Bell has demonstrated its Hydra distributed-propulsion vertical-takeoff-and-landing testbed at Canada’s Unmanned Aircraft System Center of Excellence in Alma, Quebec.
The Indian air force has test-fired the indigenous Astra beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile as part of a sequence of trials leading up to the system’s induction into the military.
New Pentagon undersecretary of defense for research and engineering says the U.S.’s real work of developing hypervelocity weapons systems is just beginning.
Technology needs to be proven carefully, but the service should not risk losing funds budgeted for a multidomain command-and-control system of networks.
House lawmakers who favor establishing a U.S. Space Corps within the U.S. Air Force are dismissing Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson’s memo that cited a $12.9 billion initial cost estimate to establish a separate Space Force service.
The U.S. Marine Corps has conducted the first-ever combat strike with Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning IIs in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in Afghanistan, the service says.
Airbus has demonstrated manned-unmanned teaming (MUT) between aircraft in flight trials involving five target drones controlled by a mission commander on a manned command-and-control aircraft.
F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin has awarded Harris Corporation a contract to supply the next Integrated Core Processor (ICP) for the fifth-generation fighter under a follow-on modernization phase.
United Technologies appears unlikely to make its own end-of-September deadline for closing the roughly $30 billion acquisition of avionics and cabin interiors giant Rockwell Collins.
With the Pentagon’s top research and engineering officials rattling lecterns to focus U.S. industry’s attention on providing more hypersonic weapons and defenses against purported Russian and Chinese advances, companies such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Aerojet Rocketdyne and others are positioning to be players in the market.
The Philippine Navy’s two Leonardo AW159 Wildcat multirole helicopters will be armed with the LIG Nex1 Blue Shark lightweight torpedo as its main anti-submarine weapon, the South Korean company says.
The Philippine Coast Guard has placed an order for an Airbus H145 helicopter, making it the first government customer of the rotorcraft in the country.
India has developed an underwater drone capable of sending real-time video of ships and underwater structures to assist in a wide range of operations in rescue and defense.
The mood at the AIAA Spaceplanes and Hypersonics conference was bullish amid growing investment in space infrastructure and hypersonic development. Listen in as our editors discuss their findings.
Politics ensnares India’s Rafale purchase; Israel’s "special tactics" in Syria; Pilatus PC-21 reports to French Air Force; U.S. Marines to buy shipboard UAVs.
