Defense

By Tony Osborne
France wants to buy 169 H160M Guepards for the air force, army and navy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
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.
Defense

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

By Mark Carreau
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.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
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.
Defense

By Graham Warwick, Lee Hudson
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.
Defense

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

By Guy Norris
Airbus is evaluating an energy-saving, passively controlled engine nacelle cooling system.
Defense

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

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

By Irene Klotz
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.
Defense

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

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.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
After at least six years of research and technology work on the Avionics 2020 demonstrator, Thales’ efforts toward creating a more intuitive cockpit have crystallized into the FlytX avionics suite.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission rover is logging favorable budget and developmental milestones as it marches toward a July/August 2020 launch.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
Thailand has contracted Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) to upgrade four T-50-family trainer-attack aircraft to the light-attack standard, including radar.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Poland has made a formal request to buy up to 32 Lockheed Martin F-35A Joint Strike Fighters, the country’s defense minister, Mariusz Błaszczak, has confirmed.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Airbus says it has received a “surprisingly” large response to its contest challenging computing experts, academics and professionals to solve five key flight physics questions using quantum computing to improve aircraft design.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio, Joe Anselmo, Michael Bruno
Leanne Caret discusses how synergy of Boeing's commercial, services and defense divisions have helped the company save on estimated life-cycle costs.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
France is accelerating its procurement of a joint fleet of helicopters based on Airbus H160 twin-engine medium rotorcraft.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Honeywell International is mulling further divestitures or changes to its business portfolio, the conglomerate’s top executive said May 20.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Lawmakers are saying defense contractors may make too much profit and that federal contractors should turn over their price and cost data.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
The LEO Knight robotic microsatellite would support in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
In a May 23 memo to employees, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said aerospace executive Mark Sirangelo left after Congress nixed plans for an agency reorganization that would have created a Moon-to-Mars Mission Directorate.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
Ruag is diversifying its space equipment business into thermal insulation for launcher engines, in addition to thermal insulation for satellites.
Defense