stratospheric unmanned aircraft for a second time as the NTSB investigates the structural failure that occurred when the aircraft encountered turbulence just before landing on its June 28 first flight.

The Swedish defense ministry has reintroduced the ground-launched version of Saab’s RBS-15 anti-ship missile because of Russia’s increased activity in the Baltic Sea.

Company offers to make an advanced version of its Super Hornet in India for its air force and export customers.

The F-15 and F/A-18 production lines could extend into the early-2020s with fleet-size orders from Qatar and Kuwait.

There is renewed focus on Tranche 1 Eurofighters as air forces look at how to keep them in service for the long-haul.

Surveying the Navy’s diverse new weapons portfolio, from the LRASM anti-ship cruise missile to extended-range versions of Harpoon and JSOW.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is just beginning to form his team. What will it mean for aerospace, aviation, NASA, trade and the economy?

The U.S. Navy’s long-running quest for an unmanned maritime patrol aircraft is entering its final stages.

Operators are finding that Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II is fundamentally changing the way the U.S. Marine Corps thinks about operating from amphibious assault ships.

Lockheed Martin has snagged a $1.2 billion contract to upgrade 134 F-16 fighters for the Republic of Korea Air Force to the advanced F-16V configuration equipped with Northrop Grumman’s advanced electronically scanned array (AESA) radar.

Orbital ATK’s sixth NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply mission spacecraft departed the International Space Station early Nov. 21 to carry out a set of post-ISS objectives over the next six days.

Astronomer and former NASA Ames Research Center Director Pete Warden is floating a proposed commercially and internationally backed near-term human flyby of Venus and Mars.

The International Space Station has been restored to six-person operations for the first time since late October.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden gave his agency high marks Nov. 19 as he watched from Mission Control Moscow as friend and fellow astronaut Peggy Whitson reached the International Space Station

Embraer has recently received the Provisional Type Certificate for the KC-390 Basic Vehicle.

As the U.S. Marine Corps prepares to deploy the F-35B to Iwakuni, Japan, in January, pilots put the fifth-generation fighter to the test in a carrier proof of concept demonstration aboard the USS America Nov. 18-20.

Britain’s Chinook Digital Automatic Flight Control System upgrade will bring the oldest of Chinooks to the capability of its newest.

Donald Trump’s election to the White House means change is coming to the A&D world, but practically no one—maybe not even the president-elect—knows exactly what those changes will be.

President-Elect Donald Trump retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flyn to be his National Security Adviser.

Repairs are complete on the last of 13 U.S. F-35As affected by a cooling lines issue, and all have returned to normal flying operations.

Aircraft from VFA-147 “Argonauts” should embark on the USS Carl Vinson in 2021.

Thanks to the Nov. 17 launch by an Ariane 5 rocket of four Galileo satellites, the European space industry has further built confidence in its ability to progress toward more autonomy, despite glitches onboard previously launched Galileo spacecraft.

The crew set a duration record for Chinese human spaceflight.