Aviation defence industry technology
DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program
DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program envisions future small-unit infantry forces using swarms comprising upwards of 250 unmanne...
Russia upgrades Su-25 assault jets - part 2
The overhaul and upgrade of Su-25 assault jets accomplished by the enterprises of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) extend their life cycle and...
Russia upgrades Su-25 assault jets - part 1
The overhaul and upgrade of Su-25 assault jets accomplished by the enterprises of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) extend their life cycle and...
Russia and USA lead in hypersonic technologies
US national security adviser John Bolton accused Russia of stealing hypersonic technologies. He claimed the Russian hypersonic designs are based on...
Russia and US develop new strategic bomber projects - part 2
Building specialised machines for use of one particular type of munition, as during the cold war, is way too costly today. So the possibility of us...
Russia and US develop new strategic bomber projects - part 1
Russia and the US have almost simultaneously started to develop new strategic bombers projects.
NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology
The pilot of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, aircraft will navigate the skies in a cockpit unlike any other. There won’t be a...
Suggested Su-57 production pace looks realistic
The Russian Aerospace Forces are to be reinforced. Su-57 fighter jets of the fifth-generation will be procured in a major series, the Vzglyad busin...
MAGMA UAV demonstrates innovative flow control technologies
In a series of flight trials that took place in the skies above north-west Wales, the MAGMA unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) demonstrated two innovati...
Robot swarms to transform US Army aviation
In future combat, US Army units may deploy a large unmanned aerial system that can serve as a mothership capable of unleashing swarms of autonomous...
Simultaneous optical and thermal tracking of airborne aircraft by Specialised Imaging
Specialised Imaging reports on how its Lightweight Optical Motion Analysis (LOMA) system has been used to optically track an aircraft for several k...
USA: Shark skin studied to make faster aircraft
Scientists have recorded mako sharks swimming at speeds of 95km/h but it is estimated they can reach 130km/h, thanks to a host of evolutionary adap...
Virtual cockpit for UK military’s new high-G centrifuge
Military aircraft pilots will be able to “fly” a virtual fast jet while experiencing high levels of G-force, with the help of a new training centri...
US Army : Electronic flight bag for the combat aviation brigade
The 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade has migrated from paper Flight Bag to Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs), which will streamline the air...
F-35B could hit service life limit by 2026
The F-35A aircraft seems unaffected but another bad surprise to the F-35 program has been discovered, hopefully without impact on the Belgian fleet...
Chinese J-20 variant may be fist two-seat stealth fighter jet
China's most advanced stealth fighter jet J-20 could be developed into a bomber, electronic warfare (EW) aircraft and a carrier-based variant, Chin...
DARPA's Gremlins program on Track for first Demonstration Flights in 2019
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is progressing toward its plan to demonstrate airborne launch and recovery of multiple unm...
USAF F-16 SLEP program reaches milestone as first aircraft rolls off shop floor
The US Air Force's Ogden Air Logistics Complex reached a major milestone in extending the life of one of the service’s most tested and flown multi-...
China building new wind tunnel for hypersonic aircraft development
China is building a world-leading hypersonic wind tunnel to test hypersonic aircraft that can travel at speeds of Mach 25 (30,627kph), media report...
DARPA's new ViSAR radar system completes flight tests campaign
DARPA's new ViSAR radar system completes flight tests campaign
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Age...