Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has confirmed it will be one of four competitors for an Australian lead-in fighter trainer requirement, proposing its T-50 family.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has charged Ellen Lord, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, with leading a review of certification standards and industrial base gaps.
During what was supposed to be a routine training flight, a bullet struck a U.S. Air Force UH-1N Huey helicopter, forcing the pilot to conduct an emergency landing in Manassas, Virginia.
Engineered Propulsion Systems (EPS) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Western District of Wisconsin, while Chinese and “other foreign interests” are poised to buy the company’s assets and intellectual property.
Initial data from NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission spacecraft indicate the probe successfully left its low orbit over the asteroid Bennu on Aug. 11 to carry out a 4 1/2-hr. second close-approach rehearsal in preparation for a brief landing to gather surface material for return to Earth.
Northrop Grumman's first B-21 test aircraft entered the assembly process last year and overall is "coming along nicely," according to the U.S. Air Force program manager.
Operations at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have been suspended after the telescope’s reflector dish was damaged by a snapped cable, the University of Central Florida (UCF), which co-manages the National Science Foundation facility, said on Aug. 11.
The U.S. Army's first intelligence-collecting jet has been deployed to the Pacific region as part of a demonstration of sensor technologies that will inform requirements for a new fleet of fixed-wing aircraft.
The HH-60W Jolly Green II combat search and rescue (CSAR) helicopter has completed its first-ever aerial refueling, marking the start of developmental testing.
The Raytheon-built radar jammer confirmed safety-of-flight characteristics during the sortie by the VX-23 flight test squadron at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.
Russian Helicopters announced Aug. 10 that the modernized Kamov Ka-52M attack helicopter made its first flight, taking off from Russian Helicopters’ subsidiary Progress in Arseniev in Russia’s Far East.
About eight months after its founding, the U.S. Space Force has released initial guiding principles in the form of a space capstone publication describing space power as a separate and distinct form of military power.
