Defense

What remains is for Marine Corps Commandant Joseph Dunford to give the official nod for initial operational capability.
Defense

Group chief executive of South African state-owned Denel, Riaz Saloojee, hopes to get approval from the government to restart the Rooivalk combat helicopter production line.
Defense

Alenia Aermacchi is in talks with a new U.S. partner for the Air Force’s T-X advanced trainer program, the company tells Aviation Week, and a deal should be announced “very soon.”
Defense

Harkening to 787 problems, KC-46’s fuel system falls victim to faulty parts.
Defense

Michael Donley
Michael Donley says that, given the potential for a protest, an extra dose of discipline is needed in selecting who will build the Air Force’s next-generation bomber.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
By choosing the Bell 412, license-built by FHI, Japan has gone for low cost and low risk. The main alternative was the advanced Airbus H160, which KHI could have helped build for global customers.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Nontraditional suppliers and technologies help missile-manufacturer Raytheon trim cost of MALD-J air-launched decoy jammer.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky's technology work could add to Lockheed Martin’s portfolio but also could overlap, forcing internal decisions on which of various competing approaches to pursue.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
With Sikorsky deal, and IT divestitures, Lockheed Martin is doubling-down on weapons for Washington
Defense

A highly stressed UAV force may have finally worn down USAF resistance to automatic UAV takeoff and landing systems.
Defense

Eurofighter engineers and pilots claim to have made big improvements with some small shape changes.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The Kawasaki P-1 was showcased for senior British officers in advance of Japan’s anticipated bid for the U.K.’s new maritime patrol contract.
Defense

Redesigns and retrofits required to address a faulty integrated fuel system for the tanker appear to be the cause of the latest cost overrun for Boeing to keep the U.S. Air Force’s KC-46 aerial refueling program on track.
Defense

USAF designed it, but will industry build Super Strypi rail-launched rocket?
Space

By Richard Aboulafia
Boeing has not won a single international KC-46 order thus far; the Airbus KC-30 now has 48 orders.
Defense

The U.S. Marine Corps has completed an operational readiness inspection of its first F-35B squadron, the last major hurdle before the service can assess whether VMFA-121 in Yuma, Arizona, is suitable to declare initial operational capability.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
The planned $9 billion purchase could be more defining for Lockheed, the Pentagon’s leading prime contractor, than helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky or even the rotorcraft market.
Defense

This first delivery comes just five months after the Egyptian decision to acquire 24 Rafales (16 two-seaters and eight single-seaters) in order to equip its Air Force with a latest-generation multirole fighter capable of meeting the country's operational requirements and enabling Egypt, with full sovereignty, to secure its geostrategic position in the region.
Defense

Boeing is taking another charge on its books, $835 million before taxes, to keep the Air Force's KC-46 aerial refueling tanker program on track.
Defense

Think that range, payload and stealth will be the deciding factors in the Air Force’s bomber choice? Think again.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Perceived threat from Turkey keeps Greek defense spending high as country suffers.
Defense

Boeing believes airplane manufacturing costs can be cut drastically—and it has a secret program aimed at proving it.
Defense

By Antoine Gelain
With the rapid growth of commercial aviation, the label “aerospace and defense” has become largely irrelevant, if not entirely misleading.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Is this the beginning of the end of the great A&D stock boom?
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Despite Iran deal, the Middle East is a hotbed of weapons sales, FAA threatens to downgrade Thai aviation safety, cost of operating the ISS skyrockets and a politician’s home-state advantage.
Defense