Defense

Aviation Week editors discuss Boeing’s T-X pitch and past record of delivering on the major programs.

Sweden’s plans to retain the older-model Gripen could extend the aircraft’s time on the export market.

U.S. President Donald Trump bypasses Congress and clears arms sales to the Middle East, declaring it an emergency.

GE Aviation expects to resume work on a new 3,000shp turboshaft engine for U.S. Army helicopters after a U.S. government watchdog agency rejected a competitor’s protest over the contract award.

NASA has yet to get a handle on managing costs and schedules of its major programs, congressional auditors say.

CAE’s objective is to be ready for potential orders by the U.S. Navy and other customers for a passive submarine-hunting sensor.

Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio will host the Lockheed Martin F-35 Hybrid Product Support Integrator organization, which is integral to the fighter aircraft’s sustainment.

Japan's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission successfully dropped a second target marker near an impact site on the surface of Ryugu.

The upcoming Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) is the first step in a broad expansion planned for Canada’s space surveillance capabilities.

The Russian Defense Ministry has postponed a new order for 114 Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopters until 2020 while it develops an upgraded Ka-52M variant.

Inmarsat on May 30 announced a contract with Airbus Defense and Space to acquire three new-generation Global Xpress atellites.

Five reasons why combat aircraft production is surging.

France wants to buy 169 H160M Guepards for the air force, army and navy.

Boeing and Saab are concerned about the Canadian government's decision to re-write a draft tender for 88 fighters to ensure Lockheed Martin's F-35 can participate.

Generous early funding and strong congressional support have not guaranteed the future of a pair of proposed missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin kicked off a maintenance spacewalk at the International Space Station with a tribute to the world’s first spacewalker.

The greenfield facility in Gyula—close to the border with Romania—will produce precision metallic parts for the dynamic systems of helicopters spanning the complete Airbus product range.

DARPA has ended investment in the Ares program to develop an advanced vertical-lift unmanned aircraft system, but efforts and under way to find funds to get the unique vehicle into the air.

The Israeli Defense Ministry strongly opposes allowing a Chinese company to build a desalination plant near an Israeli Air Force base.

Airbus is evaluating an energy-saving, passively controlled engine nacelle cooling system.

The Kamov Ka-52 ‘Nile Crocodile’ helicopter has officially entered service with the Egyptian Air Force. Jon Lake reports.

NATO and non-NATO forces are training together near the Arctic Circle to tackle near-peer threats.

On May 24, amateur astronomers spotted the Starlink train of satellites glistening in reflected sunlight as they circled overhead, sparking concerns about interference with ground-based astronomical observations.

Russian Helicopters has unveiled the modernization package for the coaxial Kamov Ka-32 utility helicopter.

India has test-fired the latest version of its Akash surface-to-air missile system, the Akash Mk. 1S, with two tests conducted over several days.