Defense

China plans to develop airlifters comparable with the Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy or even Antonov An-225 Mriya, the China Daily says, giving no time frame.

As U.S. Navy jet pilots keep reporting breathing-related problems, finding fixes for the episodes remains a priority for service aviation leaders.

India is planning to buy an aircraft to conduct weather forecasting and climate research, a senior government official says.

The South Korean government and key aerospace companies have made the low-risk choice of the Safran Arriel 2 as the engine for the LCH-LAH civil and military helicopter family under development by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI).

Live flight testing for the five finalists will be held August 8-12 at Marine Corps Base Quantico, south of Washington.

The U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft and American ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems are helping stitch together a security net for the U.S. and its allies in the Asia-Pacific region, Defense Secretary Ash Carter says.

Sikorsky’s entry into Darpa’s VTOL X-Plane competition may not have been selected, but the company sees missions for an unmanned aircraft that can operate from small-deck warships with high speed and long range.

The decision by offshore helicopter operator CHC to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection will impact other industry players, Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury says.

Airbus Defense and Space’s electronics and border security (EBS) business will be relaunched under the new brand name Hensoldt in 2017.

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) and its branch clinics are helping aircraft pilots cut down on the noise and still communicate as needed.

Naval Sea Systems Command Expeditionary Missions Program Office, Visual Augmentation Systems program recently began to transition Wide Field of View night vision goggles to the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command warfighters, Navy officials say.

Charles Beaudouin, head of the French army’s procurement arm STAT, focuses on getting what soldiers need when they need it, and not waiting until the technology is most advanced.

The coverage provided by the monthly Defense Technology International edition will be integrated into every issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology and available even more quickly.

Ground forces upgrade situational awareness and weapons accuracy in asymmetric combat with a range of advanced recon and fire control systems.

Despite potential limitations on exports, South Korea selects GE 414 engine for KF-X fighter.

Motor-glider experience prompts new developments in optionally piloted surveillance aircraft.

The unfolding revolution in the automotive industry is less about research than development—spotting and bringing together an array of externally sourced technologies.

A fleet of aircraft and an air charter service are part of the Republican presidential candidates long—and very visible—association with aviation.

Sixteen of San Francisco-based Planet Labs’ latest Dove CubeSats completed a three-day deployment cycle from the International Space Station late June 1.

Lockheed Martin is standing up its final assembly and support facility for the T-50A advanced trainer in Greenville, South Carolina, as the aircraft enters flight testing in South Korea ahead of the U.S. Air Force’s T-X competition, expected to get underway late this year or early next.

The Russian state corporation for space activities, Roscosmos, has pushed back the launch date for the next three-person International Space Station (ISS) crew from June 24 to July 7 to further check out a flight control system issue that could disrupt docking operations, the TASS news agency says.

Boeing and Sikorsky have laid out their pitches for an expected German procurement of heavylift helicopters.

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has called for a grounding of all European-registered H225/EC225 helicopters after Norwegian investigators found evidence of metal fatigue in a gearbox component from the aircraft that crashed in Norway in April.

The U.S. Army launched the in-development Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) from a General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) on May 25, hitting a moving truck target.

U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (Navair) plans to review ScanEagle contract pricing in the wake of a Pentagon Inspector General (IG) investigation into program transactions.