Aerospace & Defense

As the world’s largest aircraft component manufacturers tie up, plane makers look to tap the lucrative businesses of making, selling and servicing parts.

Israel launched airstrikes on a Syrian military compound in what former Israeli officials said was an attack meant to thwart military threats from Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.

Pyongyang’s recent weapons tests are a reminder of a conundrum: How has the nation advanced in arms despite international efforts to keep expertise out of its hands? The answer may lie in students it sends abroad.

Some industry officials are concerned FAA’s already delayed initiatives to open up more airspace for booming drone applications may face further complications.

Boeing threatened to drop some of its contracts with United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, whose planned combination could undermine the aircraft maker’s efforts to cut costs and its nascent maintenance business.

United Technologies’ deal to buy Rockwell Collins will create an airplane parts supermarket. Benefits to shareholders aren’t clear.

United Technologies reached a deal to buy airplane-parts maker Rockwell Collins for $23 billion, in the biggest aerospace deal in history.

For drone users, Hurricane Harvey is likely to be the event that propelled unmanned aircraft to become an integral part of government and corporate disaster-recovery efforts.

North Korea is making preparations for the possible launch of another intercontinental ballistic missile, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said, one day after Pyongyang detonated its most powerful nuclear device.

Investors moved into haven assets and sold stocks following North Korea’s largest-ever nuclear test, prompting President Trump to denounce the country as a hostile rogue nation.

Technical and funding challenges will force the Pentagon to rely on Russian-manufactured rocket engines at least through the middle of the next decade, several years longer than originally anticipated.

The U.S. sent four of its most advanced fighter jets and a pair of B-1B bombers over the Korean Peninsula, alongside Japanese and South Korean jets, as a show of force in direct response to North Korea firing a missile over Japan.

Property insurers are preparing to fly dozens of drones over homes and businesses to assess damage in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey, the first widespread use of unmanned aircraft to size up catastrophe claims.

Protests against the installation in South Korea of ‘Thaad’ antimissile launchers have died down following North Korea’s recent testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

North Korea’s missile launch over Japan has begun to bolster efforts by Tokyo and South Korea to upgrade their missile defenses, though such moves would anger China and Russia and complicate international coordination in tackling the threat from Pyongyang.

United Technologies is nearing a deal to buy Rockwell Collins for more than $20 billion, a tie-up that would create one of the world’s biggest aircraft-equipment makers.

Accepting a nuclear North Korea probably means a nuclear Japan.

U.S. stocks recovered after North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile over Japan rattled global markets. The S&P 500 added 0.1%.