With the U.S. military losing six jets to accidents in a span of about two weeks, the Navy is canceling upcoming Blue Angels air shows and the service’s “air boss” is asking the aviation community to focus even more on safety.
Sierra Nevada Corp. is using its multi-billion-dollar NASA contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) as a marketing starting gun aimed at selling its Dream Chaser lifting-body vehicle for missions all over the emerging low Earth orbit economy and beyond.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security has added Qatar as its 12th confirmed international customer for the AH-64 Apache after securing a $667.5 million foreign military sales contract with the Gulf state for 24 “Guardian” E-models.
A Chinese J-10 fighter intercepted a U.S. Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance plane earlier this month over the East China Sea at high rate of speed that the American air crew believed to be unsafe, Pentagon officials say.
Under the terms of a new four-year agreement, Aerojet Rocketdyne will become Raytheon’s primary, long-term supplier for existing propulsion systems and explosives.
The rollout of laser-guided rockets to operational theaters in Iraq and Afghanistan is continuing, with BAE Systems confirming on June 8 that the U.S. Air Force has fielded its mid-body guidance kits for the 2.75-in. (70mm) rounds on the Lockheed Martin F-16 and Fairchild Republic A-10.
With the development of lasers, railgun and hypervelocity projectile (HVP) weapons, the U.S. Navy has its best potential menu yet for alternative missile shields, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says in a recent report.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is rolling out several new programs aimed at better securing the perimeter and access control areas of smaller commercial service airports from external and insider threats.
Textron Systems’ unmanned RQ-7B soars past its 1-millionth flight hour, with the vast majority of those spent shadowing insurgent forces in Iraq and Afghanistan from above.
Roscosmos, the Russian state corporation for space activities, has formally rescheduled the launch of its first Modified Soyuz with three new International Space Station crewmembers from June 24 to July 7 to accommodate additional software testing.
Russian jet maker Irkut Corp. on June 7 showed the first Yak-152 light piston engine trainer prototypes being assembled at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant in East Siberia.
U.K. light aircraft manufacturer e-Go Aeroplanes has handed over its first serial aircraft, marking the formal start of production of its e-Go ultralight.
There is nothing wrong or underhanded about the private discussion between Defense Secretary Ash Carter and SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk scheduled for June 7, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook says.
The first U.S. Army heavy attack reconnaissance squadron to deploy operationally with teams of Boeing AH-64 Apaches and Textron Systems RQ-7Bv2 Shadow unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has returned home from Iraq.
HARTFORD, Conn.—UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) stated that its focus on increasingly more-electric, intelligent and integrated aircraft systems will help drive a 6% annual compounded growth rate through 2020.
U.S. nuclear forces still anchor their global defensive posture with the traditional triad of land-based ICBMs, strategic bombers and nuclear missile submarines, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) says.
United Technologies will ramp up efforts to cut costs from its supply chain as one of the pillars to delivering financial and customer performance in coming years, CEO and President Greg Hayes told reporters June 6.
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and a Russian cosmonaut floated into the Bigelow Expandable Activities Module (BEAM) early June 6, initiating a two-year evaluation of the human-rated, reinforced-fabric prototype habitat.
The recent midair collision between two F/A-18F Super Hornets is the costliest mishap for the U.S. Navy so far this fiscal decade, and combined with the fatal F/A-18C Hornet Blue Angels crash earlier this month puts the Navy on pace for its most expensive year for incidents during that time, an Aviation Week analysis of Navy Safety Center record shows.
The fatal June 3 mishap involving an F/A-18C Hornet underscore the rarity of such incidents for the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron, which excels in making some of the riskiest aerial maneuvers in the safest manner.
