Defense

A photo being circulated on the Russian internet reveals the design of a new Russian Minoga maritime helicopter.

House Armed Services lawmakers are concerned the U.S. Air Force is not doing due diligence in setting requirements.

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.

The U.S. is permitting Vietnam to buy six Insitu ScanEagle drones worth $9.7 million, a sign of strengthening security ties with Washington.

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 selection process will take up to 14 months, after which the candidates will go through basic training in India and advanced training abroad.

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.

NASA has tapped three startups to fly up to 23 science experiments and technology demonstrations to the surface of the Moon starting in July 2021.

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.

Chunks of the nozzle blasted away from the motor, a webcast of the static engine firing in Utah showed.

The budget squeeze also means procurement of maritime patrollers, light attack aircraft and long-range drones will be delayed for at least two years.

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.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking more responsive and disruptive spacecraft technologies in low Earth orbit.

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.