Japan’s defense ministry proposes in its fiscal 2016 budget to place money-saving multiyear orders for Sikorsky H-60 helicopters, to be built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries under license, and imported Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor transports.
The UAE's Amiri flight has been given the go-ahead by the US State department to purchase military infrared-missile countermeasure systems to protect its Boeing VVIP aircraft.
The company behind the Meteor air-to-air missile’s throttleable ducted ram-rocket propulsion, Germany’s Bayern-Chemie, says a feasibility study shows the technology could power a Mach 5-plus lower-tier ballistic-missile interceptor.
The U.S. Air Force has elected to extend the time between major repair overhauls for its stealthy B-2 bombers by two years and decrease the time needed for each overhaul.
The last aircraft, the 279th off the line, was rolled into the facility’s paint shop at the end of August and will shortly begin engine and systems checks.
Deliveries of Royal Australian Navy MH-60R helicopters from Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin are running ahead of schedule, because U.S. budget-control measures are forcing delays in acquisition for the U.S. Navy.
U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler pilots fired an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile off the coast of Virginia during a Tactical Support Wing training event earlier this month, marking the first time Electronic Attack Squadron 209 (VAQ-209) has employed the Raytheon-built missile.
The FAA is proposing to update its decades-old rules that do not formally recognize launch and recovery operations for high-powered amateur rockets on U.S. soil.
Russia’s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station early Sept. 4, delivering a three-man crew for a week of spacecraft and personnel exchanges as well as technology demonstrations and science experiments.
Denmark’s first astronaut plans to join with ground-based researchers at ESA’s Telerobotics & Haptics Laboratory in The Netherlands over his weeklong stay aboard the International Space Station to demonstrate technologies for the orbital control of robots on planetary surfaces.
Budget experts begin to worry about a potential government shutdown; the FAA disputes method of finding control tower inefficiencies; and NASA tells lawmakers it is tough on Space X.
Advances in Russian military technology on display at the Moscow Air Show, including jammers and missiles, illustrate how Russia has pursued an asymmetric response counter to U.S. advantages.
Terrafugia is threatening to move its TF-X small UAV flying car research and development work out of the U.S. if the FAA does not grant the company an exemption for its work.
Terrafugia is threatening to move its TF-X small UAV flying car research and development work out of the U.S. if the FAA does not grant the company an exemption for its work.
Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio have signed agreements valued at €182 million ($205 million) with Italian space agency ASI to begin work on the next phase of Italy’s dual-use COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG) radar satellite program.
China announced a cut of about 13% in armed forces personnel on Sept. 3 ahead of a parade that marked the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.
The first two Lockheed Martin F-35As for the U.S. Air Force’s initial operational Joint Strike Fighter unit were delivered to the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah, on Sept. 2.
