Defense

An Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter jet crashed in western India on March 8 after a reported bird strike, a Ministry of Defense official says.

Although Boeing has similar objectives for the Airpower Teaming System unveiled in Australia, the XQ-58A is designed with a very different philosophy.

The Airpower Teaming System is a fighter-like unmanned aircraft specifically designed to be exportable globally.

Four members of Congress say the DOD bypassed normal procurement procedures to propose buying new F-15X fighters in the fiscal 2020 budget request.

An upgraded version of the GBU-69/B Small Glide Munition (SGM) used by U.S. Special Forces aircraft has emerged.

A week after Boeing unveiled a loyal wingman mockup in Australia, U.S. drone manufacturer Kratos completed the first flight of the XQ-58A Valkyrie.

A Japanese helicopter operator has entered an agreement with Leonardo Helicopters to examine the potential use of tiltrotors in Japan.

Has Airbus really lived up to its potential? And is the group healthy enough today to guarantee that it will still be around 50 years from now?

MD Helicopters will fight for FARA contract; India’s milsat plans; Israel’s customized F-35 upgrades, and the end of the line for U.S. Marine Corps Prowlers.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has prepared a list of Israeli-made weapons and other systems it wants the F-35 Adir to carry.

NASA’s Mars InSight lander has paused efforts to pry into the planet’s subsurface with the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) for about two weeks.

India will launch three defense satellites over the next six months aimed at boosting the strategic communications and networking potential of its military.

Boeing is laying groundwork for a possible sale of T-X trainers to Canberra, briefing the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on the type.

A US Air Force (USAF) notification, issued on September 20, revealed that Rwanda is to receive two new aircraft to be used for medical evacuation and light transport missions during international peacekeeping operations throughout Africa.

Having won an Australian armed-drone competition, General Atomics urges the customer to buy the latest MQ-9 version.

MD Helicopters has revealed it has entered the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) technology demonstration contest with a platform that will use the company’s NOTAR anti-torque system.

The U.S. should withhold F-35s from Turkey if the Eurasian member of NATO accepts delivery of an advanced Russian air defense system, the head of U.S. European Command told Congress March 5.

After two years away from operational service, including 18 months of overhaul and upgrade, the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier has left Toulon, France, for a wide-ranging mission.

Raytheon, now the second company on the TBG program after Lockheed Martin, has released a new artist’s impression of its concept.

Switzerland’s Kopter Group plans to carry out helicopter assembly in the U.S. by moving into a Louisiana facility originally built for Bell.

Organizers of the Farnborough Airshow have decided to halt its public weekend air show days.

Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) became House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee chairman in January, after serving as ranking member.

The U.S. Commerce Department will lead an investigation into whether titanium sponge imports into the U.S. threaten national security.

The JAXA Hayabusa 2 mission team thinks there is “high potential” that the first attempt at a sample collection from the surface of the near Earth asteroid Ryugu was successful.

Mars’ northern hemisphere was dotted with at least two dozen large craters that appear to have been filled by groundwater about 3 1/2 billion years ago, and possibly part of a global subsurface aquifer, according to observations gathered by Mars orbiters.