General Atomics says its formidable aircraft design, industry team and institutional agility will help it snatch MQ-25 Stingray from Lockheed Martin and Boeing....More
Uniquely positioned after completing a preliminary design for NASA, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works was the only bidder to build the low-boom flight demonstrator, but NASA praises the quality of its bid....More
Protecting against lightning; connecting IoT via space; supercapacitors for energy storage; Flexible ultrasonic sensor; drone concerns in New Zealand....More
The director of the Navy’s F-35C integration office sees no “showstoppers,” but challenges remain before the service can field the fighter operationally....More
Air Force not committing to F-15C EW upgrade; Chile to receive Black Hawks; Intel chief watching for new ASAT weapons, and Boeing to deliver C-17 to India....More
U.S. Air Force mulls bids to ensure at least two commercially viable orbital space transport systems from 2022. Rockets with Russian engines need not apply....More
ULA CEO Tony Bruno has bold claims for the company’s space propulsion module, which starts off as an upper stage on ULA’s planned Vulcan rocket....More
Safran’s success in ground-testing a counter-rotating open rotor engine is not enough for Airbus, which sees the concept as one option among others....More
Demand for business aircraft from China is improving, five years after an anti-corruption campaign discouraged billionaires from showing off wealth....More
Understanding China’s political realities can help predict where demand for commercial aircraft is going better than just relying on standard economic analysis....More
Readers discuss U.S. Air Force purchase of ULA rockets, smallest debris risk, USAF's Joint-Stars choices and efficacy of UAS for firefighting missions....More
