A full demonstrator engine for the F-3 is due to run in 2018, when the Japanese government should decide whether to go ahead with the indigenous fighter.
Forging an integrated engine company out of the various Chinese government businesses will be a huge managerial challenge. Design institutes and factories are scattered across the country, and Chinese state organizations are jealous of their autonomy.
Separate and independent analysis of surface-temperature measurements on land and at sea around the world revealed 2015 as the warmest year yet since record-keeping started in the 19th century.
India successfully put into orbit its fifth navigation satellite on Jan. 20, inching closer to creating a regional navigation system for supporting terrestrial, aerial and marine systems.
A new Chinese state company expected to be announced late this month is likely to be divided into civil aviation, defense aviation and surface-power divisions, incorporating Avic propulsion subsidiary Avic Engine and other government gas-turbine enterprises.
The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships are going from short-punch vessels to the proving ground for the service’s next surface-launched-over-the-horizon missile.
The U.S. should take several measures that involve increasing American ship, aircraft and missile operations in the Asia-Pacific, according to a recent report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
With an eye toward demonstrating “advanced battery technology,” the U.S. Navy is readying its Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle prototype for an open-ocean solo transit in the Pacific Ocean this year.
The Missile Defense Agency is preparing plans to improve the effectiveness of homeland missile defense by a factor of 12 by the end of the next decade.
Adm. John Richardson, the U.S. chief of naval operations, and his Chinese counterpart, Adm. Wu Shengli, the commander of the People’s Liberation Army Navy commander, have discussed “opportunities” to meet in person later this year.
Germany is preparing to begin a search for a successor to its long-serving fleet of Sikorsky CH-53 Stallion helicopters, and it may not have to look very far.
The Canadian armed forces are working to secure funding for life-extension programs for their fleet of CH-146 Griffon utility helicopters and CH-149 Cormorant search and rescue helicopters.
U.K. defense officials are studying inflight refueling of helicopters in order to meet commitments set out in last year’s Strategic Defense and Security Review (SDSR).
NASA’s First Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars is already influencing the agency’s evolving efforts to reach the Red Planet with astronauts in two decades.
A Russo-Chinese cooperative program for an unusually large helicopter should move into full-scale development, with an agreement due to be signed this year.
While avoiding a direct reply to a December memo by U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter questioning the Navy’s reliance of presence over posture, service Secretary Ray Mabus says there is little differentiating between the two for those under his charge.
A multinational study to upgrade the Airbus Tiger attack helicopter will focus on the use of a common precision-guided missile to be used by the four operating nations.
U.S. Navy Southwest Regional Maintenance Center divers have successfully completed the replacement of a damaged control pitch propeller blade and the “grooming” of another blade on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer DDG 106 USS Stockdale.
Russian Helicopters sees Avic as eager to begin a second Russo-Chinese cooperative helicopter production program, under which the small Mil Mi-34 would be built in China for the local market.
For the first time, India’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas flew over foreign airspace to participate in the upcoming Bahrain Airshow, as the country prepares to showcase the indigenous fighter aircraft for international customers.
ARLINGTON, Virginia — Raytheon recently completed the first full array for its AN/SPY- 6(V) Air And Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) in 140 days. the company says.
Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) believes its Dream Chaser vehicle’s capability and the billions it will earn delivering supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) will allow the company to complete development of a human-rated version.
NASA abruptly halted a planned 6 1/2-hr. spacewalk outside the International Space Station by U.S. and U.K. astronauts Tim Kopra and Tim Peake on Jan. 15 when water appeared in the helmet of Kopra’s NASA spacesuit.
