Defense

Bell’s tandem-cockpit, single-main-rotor Invictus is competing for the FARA contest against Sikorsky’s Raider X.

Hydrosat has won a contract from AFWERX to adapt its surface temperature data analytics software for military missions.

A zigzagging Chinese high-altitude balloon roving across the U.S. recalls a history of lighter-than-air spy missions and highlights a new trend.

Leonardo UK has been exploring the potential capabilities of air launched effects that could bolster the company’s helicopter products.

Japan has passed a bill enabling the government to take over certain production lines should a private supplier decide to withdraw from a military program.

U.S. troops in the Middle East turn to new tech and adapted missile defenses to help protect bases.

The balloon has flown over sensitive locations including nuclear missile fields but President Biden has been advised not to shoot it down.

Funds raised will be used to launch a demonstrator capsule in 2024.

Two astronauts finished preparations for the future installation of a final pair of Roll Out Solar Arrays on the International Space Station.

Joe Acaba was among three teachers selected by NASA to become astronauts.

The program seeks to validate a cost-saving approach to fielding aircraft, with the Air Force’s proposed Collaborative Combat Aircraft as a potential recipient.

Spain is set to acquire additional Eurofighters and an unnamed fifth-generation fighter–likely the F-35–as part of a new program.

A 2021 review cut the UK's planned Boeing E-7 Wedgetail fleet from five aircraft to three.

The F-35 now can use the Multi-Utilization Secure Tactical And Network Ground Station, a ground system that receives and relays data from an in-flight F-35.

Video shows a rollout and spooling up of the Hurjet advanced jet trainer's General Electric F404 engine at Turkish Aerospace's facility in Ankara.

This piece is designed to educate readers to the damage career fighter pilots endure as a result of head-borne weights.

A long-awaited international air show Down Under will highlight the impact of a strategic pivot by Australia since 2019.

The White House led high-level meetings this week with Indian officials.

The service has had to compress development of C-130J missions onto the A400M.

GA-ASI CEO Linden Blue is clearly frustrated with the lack of mandatory U.S. government approval to export the highly controlled weapon systems.

Throughput of the UK Royal Air Force’s pilot training pipeline is improving, the head of the service has insisted.

A UK university team has been awarded £520,000 ($643,400) to develop an artificially intelligent (AI) software program to predict solar storms.

The Space Development Agency (SDA) wants to break up the Tranche 2 Transport Layer of its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed an eight-propulsor, monohull design for the DARPA Liberty Lifter program.

The company plans to pick up the pace, with an eye of up to 100 flights in 2023.