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Modular, Adjustable: A Test Plane for Any Occasion

Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)

Looking to make a plane that was able to take off and land at airports with shorter runways, in the mid-2000s NASA began experimenting with the circulation cont...

NASA highlights research in X-Planes and more at Aviation 2016

Jun 13, 2016 (SPX)

NASA's leadership and top aeronautics innovators will discuss the agency's 10-year plan to transform aviation at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astro...

Ukroboronprom announces new aircraft corporation

Jun 10, 2016 (UPI)

Ukroboronprom announced Friday the creation of the Ukrainian Aircraft Corp., a consolidation the company says is the first example of reform in Ukraine's defens...

Danish parliament approves F-35 buy

Jun 09, 2016 (UPI)

Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II has been approved for acquisition by the Danish parliament to replace the country's F-16 aircraft, the Ministry of Defense r...

Nigeria hoping for U.S. approval of Super Tucano sale

Jun 09, 2016 (UPI)

The Nigerian air force is hoping the United States may soon approve the sale of EMB-314 Super Tucano aircraft to the country. Capt. Ayodele Famuyiwa said in a s...

US military to show off its F-35 fighter in Farnborough

Jun 09, 2016 (AFP)

After years of delays, technical problems and massive cost overruns, the most expensive warplane in history is finally about to make its international public fl...

First AH-64 Apache Guardian arrives in South Korea for army

Jun 08, 2016 (UPI)

The first of 30 Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters have arrived in South Korea for delivery to the South Korean Army. The Ministry of Defense said...

Mass Production: China to Build 1,000 220-Ton Planes

Jun 08, 2016 (Sputnik)

As part of its military boost, China plans to increase its fleet of heavy strategic transport aircraft. In January, the China Daily reported that the People's L...

Canada PM Trudeau shows doubts on F-35 fighter jet

Jun 07, 2016 (AFP)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed doubts Tuesday about the reliability of the US F-35 stealth fighter, as the government looks to replace its agi...

Exelis gets Navy contract for fighter jet jammer

Jun 07, 2016 (UPI)

Exelis has received a $12.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-reimbursable, indefinite-delivery-indefinite quantity contract for work on the Advanced Self-Prote...

American Systems providing Air Force test and evaluation services

Jun 06, 2016 (UPI)

The U.S. Air Force has contracted American Systems to provide operational test and evaluation services related to fighter systems and programs. The award, issue...

Harris Completes Production of All Aireon ADS-B Hosted Payloads

Jun 03, 2016 (SPX)

Aireon has announced that Harris Corporation finished production on all Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) 1090 Extended Squitter receiver paylo...

Liebherr to supply air system for Antonov AN-132D

Jun 03, 2016 (UPI)

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS of France will supply the integrated air management system for Ukrainian manufacturer Anotov's new AN-132D aircraft, the Ukrobor...

Portugal to modernize its C-130H transports

Jun 02, 2016 (UPI)

The contracting process for modernizing C-130H transports of the Portuguese Air Force has been authorized by Minister of National Defense José Alberto Azeredo ...

Lockheed Martin flies T-50A

Jun 02, 2016 (UPI)

Lockheed Martin has conducted an initial flight test of its T-50A jet aircraft, which it is offering the Air Force in the Advanced Pilot Training competition. T...

L-3 gets $1.9 billion KC-10 Extender contract

Jun 02, 2016 (UPI)

L-3 Communications, Vertex Aerospace LLC was awarded a $1.9 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity U.S. Air Force contract for KC-10 airframe contracto...

Boeing JDAM contract nearly doubled due to 'warfighter demand'

Jun 01, 2016 (UPI)

Boeing Defense Space and Security has been awarded a not-to-exceed $3.2 billion fixed-price, incentive-firm, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract m...

Sikorsky commercial helo takes autonomous flight

Jun 01, 2016 (UPI)

A Sikorsky S-76 commercial helicopter has performed a 30-mile autonomous flight as part of a U.S. military project. The flight -- from Sikorsky's facility in St...

USAF production decision on KC-46 delayed

May 31, 2016 (UPI)

The official U.S. Air Force production decision for the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker has been delayed because of a refueling boom loads issue. Boeing said the ...

Airbus concedes some A400M problems are 'home-made'

May 29, 2016 (AFP)

Airbus chief Tom Enders conceded in a newspaper interview Sunday that some of the "massive problems" dogging the European airplane manufacturer's new military t...