Boeing’s comments come as the Pentagon is in the midst of a cost and capability analysis between the F/A-18 and F-35, ordered by the White House, that will inform future budgets and force structure decisions.
The European Commission is leading slow changes to ownership-and-control rules that would enable foreign investors to have more say in acquired airlines.
By 2023, Turkey’s centenary, President Tayyip Edogan wants the nation’s aerospace industry to fly its indigenous TF-X fighter. But the new fighter is just the one example, as Turkey is developing a trainer/light attack aircraft, UAVs, missiles, helicopters and a gallium-nitride-based AESA radar.
Aegis Ashore batteries would add an outer layer to Japan’s ballistic-missile defense. Tomahawks on destroyers could hit Pyongyang’s weapons before launch.
A range of 5,500 km would reach the western edge of Alaska and would cover all of East Asia, including the far west of China, with Australia just out of reach
Safran Aircraft Engines CEO Olivier Andries stresses the LP turbine’s design is not at stake and describes the situation as a “temporary logistic disturbance.”
Tailsitter and tilting ducted fan VTOL concepts join the chase for the Marine Corps’ emerging requirement for a large, ship-based multimission unmanned system.
India’s Light Combat Aircraft demonstrates missile integration, Israel’s Air Force replaces Sea Scan patrol aircraft with Heron UAVs, a longer-range loitering UAV, and U.S. approves more Patriot missiles for UAE.
Leanne Caret, president of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, discusses the revival of fighter programs, the state of play on the KC-46A tanker, the importance of T-X and more.
Don’t count on a big defense spending increase this year; report finds SLS NASA’s deadline rush cost millions, and the fight over air traffic control continues.
From the big rockets for human spaceflight to the swarms of tiny cubesats revolutionizing data and bandwidth, the space economy is making a name for itself.
Although rare, the split-elevator scenario in the ATR 42 and 72 can overstress the aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer due to a newly uncovered control system phenomenon.
The six-metric-ton T625 is the result of Turkish program launched in 2013 to locally produce a rotorcraft that could replace hundreds of aging UH-1 Hueys.
