The Peruvian air force (FAP) is to purchase as many as six Lockheed C-130Js and up to eight more Finmeccanica C-27J Spartans by 2021 as part of a radical overhaul of its air transport fleet.
The latest in a series of test satellites that has advanced the art of space-based navigation is being planned by the U.S. Air Force in a bid to make GPS more resilient in contested environments.
South Korea’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for development of a multi-band radar-absorbing structure for a mockup of an unmanned strike aircraft that has been proposed for service beginning in 2030.
The U.K. Royal Air Force has tested Finmeccanica’s BriteCloud miniaturized expendable active decoy in formal tests against a range of threat emitters during exercises in the U.S.
In partnership with the Tunisian Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA), the USAID-financed Business Reform & Competitiveness Project (BRCP) sponsored a pioneering webinar to bring together Supplier Management representatives from Boeing Defense, Space & Security and Tunisian aerospace manufacturers.
Industry is being asked for recommendations on how to demonstrate the U.S. Air Force’s Loyal Wingman concept for manned/unmanned teaming of fighters, and which aircraft to use for tests.
After years of shunning aerospace as too slow and too expensive, venture capitalists are suddenly interested—and investing. Meanwhile, big aerospace corporations and the U.S. Defense Department are looking to bring “disruptive” commercial thinking in house. Executive Editor Jim Asker, Senior Business Editor Michael Bruno and Graham Warwick, the managing editor for technology, discuss whether the two cultures can ever mix.
India-Russia team up on helo sustainment; sale of P-8s to U.K. advances; Lockheed receives F-35 modernization modification; and Space Fence opens test facility.
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Lockheed Martin expects a green light from the country’s Defense Program Execution Committee later this year, which would result in requests for proposals and information during 2017.
Israel’s Rafael is finalizing an upgrade for the Colombian air force’s UH-60L Black Hawks that will allow them to fire the family of Spike air-to-ground missiles.
Britain may look at sending aircraft to the multi-national Cruzex exercise in Brazil, Air Marshal Greg Bagwell, deputy commander of operations, told journalists at the Fidae air show here March 30.
Russia’s Progress 61 resupply capsule departed the International Space Station early March 30, clearing the aft docking port of the Zvezda service module for the arrival of the Progress 63 freighter later this week.
A biofuels pilot plant to be built in Queensland by Australia’s Southern Oil Refining will supply fuels for the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy and could lead to a commercial-scale production facility that would also produce aviation biofuels for airlines.
Bulgaria’s government has approved a plan to replace its armed forces’ Soviet-era equipment with modern combat aircraft and new multipurpose patrol boats.
An independent analysis of the latest UAV sighting reports released by the FAA concludes just more than one-third of incidents involved close encounters, and one-third of those involved multi-engine jet aircraft.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been unable to assess the condition of its Hitomi X-ray astronomy satellite, despite briefly receiving signals from one of five pieces into which the spacecraft has broken after an apparent onboard failure of some kind.
China is likely to begin fixed-wing naval operations in the Indian Ocean once it commissions its second aircraft carrier, currently under construction at Dalian, according to a Japanese research report on Chinese military power.
In past year, the total program cost of the Orbital Control System network has grown 16% to more than $4.1 billion, largely to software development issues.
After a long wait, astronauts are prepared to share real estate aboard the International Space Station with a rugged fabric habitation module, a commercial prototype for the kind of enclosure that can be greatly compressed to a low launch volume.
South Korea is launching a technology demonstrator program for an unmanned strike aircraft, aiming to build a full-scale mockup for assessment of radar cross section while flying eight subscale aircraft to prove tailless flight control.
