Defying a potential threat of punitive measures by the U.S., India has signed a $5.43 billion contract with Russia to buy five advanced S-400 air defense systems.
Japan has decided to develop a new fighter, preferably with a foreign partner, rejecting the alternative of buying aircraft of existing but improved designs from British or U.S. companies, the Mainichi newspaper said.
Following a successful 17-hr. mission of the Mascot rover on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, France and Germany have agreed to send a follow-on spacecraft to Phobos, a Martian moon.
Low bids propped up by its commercial airplane business helped Boeing snare $25 billion in military contracts including the T-X, MQ-25 and MH-139 competitions. But could the OEM’s strategy backfire in the long run? Aviation Week editors and Teal Group’s Richard Aboulafia break it down.
The Pentagon will make “selective” investments and promises a new era of close cooperation with defense contractors as part of an emerging response to President Donald Trump’s executive order to study ways to bolster the defense industrial base.
The Bell 412EPI is back in contention for a Philippine requirement for 16 helicopters, despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s politically driven cancellation of an order for the type in February.
A no-deal Brexit would “significantly disrupt trade” and negatively affect smaller, less diversified companies, analysis of the aerospace and defense industry by credit ratings agency Moody’s has suggested.
Raytheon and a team of Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace will compete to make a mission payload for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation missile warning satellite constellation.
Lebanon and Kenya have helped to bolster the order book of MD Helicopters with purchases of armed versions of the company’s MD530 single-engine light helicopter.
Arlington Capital Partners and Smiths Group have reached a definitive agreement for the latter to buy United Flexible, an Illinois-based parts provider for PW1000G and F135 engines and the Airbus A320neo, for $345 million.
Chinese space group Casc plans to begin a commercial orbit-and-recovery service in 2019, with about 15 more launches planned in the following six years.
Extant Aerospace has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets and tech data rights from the operations of NavCom Defense Electronics.
India’s national space agency will test fly its first small rocket, the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, in the first half of 2019, a senior space scientist says.
