Defense

By Tony Osborne
With new and potential orders, Embraer sees bright future for KC-390 airlifter. Emphasizing its multirole capability along with the speed performance offered by its IAE V2500 turbofan—as well as the reliability and low-cost operational experience of its regional jet family—the Brazilian aerospace company hopes to take a major share of the airlifter market over the next 10-15 years. .
Defense

Even as world military expenditures fell again last year, commercial aerospace entered its 12th year of consecutive growth.
Defense

Asia-Pacific Staff
Though India and Russia are nearing a deal on a “joint effort” to develop a fifth-generation fighter, Indian air force officials remain exasperated by the service’s shrinking contribution and slipping schedules.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
BAE Systems’ arrangement to upgrade South Korean F-16s may be in jeopardy as the U.S. and South Korea dispute the costs involved
Defense

By Byron Callan
Defense stocks are traditionally thought of by investors as defensive.
Defense

Sukhoi needs an order, so it is willing to sell its most advanced Flanker to China, a customer that has already reverse engineered the Su-27.
Zhuhai

Lockheed Martin has joined Northrop Grumman in protesting Raytheon’s win of a U.S. Air Force air defense radar contract potentially worth $1 billion.
Defense

Michael Lopez-Alegria has been to orbit four times – three of them in a NASA space shuttle and once on a Russian Soyuz capsule. At the recent International Astronautical Congress in Toronto, the former U.S. Navy test pilot described the differences taking off and landing in the two vehicles. As you will hear, they are very different indeed.

Defense

By Graham Warwick
Rotorcraft candidates for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi Role mission are concentrating on many “wow factor” characteristics above and beyond speed
Aerospace

By Kevin Michaels
Last month, Michigan celebrated the centennial of aeronautical engineering in the U.S.
Defense

Dassault Aviation Chairman and CEO Eric Trappier talks to Aviation Week about the market, the company’s hefty R&D investments and why he is confident Dassault will gain ground on Gulfstream in China. Since since taking the top job in January 2013, he has focused intensely on the company’s business-jet dossier, which accounts for 70% of sales. The 5X and 8X mark Dassault’s expansion into the super-midsize and long-range markets.
Business Aviation

The Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft, fielded for training and operations around the country, continue to fly under a restricted envelope following a June 23 engine fire in an F-35A. The Pentagon has yet to announce a definitive path to dealing with the design problem on the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine that prevented the F-35 from making its international debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough air show in July.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
German military dealing with persistent readiness and procurement issues
Defense

France, U.K. agree to study new jointly developed UCAV platform
Defense

The fiscally challenged U.S. Army is enhancing the capabilities of its frontline attack helicopter—the AH-64D/E Apache
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Bell Helicopter bulks up its tiltrotor team as it pursues the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi Role technology demonstrator
Defense

By Guy Norris
Auto-collision avoidance enters service on U.S. Air Force F-16s as life-extension plan firms up
Defense

A partnership between NASA and SpaceX is giving the U.S. space agency an early look at what it would take to land multi-ton habitats and supply caches

Defense

By Guy Norris, Joe Anselmo, Graham Warwick
Joe Anselmo and Graham Warwick ask Guy Norris about his story on Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and their Compact Fusion Reactor.
Aerospace

The Pentagon's long-awaited deal with Pratt & Whitney to build the seventh low-rate production lot of F135 engines for the multinational F-35 fighter has finally been signed, though officials have not yet outlined a clear path forward to address the design issue that led to an engine fire that grounded the fleet of single-engine aircraft this summer.
Defense

At 7,000 troops, the Peace Mission 2014 military exercise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was not large militarily. But its geopolitical importance was considerable: It was the biggest exercise to date for a budding anti-democratic alliance that includes two nuclear powers and could soon gain three more.
Defense

Pan-European cooperation in military Earth observation could see progress by the end of this year as France presses for allied contributions to the next-generation Optical Space Component (CSO) system in exchange for access to its high-resolution imagery.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Darpa’s Ground X-Vehicle Technology program is a precursor to experimental vehicles that would demonstrate improved survivability by new means.
Defense

Francis Tusa
Man-portable weapon upgrades were featured by Saab Dynamics at its recent industry day
Defense

Angus Batey
Enhanced land-mine detection product is underway in Europe
Defense