A proposed South Korean air and missile defense system comparable with the Lockheed Martin Thaad will employ a large trailer-mounted radar with an active electronically scanning array radar.
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has named retired U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to be the first deputy assistant secretary of the navy (DASN) for unmanned systems.
U.S. Navy officials have made it clear they expect to rely on the Growlers more, even as the F-35C carrier-variant Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) come on line.
A U.S. guided missile destroyer has passed within 12 nm of Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly Islands, which are under dispute by China and its neighbors.
Controllers operating the New Horizons Pluto probe have confirmed that the nuclear-powered spacecraft completed the second of four maneuvers designed to take it past a lone Kuiper Belt Object at the beginning of 2019.
A proposed South Korean air and missile defense system comparable with the Lockheed Martin Thaad will employ a large trailer-mounted radar with an active, electronically scanning array.
The Cassini spacecraft is prepared to make its most detailed measurements yet of the curtain-like ice sprays from the south pole of the Saturn moon Enceladus.
“The launch target for GSLV-Mk. 3 is December 2016. That will be followed with a second launch in December 2017,” says A.S. Kiran Kumar, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization.
NASA’s congressional overseers have questioned the relevance of both the asteroid capture and astronaut rendezvous to the agency’s ultimate objective of reaching the Martian environs with human explorers in the 2030s.
SIERRA NEVADA has U.S. Special Operations Command award for next phase of development for Degraded Visual Environment Pilotage System (DVEPS) using real-time, high-resolution fused imagery of terrain and obstacles to help pilots. LOCKHEED MARTIN has $176.1m in U.S. Air Force contracts for Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod-Sensor Enhancement (ATP-SE) production and kits to convert Sniper ATPs to ATP-SE configuration. Deliveries will begin in 4Q 2016.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced fiscal 2015 U.S. arms export sales of $47.085 billion, including $35.359 billion through Foreign Military Sales and $11.726 billion through various security cooperation and assistance efforts such as Foreign Military Financing and Defense Department programs. “Demand for U.S. defense products and services remains strong, as the U.S. share of total global arms transfer agreements has increased over the last decade,” DSCA says. “The U.S.
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