Defense

The U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command wants a plan within two months to launch 100 UAVs from a single aging KC-135 Stratotanker.

France’s defense materiel agency has cleared a new 1,000-kg (2,204-lb.) version of the Safran AASM munition for use on Dassault Rafale fighters.

Momentum for the handover of fighters to supplement Ukraine’s remaining air defense fleet of Soviet-era Sukhoi Su-27s and RAC MiG-29s is gradually gaining.

Sikorsky is looking ahead to applying its X2 coaxial rigid-rotor compound helicopter technology to commercial aircraft.

Space startups raised a record-setting $550 million in private and public capital and grant funding during the first quarter of fiscal 2022.

The contract signing confirms the Wichita-based manufacturer will replace the Navy’s T-44 fleet of aircraft.

Work on the site gets underway almost exactly a year after Boom Supersonic announced it had selected Greensboro as its production, test and delivery facility.

The agreements come just more than a month since the GCAP enterprise was formed.

The potential loss would reflect inflationary pressures and the impact of supply chain disruptions on the first five lots of low-rate production.

The funding will be used to build a full-scale prototype of Electra’s hybrid-electric short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

The test confirmed that a 3D-printed engine could operate for long periods at full throttle with a rotating detonation approach to combustion.

The recent Exercise Varuna with India addresses French security concerns and showcases Rafale fighters to the Indian Navy.

A two-year project will explore hose-and-drogue positioning and drogue stability control.

France plans to spend more than €400 billion on defense in 2024-30, President Emmanuel Macron has declared.

The U.S. Army and Bell parent company Textron on Jan. 25 expressed confidence in the aggressive schedule of the Future Long Range Attack Aircraft program.

The U.S. Army in the next two months will award multiple large contracts to replenish its stocks of critical munitions that have been sent to Ukraine.

Boeing has unveiled a redefined scalable configuration for potential development as a tactical airlifter C-130 replacement or a C-17-sized strategic transport.

The Pentagon on Jan. 25 issued an updated version of its decade-old guidance governing the development of autonomous systems.

Boeing recorded a net loss of more than $5 billion in 2022, at least 17% worse than in 2021, but sales rose 7% year-over-year to $66.6 billion.

All deliveries from the sole-source contract are expected to be completed within two years of the award of an $87 million, sole-source contract.

Leonardo has delivered the first of 18 skidded-landing variant AW169M intermediate-light twin-engine helicopters to the Guardia di Finanza.

It was Rocket Lab’s first from the Wallops Island facility, opening a new venue for the Electron rocket and marking a new beginning for the Virginia spaceport.

Researchers see a novel way to free up volume and electricity within small-satellite buses.

The last undelivered 747-8Is are being converted into presidential aircraft for the USAF under a nearly $7 billion development project, including cost overruns.

Europe’s industry is exploring the role of cybertechniques as a means to defeat increasingly advanced air defenses.