Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)

By Jens Flottau
MHI RJ Aviation Group (MHIRJ) and Maeve Aerospace are teaming up for the development of Maeve’s planned M80 80-seat hybrid-electric regional aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Japan successfully launched an X-band communications satellite using the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H3 rocket.
Operations & Safety

By Chen Chuanren
MHI has begun developing collaborative combat aircraft which it hopes to mass produce by leveraging Mitsubishi's strong automobile industrial capability.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Industry efforts are underway to address shortfalls in recruiting and training aviation maintenance technicians.
Workforce & Training

By Robert Wall
European satellite operator Eutelsat has signed a first agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to use the Japanese company’s new H3 rocket.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
From trainers to missiles, Japan is putting money behind efforts to build a military with more punch.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The Japanese companies will explore potential collaborations in areas including maintenance, parts supply and refurbishment.
MRO

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The company’s Bay of Excellence initiative blends “the Japanese continuous improvement mindset and American and Canadian ingenuity.”
Workforce & Training

By Tony Osborne, Robert Wall
Roberto Cingolani wants his company to play a greater role in the global aerostructures business and shape the development of new-generation combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Japan and the U.S. are exploring co-production opportunities to address production capacity shortfalls on some key munitions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Despite the upcoming UK defense review, Global Combat Air Program industrial partners have been encouraged by ministerial interest in the project at Farnborough.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Industrial partners in the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) are set to display a new model of the latest proposed configuration of the crewed combat aircraft.
Farnborough Airshow

By Tony Osborne
Despite obvious historic parallels with the TSR-2, industry partners are confident they can deliver a new-generation combat aircraft in the mid-2030s.
GASCC & RIAT

By Chen Chuanren
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) believes Japan should hold off on developing a domestically designed commercial aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and IHI Corporation could maintain U.S. Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16s and Boeing F-15s based in Japan.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Aircraft and component OEMs are starting to expand service offerings beyond their own product lines to capture greater market opportunities.
MRO

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
In response to growing MRO demand, MHIRJ is launching new initiatives related to supply chain, workforce and artificial intelligence.
MRO

By Chen Chuanren
A year after scrapping the SpaceJet program, Japan is revisiting plans to develop its own airliner—this time powered by hydrogen.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Senior BAE Systems executives hope to finalize negotiations on work share, work allocation and work locations for the trinational Global Combat Air Program by the summer.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
An agency of Italy, Japan and the UK will run the Global Combat Air Program, supported by a yet-to-be formed industrial joint venture.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Italy, Japan and the UK's Global Combat Air Program developing a sixth-generation crewed combat aircraft will be headquartered in London, the nations say.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Industry partners in the three-nation Global Combat Air Program have reached a further collaboration agreement.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Propulsion developer ZeroAvia and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Regional Jet Aviation completed a study that identified an initial CRJ700 retrofit entry point.
Paris Air Show

By Graham Warwick
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are building prototypes of an air-cooled, 1-megawatt electric motor with high specific power.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
Lockheed’s tanker engine choice; Iran claims it has hypersonic missile; Japan awards warship contract; Poland’s first FA-50.
Aircraft & Propulsion