Defense

By Lee Hudson
Over the last four months, the U.S. Air Force’s aging C-5M Super Galaxy daily flight rate hovered around 20%, according to exclusive data provided to Aerospace DAILY.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Gen. Charles Brown singled out the Advanced Battle Management System as a top priority for research and development funding, but the program has become a punching bag for Congress.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Lift Aircraft has completed its first six production Hexa single-person multicopters, including an aircraft delivered to the U.S. Air Force for flight testing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Space Force intends to establish a commercial solutions office at Space Systems Command to better leverage industry’s work in satellite communications and tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile (PRSM) has completed a 400-km flight demonstration, the longest yet by the ground-launched tactical missile
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Hudson
House Armed Services Committee Vice Chairman Anthony Brown (D-Md.) said he believes the fiscal 2022 defense policy bill will not pass the full House until after the August recess.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Space Force recently declassified a new developmental program, the Ground Moving Target Indicator space-based system, envisioned to replace a portion of the aging E-8C Joint Surveillance and Attack Radar System’s sensing capability.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Korea Aerospace Industries' concept for a future indigenous airlifter and its proposed capabilities have been leaked online.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Ministry of Defense is calling on industry to provide a novel solution to the future provision of airborne early warning for the Royal Navy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The Australia Department of Defense has revealed plans to upgrade its Aegis-equipped, Hobart-class Air Warfare Destroyer and is also preparing to introduce its new Gulfstream MC-55A Peregrine long-range intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic warfare aircraft.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Graham Warwick
With the U.S. Army looking to maintain the capability of its legacy helicopter fleet even as it moves to modernize the force with advanced rotorcraft, continued progress with a new engine program is becoming crucial to its plans.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Space Force released three requests for prototype proposals to industry, laying the groundwork for a competition for the next set of national security space launches.
Space

By Guy Norris
Rocket Lab is poised to conduct the first of two additional tests of Electron launch vehicles specially modified for reusability which, if successful, could pave the way for the first mid-air recovery of a booster for re-use as early as next year.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Eight Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35Is joined a strike package of 80 Israeli fighters in strikes on hundreds of sites in Gaza on May 11.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Guy Norris, Irene Klotz
Ingenuity begins operational test phase with one-way flight to new forward base ahead of rover’s intended route.
Space

By Maksim Pyadushkin
After a successful launch, an uncontrolled 18-ton booster landed in the Indian Ocean.
Space

By Mark Carreau
This week is to mark the final ground-based, clean-room deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror as the observatory is prepared for an ocean voyage from Northrop Grumman facilities in California to its launch site in French Guiana for a planned Oct. 31 liftoff.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The plan emerged after the Navy Reserve decided to accelerate the retirement of aging F/A-18A-D fighters used for aggressor missions.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Irene Klotz
As he settles into his new job as NASA administrator, former Florida Sen. Bill Nelson took an early step into the agency’s international arena, with a stern warning to China—and any other country or entity—that flies rockets without the means to control them, such as what happened with China’s most recent Long March 5B booster.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A crew at the 53rd Wing on Eglin AFB, Florida, loaded five of the 2,150-lb. cruise missiles on an F-15E, with a JASSM on each wing and aft conformal fuel tank station, as well as another on the belly hard point.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Army continues to move at a fast clip as it strives to field two new advanced rotorcraft in fiscal 2030, with key technologies to be tested in demonstration exercises this year while the development of competing aircraft continues.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Newly sworn in NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has appointed Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana to serve as the agency’s associate administrator, its highest ranking civil servant.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Korea Aviation Engineering & Maintenance Service (KAEMS) has signed an MoU with Airbus Defense and Space as it positions itself to support the Republic of Korea Air Force’s Airbus CN-235 transport aircraft maintenance and future upgrade requirements.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Space Force has delivered two multi-manifest satellite vehicles that are carrying multiple payloads to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for integration aboard the rocket that is to launch the fifth Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS-5) satellite in mid-May.
Space

By Steve Trimble, Guy Norris
First A-29 deliveries come after a decade-long audition, but orders fall far short of original expectations.
Aircraft & Propulsion