U.S. Strategic Command detected and tracked what it assessed were two North Korean missile launches from Wonsan at 10:56 a.m. and 1:03 p.m. Hawaii time June 21.
Space-launch startups Blue Origin and SpaceX continue to take advantage of their owners’ deep pockets to advance the state of the art in reusable vehicles, with back-to-back test attempts over the past week to recover launchers after they had delivered payloads to suborbital space.
Lockheed Martin aims to deliver the latest version of the F-35’s critical logistics system to the U.S. Air Force by the end of November, a new target that leaves little room for error before the end-of-year deadline for the service to declare the jet operational.
The road to F-35A initial operational capability (IOC) has been long and fraught with technical glitches. But 15 years after Lockheed Martin won the Joint Strike Fighter contract, the U.S. Air Force’s first Lightning II combat squadron says it is almost ready for war.
Discoveries of two very large planets close to their distant young stars are informing still-maturing theories about how and when planetary bodies in solar systems like ours arrange themselves.
Bombardier has agreed to sell its Amphibious Aircraft operations to Victoria, British Columbia-based Viking Air, which in 2005 took over ownership and support of former all de Havilland Canada (DHC) types from the Canadian aircraft manufacturer.
As U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter touts America's relationships with its allies, pundits wonder how the upcoming presidential election could change those relationships.
Japan’s defense ministry is requesting information for its next fighter program, taking an early step toward an acquisition that will shape the country’s air force in the middle of the century and perhaps result in a domestic development effort.
Treating land-based missile defense in a completely different way could alter the character of military strategy in the Asia-Pacific and certain other important global theaters, according to recent studies by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA).
AEROJET ROCKETDYNE achieved full-power during pre-burner test series of AR1 engine (RD-180 replacement) at NASA’s Stennis Space Center earlier this month. FINCANTIERI signed €4b ($4.5b) contract with Qatar for construction of four corvettes over 100 meters in length, one amphibious vessel, two patrol vessels, plus 15 years of support. Construction in Italian shipyards to begin in 2018 and last six years.
Elon Musk is getting some competition on the public stage from fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos and his formerly secretive Blue Origin spaceflight company. On June 15, the Amazon founder pre-empted the latest SpaceX launch with a broadcast e-mail on Blue’s progress with the big BE-4 rocket engine. “We’re making multiple copies of the BE-4 to take us through our development campaign, along with a healthy amount of hardware spares to mitigate schedule and technical risks encountered along the way—a ‘hardware rich’ approach to development,” Bezos wrote.
Raytheon says it has developed a formidable weapon for countering UAV swarms based around a high-power magnetron that can emit enough microwave energy to clear an area in the sky the size of a football field with one pulse.
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High-profile investment advisors are beginning to weigh in on which U.S. presidential candidate would be better for the aerospace and defense industries.
Three U.S., U.K. and Russian astronauts departed the International Space Station (ISS) and descended to Earth aboard their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft early June 18, safely ending a 186-day mission to the orbiting science lab.
The outgoing U.S. Air Force chief of staff has called for a “flying artillery” aircraft to replace the Fairchild Republic A-10 Warthog, as his successor distances himself from any arrangements to retire the aging close air support (CAS) platform “in the near-term.”
The first temporary detachment of U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack aircraft arrived at Clark Air Base earlier this month for training with Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) FA-50 aircraft pilots, the Navy says.
Airbus Defense and Space has conducted wind tunnel testing on an extended length refueling hose which the company hopes can solve the A400M’s helicopter refueling woes.
India has eased limits on foreign direct investment (FDI) in defense joint ventures, with the aim of enticing international defense contractors to manufacture equipment in the country.
Surveillance service provider MAG Aerospace has flight tested Logos Technologies’ Redkite wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system on a Cessna 206 Caravan as a step toward offering the ability to monitor a city-sized area as a turnkey service.
