Defense

China has sent the Wentian lab module to space, lifting off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on the Long March-5B Y3 carrier rocket

Three Nigerian Air Force L-39ZAs, which have been at Aero Vodochody for two years were flown back to Kano air base, home to the 403 Flying Training School (TFS) last week.

Since all 12 KAI FA-50PH were delivered in 2017, the S.211 has primarily been used for pilot training.

Tracking capability is critical to intercepting hypersonic missiles.

Carbon-nanotube anti-ice; RAF advances synthetic fuels; Boeing taps UK SAF R&D; Electric taxiing for Airbus A220.

Advanced air mobility developer Beta Technologies has secured a 75-year lease at Burlington International Airport in Vermont to build a 355,000-ft.² electric aircraft production facility.

Relativity Space is “weeks away” from launching its first rocket, the Terran 1.

The launch of Russia’s robotic Luna-25 lander to the Moon is likely to slip to 2023.

The UK Royal Air Force is advancing its work on the development of synthetic aviation fuels as it eyes becoming net zero by 2040.

Bristow Group has secured a 10-year contract with the UK’s Department of Transport to provide search-and-rescue services to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

BRISTOW has new 10-year, £1.6b UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) contract to provide search and rescue aviation operations in partnership with

BOEING rolled out first of four P-8As for NEW ZEALAND from paint shop; delivery is expected by end 2022.

The U.S. State Department has given the green light for the sale of 80 Lockheed Martin AGM-158B-2 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles - Extended Range to Australia under the foreign military sales program.

The warning is in Japan's 2022 Defense White Paper that also discusses tensions over the Taiwan Straits.

NASA has awarded a $73 million contract to Draper, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program for a robotic mission to Schrodinger Basin on the Moon’s far side to conduct a series of geophysical and environmental science investigations.

Continuing a tradition that dates back to 1957, Aviation Week editors have announced their selection of the 2022 Laureate Award winners.

The first six students from the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) have completed phase IV of the Advanced/Lead-In to Fighter Training programme at the International Flight Training School (IFTS), launched a year ago at the 61st Wing of the Italian Air Force base in Lecce-Galatina, Italy.

Embraer is to work with BAE Systems in a push to introduce its C-390 transporter to the Middle East market. The two companies will also collaborate in the development of a variant of the electrical vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle, EVE.specifically aimed at the defence market.

RAF high-speed testbed plan provides hypersonic debut opportunity for Reaction Engines heat exchanger and propulsion technology.

Tempest’s demonstrator will likely test low-observable airframe technologies and supersonic weapon launch from internal bay.

Original concepts for an “attritiable” Loyal Wingman are diverging in favor of a mix of greater and lesser advanced platforms.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti teamed up for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on July 21 to advance activation of the 37-ft.-long, multi-jointed European Robotic Arm. The arm was launched as part of the Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory module in July 2021.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is joining forces with Lockheed Martin to once again produce a rugged, non-pneumatic tire for use on the Moon.

The Power Units of Rolls-Royce and Safran are partnering to develop an engine for the subsonic cruise missile element of the Franco-British Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon (FC/ASW) program.

Leonardo Helicopters has been awarded a £60 million ($71.7 million) contract to build and fly an uncrewed rotary-wing aerial system technology demonstrator.