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New five-blade rotor comes from Airbus’ Bluecopter technology demonstrator.

Acknowledging the reusable rocket technology pioneered by SpaceX and Blue Origin, the U.S. Air Force has dropped the word “expendable” from the name of its orbital launch services acquisition program.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense is likely to move ahead with an attack helicopter acquisition in 2019, even though the program was left out of a five-year procurement plan published in December, an industry source says.

Electronic technical logs are becoming increasingly common but concerns persist over big data exploitation.