Defense

By Bill Carey
In a June 24 letter to the Security Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, DJI protested testimony delivered by some of the witnesses who appeared at a hearing days earlier.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The latest MBDA and Lockheed Martin submission was announced June 24, four years after MEADS was selected over Raytheon’s Patriot.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The June 21 delivery of the A319OH (OH - Offenen Himmel, German for Open Skies) restores a capability lost 22 years ago.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Potential performance specifications are included in a request for information released by Army Contracting Command on June 18 as service officials seek to learn what possible bidders can offer.
Defense

By Steve Trimble, Guy Norris
After playing catch-up to boost-glide weapons, scramjets become a viable near-term option.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus and Dassault used the Paris Air Show to reveal their vision for a New-Generation Fighter and the unmanned systems that will support it.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Bangladesh has already purchased two former Royal Air Force (RAF) C-130Js, both of which are currently undergoing refurbishment with Marshall Aerospace and Defense in Cambridge, UK.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
An appeal by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade concluded that ministers had made no assessments on whether the Saudi-led coalition operating in Yemen had committed violations of international humanitarian law, Court of Appeals judges said June 20.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The company looks to resume operations, having entered extraordinary receivership at the end of last year.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Fred Kennedy's departure will not alter the Pentagon’s plans to establish the SDA, Pentagon spokeswoman Heather Babb said.
Defense

By Bill Carey
The situation presents a risk to civil aviation and the potential for “miscalculation or misidentification,” as evidenced by the surface-to-air missile strike of the Navy aircraft while it was operating over the Gulf of Oman, the agency said.
Defense

By Angus Batey
Thales' TrUE AI is not so much a product as a new way of thinking and talking about AI-based security, the company says.
Defense

By John Morris
With commercial now set after a decade of renewal, hundreds of engineers and research and development resources are being tasked with creating future generations of military powerplants.
Defense

By Lee Ann Shay
Vertical integration is adding to Boeing’s portfolio “in a way that is creating more value for customers, given the way that [they're] doing it to change the acquisition side of the cost equation and the life-cycle side," the head of Boeing Global Services says.
Defense

By Sean Broderick
Continued demand for legacy airliners and AAR’s integrated portfolio of capabilities are creating aftermarket opportunities.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
U.S. antitrust officials blessed the merger of L3 Technologies and Harris on June 20.
Defense

Customers now "demand smaller, smarter and cost-effective weapons that can hit ad-hoc moving targets," an Elbit official says.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Spirit exhibited the Advanced Structures Technology and Revolutionary Architectures panel, a full-scale demonstration fuselage panel using their new proprietary architecture, at the Paris Air Show.
Defense

By Angus Batey
Already an avionics supplier, Collins now has been contracted to provide temperature and pressure controls for both pilot and equipment on board, and is to use an out-of-autoclave process to manufacture flight-control surfaces for the aircraft.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin is developing a new air-dominance missile for the U.S. Air Force and Navy with significantly greater range than the AIM-120 Amraam as a counter to China’s new PL-15 weapon, a top U.S. Air Force official says.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
“This is the strongest rebuke of [Saudi Arabia] and its leaders since I joined the Senate,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), first elected in 1992.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Defense Department’s top sustainment official says a $25,000 cost per flight hour target for the Lockheed Martin F-35A remains achievable by 2025.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
As the unit flyaway cost of the Lockheed Martin F-35 dramatically decreases, Boeing argues that the F-15EX will remain a competitive option for the USAF.
Defense

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris, Tony Osborne
What did we see and what was missing at the Paris Air Show? Listen in as our editors discuss the highs and lows from the biannual aerospace industry gathering at Le Bourget.
Defense

Issues are arising surrounding the Kenya Air Force (KAF) Bell AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters, writes Jon Lake.
Defense