Virgin Orbit could begin conducting horizontal space launch services from mainland UK in the early 2020s with the support of start-up funding from the UK Space Agency and local authorities in Cornwall.
House authorizers propose fencing 25% of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment’s budget until the Pentagon presents a plan to rectify problems in the F-35 supply chain.
African air force commanders met with US Air Force and State Department leaders at the eighth annual Air Forces Africa (AFAFRICA) symposium in Morocco. Jon Lake reports.
French Air Chief of Staff Philippe Lavigne tells Aviation Week about how the A330 MRTT, MQ-9 UAV and PC-21 trainer are revolutionizing French operations.
The U.S. Air Force on May 31 completed the last and largest demonstration of a two-year program to integrate a long-range naval mine on a Boeing B-52H.
Republican members “fundamentally disagree” with policy decisions made in the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee mark and view it as a departure from bipartisan tradition.
A key House panel is authorizing economic order quantity for the Lockheed Martin F-35 in the hope of promoting cost savings for the fifth-generation fighter while requesting cost transparency for Block 4.
Two Aegis Ashore batteries will give ballistic-missile defense to Japan at 16% of the cost of destroyers performing the mission, figures from the Ministry of Defense show.
Retired longtime Rockwell executive George W. Jeffs, who was among the chief corporate architects of the U.S. space program throughout the Apollo and into the shuttle era, has died. He was 94.
The French Air Force plans to bolster its fighter, airlift and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities with a wave of new equipment.
A U.S. Army artillery battery will receive a transport-erector-launcher (TEL) for a hypersonic weapon in late fiscal 2021 and fire the weapon for the first time in 2022.
The U.S. Army is seeking sources for integrating the GE Aviation XT901 into the design for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Competitive Prototype (FARA-CP) program.
A senior Pentagon official cautions against restricting the Defense Department’s (DOD) reprogramming authority because it may make it difficult for the military to respond to a shifting security environment.
The unprecedented political crisis in Israel that has caused the country’s parliament to disperse only one month after being elected may delay billions of dollars in planned purchases of U.S. aircraft.
