Defense

By Tony Osborne, Graham Warwick
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has launched another round of fundraising with the completion of assembly of its Airlander 10 hybrid airship.
Defense

The U.S. Navy’s new procedures for dealing with breathing system problems in F-18 line aircraft will require a surge in spare parts and logistical needs.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
AVX Aircraft is to develop the transmission and propulsion systems for the vertical-take-off-and-landing (VTOL) shipboard unmanned aircraft that Northrop Grumman is building under Darpa’s Tern program.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India’s Reliance Defense Ltd. has teamed up with French avionics firm Sagem to develop and transfer technology for the Infrared Search and Track (IRST) system for naval warships and combat aircraft.
Defense

An Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine assigned to Submarine Group 10 completed a Follow-on Commander’s Evaluation Test (FCET) earlier this month with the launch of three Trident II D5 missiles, U.S. Navy officials say.
Defense

FL Technics has won a contract with the Ethiopian Air Force to supply spare parts and components for training, transport and multi-purpose aircraft.
MRO

Algeria is due to receive 40 Attack helicopters, as part of a contract deal with Russia.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
To achieve the stated goal of reducing the flyaway cost by approximately $10 million by the end of 2019, to $85 million for the conventional F-35A, will require the government customer to begin investing in manufacturing improvements beginning in 2017.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Would Lockheed’s C-130J equipped with retracting floats provide the U.S. military with an amphibian answer to China’s Avic TA600 long-range flying boat?
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Production technology has advanced over the 15 years the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been in development. Now those advances are helping reduce the fighter’s cost.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Icephobic rubber; nanopowder lasers; sonic-boom data probe; Congress advances delivery UAS; industry wants FVL insight.
Air Transport

By Mark Carreau
The crew's activities are scheduled to include the addition of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module space habitat and the belated installation of the first docking port for U.S. commercial crew transport vehicles.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Swarz rushed to aid victims of an F-16 crash at an air base in Spain, saving two airmen from an accident that killed 11 others.
Defense

Airbus Group reached an agreement to sell its defense electronics business to global investment firm KKR for €1.1 billion ($1.24 billion).
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Navantia is poised to win another Australian naval construction program following the choice of the Spanish company as preferred supplier for two replenishment ships.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Norwegian defense firm Kongsberg has purchased the minority stake in its Finnish counterpart Patria, consolidating a chunk of the Scandinavian defense industry.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority has postponed a planned price hike in air show charges that would have seen administration fees for U.K. air displays increase by 100%.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Saab says it still has hopes to export the Gripen fighter to Indonesia, despite Jakarta’s decision to order the Sukhoi Su-35.
Defense

At Aviation Week’s 59th annual Laureate Awards in Washington, editors saluted two dozen finalists and then announced a winner in each of six categories: commercial aviation, defense, space, innovation, technology and business aviation.
Defense

U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory/Lockheed Martin team was named Aviation Week’s 2016 Defense Laureate winners for its work on an integrated collision avoidance system (ICAS) designed to automatically maneuver U.S. combat aircraft away from an imminent collision with the ground or other aircraft.
Defense

Tomorrow’s Leaders’ honors at Aviation Week 2016 Laureates Awards gives recognition to young U.S. service members already excelling in their fields.
Workforce

Despite uncertain funding, Aurora Flight Sciences’ Orion unmanned aircraft project has achieved considerable technological success, and for that it is awarded Aviation Week’s 2016 Innovation Laureate.
Defense

By Byron Callan
There may be some hints of intent as the presidential campaign heads into the home stretch in September-October.
Defense

The strategic world of today does not conform to air mobility and force-structure plans based on mass force movements between secure bases.
Defense

USAF Staff Sgt. Greggory Swarz’s decision to rush—with no thought of personal safety—to aid crash victims at an air base in Spain resulted in two airmen surviving a crash that proved fatal to 11.
Defense