Saab’s beastly-looking anti-ship cruise missile, the RBS15, is to be upgraded and installed on Sweden’s new E-series JAS 39 Gripen and Visby-class corvette.
Australia will increase military spending by 5.6% for the coming fiscal year as it targets a defense budget of 2% of gross domestic product within four years.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) this September will hold the first of what officials hope will be a yearly event concerning small UAS.
As Saab prepares to fly its newest JAS 39 Gripen E-series aircraft some time in the next couple of months, the company still is waging determined international sales campaigns for its in-production C/D model.
Airbus has formed a U.S.-based company, called Airbus Aerial, to bring together commercial satellite and unmanned aircraft remote sensing to provide data collection and image processing services to large and global enterprise customers.
A year after forming a commercial business unit in a bid to expand out of its core defense market, unmanned aircraft manufacturer Insitu has unveiled a revamped suite of remote-sensing and information-processing services.
Logos Technologies’s Redkite sensor has captured and streamed wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) to multiple handheld devices in flight tests on Insitu’s Integrator tactical unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
NASA shipped payload module for James Webb Space Telescope from Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, to Johnson Space Center, TX, May 8 for final tests prior to 2018 launch. BOEING has $143.4m U.S. Army foreign military sales contract for a directed change for Saudi Arabia National Guard II and III unique modifications to 24 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters. Work to be complete April 1, 2022.
Tuesday morning the Senate Armed Services Committee will discuss the state of U.S. Cyber Command with its chief, U.S. Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, who also serves as director of the National Security Agency. That afternoon the same committee considers three Pentagon nominations—David Norquist to be the next Pentagon comptroller, Elaine McCusker to be Norquist’s deputy, and Robert Daigle to head the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation group.
The Swedish Air Force has little interest in any of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation T-X trainer candidates except the Boeing/Saab offer, but is not ready to rule them in or out as potential SK 60 replacements.
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force recently demonstrated that the stealthy F-22 Raptor can securely communicate with the F-15C and other legacy aircraft in real-time over an advanced networking pod.
Rolls-Royce and Turkish engineering firm Kale Group are to establish a joint venture which will initially develop an engine for Turkey’s indigenous fighter, the TF-X.
Lockheed Martin’s Procerus Technologies has introduced an all-weather, military-grade Indago 3 version of its commercial small unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
Airbus has carried out its first aerial refueling contacts using an automated system, a test which could pave the way for automatic refueling of receiver aircraft.
Turkey’s Aselsan has begun development of an indigenous active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar likely to become the primary sensor of the country’s future fighter.
Turkey’s Tubitak Sage research institute has unveiled a family of air-to-air missiles which could go onto equip the country’s future indigenous fighter, the TF-X.
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AIRBUS has French defense procurement agency contract for preparatory studies and definition work for future ground segment of the Syracuse IV satellite-based military telecommunications system, construction of which is scheduled to begin in 2018. BOEING added sixth KC-46 tanker aircraft to the test program, the second low-rate initial production aircraft, which completed first flight April 29.
