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Embraer [ERJ] successfully completed the first flight test of the new KC-390 military transport and aerial refueling jet, the company said on Feb. 3. Test pilots Mozart Louzada and Marcos […]

Sikorsky [UTX] is starting bladed ground testing for the S-97 Raider program, the company said on Feb. 4. The Raider is an armed reconnaissance rotorcraft designed to outmatch conventional military […]

Raytheon [RTN] on Jan. 26 said it has acquired Sensintel, a small Arizona-based firm that develops and produces small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for the intelligence and special operations markets. […]

The first of 15 EC135 T2+ training helicopters being produced by Airbus Helicopters for Australia completed its first test flight on Jan. 16, two months after signing the contract for […]

The Army’s fiscal year 2016 budget request acknowledges that it can’t have a ready force now and invest in future warfighting systems given the tight budget environment, so the service […]

Japan has announced that it plans to buy E-2D early warning and command and control aircraft and the Global Hawk for intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions as part of an […]

The Army is pursuing a multi-year deal with Boeing [BA] to procure between 240 and 450 AH-64E Echo variant Apache helicopters that could be worth between $5 billion and $10 […]

NASA delays the launch of NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) launch, this time until Jan. 31, pending completion of minor repairs to the vehicle prior to launch. Launch provider […]

Boeing [BA] and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. laid out on Jan. 26 their timelines for delivering astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017 as part of NASA’s Commercial […]

The Air Force and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) said Jan. 23 they reached agreement on a path forward in the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) dispute between the two […]