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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 Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors aboard destroyer DDG 70 USS Hopper successfully conducted two developmental flight tests of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB Threat Upgrade guided missile on May 25-26 off the west coast of Hawaii, the Navy says.
The search for cheaper and quicker ways to bring fly-by-wire benefits to helicopters has taken a step forward with the development of a flight-control upgrade for the Boeing Chinook.
Indonesia is overhauling and upgrading its Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker series fighters, even as a long-expected order for additional aircraft appears to be on hold.
Orbital ATK engineers reported apparent success with a hot-fire test of the company’s Antares medium-lift launch vehicle fitted with a new Russian engine Tuesday.
The May 26 midair collision between two Super Hornets represents a rare occurrence for the F/A-18s, but the line of Hornets and Super Hornets has been involved in more incidents than any other U.S. Navy aircraft so far this fiscal decade, according to an Aviation Week analysis of data provided by the U.S. Navy Safety Center.
Analysis of the first noise trials in the Netherlands with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has found that the difference in noise levels between the F-35 and F-16 is perceived to be small.
The vast majority of the Moon’s water, a small but significant volatile stored primarily in the lunar interior, was delivered by impacts from asteroids rather than comets over a 200-million-year period that followed the Moon’s formation, an analysis shows.
Norwegian air accident investigators probing the fatal loss of an Airbus H225 helicopter are studying potential failures of the epicyclic module, suspension bar attachments and the conical housing in the main gearbox as possible causes of the accident.
India has delayed until June its plan to launch 22 satellites—a mission touted as a landmark step toward boosting the country’s potential in the global space business.
Italian aerospace and defense group Leonardo-Finmeccanica says it may reassess its future in India if it is blacklisted by the country’s ministry of defense over long-running claims of corruption in a VIP helicopter deal.
Latest phase of Office of Naval Research autonomous resupply program tackles challenges of wire detection, terrain classification and GPS-denied navigation.
AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor in aerospace, power generation and specialty industrial companies, has acquired AC&A, a manufacturer of composite and metallic parts and tooling. The price was not disclosed.
Top U.S. officials seek to balance the use of government-made spy satellites with new commercial developments in imagery and intelligence collection and analysis.
