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By Mark Carreau
Roscosmos, the Russian state corporation for space activities, has formally rescheduled the launch of its first Modified Soyuz with three new International Space Station crewmembers from June 24 to July 7 to accommodate additional software testing.
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By Maksim Pyadushkin
Russian jet maker Irkut Corp. on June 7 showed the first Yak-152 light piston engine trainer prototypes being assembled at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant in East Siberia.
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By Tony Osborne
U.K. light aircraft manufacturer e-Go Aeroplanes has handed over its first serial aircraft, marking the formal start of production of its e-Go ultralight.
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There is nothing wrong or underhanded about the private discussion between Defense Secretary Ash Carter and SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk scheduled for June 7, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook says.
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The first U.S. Army heavy attack reconnaissance squadron to deploy operationally with teams of Boeing AH-64 Apaches and Textron Systems RQ-7Bv2 Shadow unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has returned home from Iraq.
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By Guy Norris
HARTFORD, Conn.—UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) stated that its focus on increasingly more-electric, intelligent and integrated aircraft systems will help drive a 6% annual compounded growth rate through 2020.
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By Jay Menon
India has signed the Hague Code of Conduct (HCoC) against ballistic missile proliferation.
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By Tony Osborne
Germany could be the last partner-nation operator of the Tornado after 2025.
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U.S. nuclear forces still anchor their global defensive posture with the traditional triad of land-based ICBMs, strategic bombers and nuclear missile submarines, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) says.
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By Michael Bruno
United Technologies will ramp up efforts to cut costs from its supply chain as one of the pillars to delivering financial and customer performance in coming years, CEO and President Greg Hayes told reporters June 6.
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By Mark Carreau
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and a Russian cosmonaut floated into the Bigelow Expandable Activities Module (BEAM) early June 6, initiating a two-year evaluation of the human-rated, reinforced-fabric prototype habitat.
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The recent midair collision between two F/A-18F Super Hornets is the costliest mishap for the U.S. Navy so far this fiscal decade, and combined with the fatal F/A-18C Hornet Blue Angels crash earlier this month puts the Navy on pace for its most expensive year for incidents during that time, an Aviation Week analysis of Navy Safety Center record shows.
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The fatal June 3 mishap involving an F/A-18C Hornet underscore the rarity of such incidents for the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron, which excels in making some of the riskiest aerial maneuvers in the safest manner.
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By Bradley Perrett
China plans to develop airlifters comparable with the Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy or even Antonov An-225 Mriya, the China Daily says, giving no time frame.
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As U.S. Navy jet pilots keep reporting breathing-related problems, finding fixes for the episodes remains a priority for service aviation leaders.
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By Jay Menon
India is planning to buy an aircraft to conduct weather forecasting and climate research, a senior government official says.
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By Bradley Perrett
The South Korean government and key aerospace companies have made the low-risk choice of the Safran Arriel 2 as the engine for the LCH-LAH civil and military helicopter family under development by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI).
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By Graham Warwick
Live flight testing for the five finalists will be held August 8-12 at Marine Corps Base Quantico, south of Washington.
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The U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft and American ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems are helping stitch together a security net for the U.S. and its allies in the Asia-Pacific region, Defense Secretary Ash Carter says.
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By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky’s entry into Darpa’s VTOL X-Plane competition may not have been selected, but the company sees missions for an unmanned aircraft that can operate from small-deck warships with high speed and long range.
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By Tony Osborne
The decision by offshore helicopter operator CHC to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection will impact other industry players, Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury says.
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By Tony Osborne
Airbus Defense and Space’s electronics and border security (EBS) business will be relaunched under the new brand name Hensoldt in 2017.
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Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) and its branch clinics are helping aircraft pilots cut down on the noise and still communicate as needed.
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Naval Sea Systems Command Expeditionary Missions Program Office, Visual Augmentation Systems program recently began to transition Wide Field of View night vision goggles to the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command warfighters, Navy officials say.
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Charles Beaudouin, head of the French army’s procurement arm STAT, focuses on getting what soldiers need when they need it, and not waiting until the technology is most advanced.
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