French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says his country likely doubled its arms exports in 2015 to €16 billion, thanks in part to sales of Dassault Aviation’s Rafale combat jet to Egypt and Qatar last year.
Japanese engineers are preparing to build a combat-engine core, following progress in materials research for the low-bypass turbofan, intended for the country’s next fighter, the F-3.
NASA’s Juno mission spacecraft, on course to maneuver into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, has become the most distant solar-powered spacecraft ever, according to an update from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency claims the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) report into the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 contains “unsubstantiated and inaccurate” conclusions.
The chairman of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee says he is “disturbed at rumors” that the Obama administration might reduce the level of defense spending that Congress and the White House agreed to in a two-year budget deal late last year.
NATO’s long-running program to field a ground surveillance capability is a step closer as Northrop Grumman begins integrating the radar sensor on to the first of five RQ-4B Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft for the alliance.
In their quest to make the U.S. Navy surface force more lethal and dispersed, the service brass wants to get better use of its existing missile inventory, beefing up the weapons with new sensors and payloads.
Pratt & Whitney will deliver the 1,313th and final production F117-100 engine to the U.S. Air Force for its Boeing C-17 airlifter fleet later this month.
The French defense ministry has launched a program to modernize its SAMP/T air defense system, notably with the development of the new Aster B1NT missile.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) railgun projectiles were fired from the company’s Blizter prototype railgun weapon during recent tests at the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.
NASA’s Glenn Research Center has the capacity to test advanced solar electric propulsion systems powerful enough to move cargo and habitats to Mars, with spin-offs that can improve the commercial satellite industry’s capabilities.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are planning a Jan. 15 spacewalk to restore the outpost’s solar power generation to full capacity and further efforts to establish a pair of docking ports for use by future U.S. commercial astronaut transportation providers Boeing and SpaceX.
Engineers at German Aerospace Center DLR attempted to contact the Rosetta mission’s Philae lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Jan. 10 in an effort to switch on the probe’s momentum wheel and change its position.
German Aerospace Center DLR and the European Space Agency are evaluating the cost of continuing support for the International Space Station beyond the end of the decade.
Korea Aerospace Industries will hold the system requirement review for the KF-X fighter program this month, kicking off full-scale development of the indigenous combat aircraft.
