Defense

Boeing has revealed that the U.S. Navy MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based unmanned refueling tanker company-funded prototype will achieve first flight later this summer.

Raytheon has demoed the AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder in the surface-to-air missile role, launching the interceptor successfully during a test on May 9 in Norway.

Boeing and Embraer will announce the name of its joint venture “very soon,” a company executive says.

At Spirit, we imagine, design and manufacture some of the world’s most complex aerostructures.

Ten years after its operational debut, scoring thousands of target interceptions in combat, and over a hundred units sold to customers worldwide, ELTA is ready to take its Multi-Mission Radar to the next level.

Raytheon has unveiled on the eve of the Paris Air Show a new vision for a future scramjet-powered hypersonic missile.

Having renewed its commercial aviation portfolio with new engines good for another 15 to 20 years, GE Aviation is bringing resources to bear on its military business.

British aerospace suppliers have found themselves frozen out of industry tenders, as the uncertainty about Britain’s departure from the EU continues.

Clocking in a year ahead and well below the previously stated goal of an $80m F-35A by LRIP Lot 14 should not have surprised anyone, a Lockheed Martin executive says.

The company is unveiling concepts for six weapons and effectors that could equip the Franco-German Future Combat Air System and Britain’s Tempest.

The company has revealed that it included two of the Bombardier Global 6000 biz-jet-based platforms in its January bid.

“The missile was successfully launched,” a senior DRDO official said June 14. The aim of the mission was to “prove a number of critical technologies for futuristic missions.” However, he did not say whether the mission met the objectives.

The move, detailed by Thales on June 14 just days before the Paris Air Show, follows the decision by French armaments agency DGA to integrate the new avionics suite into the new Airbus H160M Guepard (Leopard) utility helicopter.

As well as re-baselining elements of the program, the amendment also partly lifts a heavy financial burden from Airbus’ shoulders that Airbus' previous CEO said resulted in the airframer taking on a “lopsided” share of the risk.

The Armée de l’Air du Cameroun (Cameroon Air Force) is undergoing a major re-equipment programme, although the US halted assistance in February 2019 amid reports of gross violations of human rights by Cameroon’s security forces, writes Jon Lake.

Airframers and engine manufacturers keen to avoid the errors that afflicted multinational A400M and Eurofighter programs.

Officials used a ruler and protractor to assess terrain, not realizing their satellite pictures exaggerated height.

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Top-level A&D consolidation is going on afterburner, with the proposal to merge Raytheon and UTC. Will there be more of the same?

Growing support for the U.S. military’s F-15EX acquisition plan highlights global trend on diverse

MBDA is looking for a bigger say in the next-generation of European fighters with advanced concepts that could arm them.

The service quietly slashed the budget for the Next-Generation Air Dominance program by 50% amid a shift to a new development strategy.

The U.S. Air Force has conducted the first captive carry test flight of the DARPA-Air Force Research Laboratory-developed Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) hypersonic demonstrator.

NASA’s Ames Research Center predicts the next solar cycle, beginning in 2020 and reaching its max point in 2025, will be the weakest in the last 200 years.

The House Armed Services Committee unanimously adopted establishing a sixth armed service by a voice vote June 13 after debating for less than an hour.