With deliveries of all three new trainer types ordered after a major revamp of its flying training system now under way, the Royal Saudi Air Force is entering a new era in which its student pilots will experience an advanced, all-digital cockpit environment before reaching the frontline. Jon Lake reports.
The most important thing the next president can do for defense policy is revivify the debate over fiscal policy and resolve it before submitting a 2018 budget.
In this week’s roundup: the U.S. reports $33 billion in foreign sales; Indian council recommends the purchase of 83 more Tejas combat aircraft; Boeing wins electronic warfare upgrade contract; and Indonesia considers Gripen and F-16 fighters.
An Ariane 5 launcher is scheduled to propel four Galileo satellites into orbit on Nov. 17, marking the first-ever quadruple launch for the navigation constellation.
Defense Conseil International, the French defense ministry’s international training company, is planning to expand its helicopter fleet to meet foreign training demands.
India is progressing toward launching its second lunar exploration mission, Chandrayaan-2, with the start of some ground tests and other events planned in the coming months.
A Denver-based startup is drawing investor attention with plans for a relatively inexpensive mass-produced spacecraft bus that would use a proprietary “isolation system” to enable its use with any payload in its weight class on any launch vehicle.
On Nov. 8, the U.S. elected Donald Trump its next president, as well as a Republican House and Senate. Aviation Week editors explain how they think those dynamics will shape the nation’s policy and spending choices in the short term and the long run.
Mars One has signed a takeover agreement in which InFin Innovative Finance AG of Switzerland will acquire all shares of Mars One Ventures, PLC, the British arm of the Red Planet colonization venture.
India’s Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) has approved a proposal to buy 83 indigenous Tejas Mk. 1-A Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) for the Indian air force (IAF) at a cost of 500.25 billion rupees ($7.5 billion).
A consortium of Britain’s Defense Electronics and Components Agency (DECA), BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman has secured a key F-35 maintenance and support contract.
Boeing has received a U.S. Air Force contract worth $478 million to begin full-scale development of a next-generation electronic warfare suite for operational F-15s called the Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivability System.
Scientists have improved ultraviolet measurements of hydrated mineral movement across the Moon’s daytime side with a recent change to operations of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument.
