Defense

U.S. Strategic Command detected and tracked what it assessed were two North Korean missile launches from Wonsan at 10:56 a.m. and 1:03 p.m. Hawaii time June 21.
Defense

By Guy Norris
A proposed upgrade stemming from Pratt’s system development and demonstration program for the F-35 engine has the potential to cut fuel burn by as much as 7% on aircraft entering service by the early 2020s, the company says.
Defense

By Guy Norris
The technology is considered vital to achieving the high-speed, long-endurance performance requirements of the F/A-XX and F-X sixth-generation fighters.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Assembly of the Stratolaunch, the enormous air launch carrier aircraft venture backed by billionaire Paul Allen, is 76% complete.
Defense

Space-launch startups Blue Origin and SpaceX continue to take advantage of their owners’ deep pockets to advance the state of the art in reusable vehicles, with back-to-back test attempts over the past week to recover launchers after they had delivered payloads to suborbital space.
Defense

Lockheed Martin aims to deliver the latest version of the F-35’s critical logistics system to the U.S. Air Force by the end of November, a new target that leaves little room for error before the end-of-year deadline for the service to declare the jet operational.
Defense

The road to F-35A initial operational capability (IOC) has been long and fraught with technical glitches. But 15 years after Lockheed Martin won the Joint Strike Fighter contract, the U.S. Air Force’s first Lightning II combat squadron says it is almost ready for war.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Discoveries of two very large planets close to their distant young stars are informing still-maturing theories about how and when planetary bodies in solar systems like ours arrange themselves.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Bombardier has agreed to sell its Amphibious Aircraft operations to Victoria, British Columbia-based Viking Air, which in 2005 took over ownership and support of former all de Havilland Canada (DHC) types from the Canadian aircraft manufacturer.
Defense

As U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter touts America's relationships with its allies, pundits wonder how the upcoming presidential election could change those relationships.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Japan’s defense ministry is requesting information for its next fighter program, taking an early step toward an acquisition that will shape the country’s air force in the middle of the century and perhaps result in a domestic development effort.
Defense

Treating land-based missile defense in a completely different way could alter the character of military strategy in the Asia-Pacific and certain other important global theaters, according to recent studies by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA).
Defense

A delay in the arrival of F-35s is limiting the fleet of flight-ready F-18s and affecting flight-training time.
Defense

From the nuclear triad to the arsenal aircraft to Donald Trump as commander in chief, Gen. Mark Welsh discusses issues confronting the U.S. Air Force.
Defense

Raytheon says it has developed a formidable weapon for countering UAV swarms based around a high-power magnetron that can emit enough microwave energy to clear an area in the sky the size of a football field with one pulse.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
High-profile investment advisors are beginning to weigh in on which U.S. presidential candidate would be better for the aerospace and defense industries.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Three U.S., U.K. and Russian astronauts departed the International Space Station (ISS) and descended to Earth aboard their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft early June 18, safely ending a 186-day mission to the orbiting science lab.
Defense

The outgoing U.S. Air Force chief of staff has called for a “flying artillery” aircraft to replace the Fairchild Republic A-10 Warthog, as his successor distances himself from any arrangements to retire the aging close air support (CAS) platform “in the near-term.”
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo-Finmeccanica plans to begin marketing a new light attack version of its M346 jet trainer at the July 11-17 Farnborough air show.
Defense

The first temporary detachment of U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack aircraft arrived at Clark Air Base earlier this month for training with Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) FA-50 aircraft pilots, the Navy says.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Defense and Space has conducted wind tunnel testing on an extended length refueling hose which the company hopes can solve the A400M’s helicopter refueling woes.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India has eased limits on foreign direct investment (FDI) in defense joint ventures, with the aim of enticing international defense contractors to manufacture equipment in the country.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Surveillance service provider MAG Aerospace has flight tested Logos Technologies’ Redkite wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system on a Cessna 206 Caravan as a step toward offering the ability to monitor a city-sized area as a turnkey service.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Northrop Grumman plans to build a second Tern ship-based vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft under a $17.8 million contract extension from DARPA.
Defense

By Jens Flottau
In his first interview since announcing his retirement as Embraer CEO, Fred Curado discusses how Embraer has changed, current challenges and the looming trade dispute with Bombardier.
Air Transport