Defense

Development of compact, efficient rotary internal-combustion engines able to run on jet fuel has been boosted by U.S. Army contracts to advance the technology for unmanned-aircraft propulsion and rotorcraft auxiliary-power applications.

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy’s remarks during a keynote speech at the Association of the U.S. Army’s virtual annual meeting appear to confirm the previously unannounced accuracy results from the Flight Experiment (FE)-2 test.

Hypersonic Production Accelerator Facility would dramatically cut costs and schedule for scramjet propulsion, study says.

What do a startup air mobility company, a major aerospace and defense OEM, a space launch business and a shipbuilder have in common? They must take

In the Lunar Gateway's current form, “Russia is likely to refrain from participating in it on a large scale,” the head of Russia's space agency says.

The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node is expected to play a key role in the Army's future concept of operations.

Marshall is best known for its work supporting the UK Royal Air Force’s fleet of C-130 Hercules airlifters.

HONEYWELL has 5-year contract to provide T55-GA-714A repair/overhaul at Phoenix for US Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters.

AIRBUS was selected by the Commonwealth of Australia (CoA) to develop a Communications and Mission System modernization upgrade for the Royal

The company is investigating an unexpected pressure rise in a Merlin 1D engine turbomachinery gas generator.

France has contracted the conversion of 10 NH90 helicopters with new sensors for special operations missions.

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

This week sees both the International Astronautical Congress (www.iafastro.org) and the Association of the U.S. Army (www.ausa.org) host virtual

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.

North Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in two versions, intended to fit into vessels with different launch tubes.

The new liquid-propellant weapon appeared to be an enlargement of North Korea’s previous ICBM, Hwasong 15, which implicitly has insufficient payload-range capability for all of North Korea’s purposes.

Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of CNES, tells Aviation Week’s Thierry Dubois about the agency’s progress on reusable launchers and other programs in conjunction with International Astronautical Congress 2020.

Boeing has acknowledged three foreign military sales contracts with the U.S. Air Force for training services and support in the Middle East valued at more than $800 million.

The letter from Sen. Bob Menendez and Sen. Jack Reed—both Democrats and ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees, respectively—demanded immediate answers to a list of 40 questions.

The U.S. Space Development Agency is looking for a company to launch an initial set of 28 communications and missile tracking satellites to low Earth orbit beginning in September 2022.

After losing to Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s inaugural transport layer contract award, L3Harris Technologies realized it must alter its strategy to win.

The new generation anti-radiation missile successfully hit a radiating target on Wheeler Island after being launched from a Sukhoi Su-30 MKI.

Irrational, “fear-based” concerns over drone safety and security are stifling the use of the technology in the U.S. after the initial progress that was made in 2016, leading drone manufacturer DJI says.

Proposed sales of both the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Finland have been given a green light by the U.S. State Department.

Ask the Editors: U.S. Air Force and NATO officials have discussed replacing E-3s using a distributed systems approach, but options are not fully developed.