South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter program is likely to move slowly in 2016, with the finance ministry proposing funding that looks inadequate for beginning full-scale development.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is taking steps to establish a catalog of prequalified 3U and 6U CubeSat suppliers prepared to furnish their small satellites on a fixed price basis for a range of future missions.
The guided-missile destroyer DDG 66 USS Gonzalez conducted testing of a UAV during a Composite Unit Training Exercise (Comptuex), U.S. Navy officials say.
U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (Navsea) was deficient in its handling of requests for waivers and deferrals from certain operational test requirements for the SM-6 missile and a key system for identifying terrorists, a recent Pentagon Inspector General (IG) report says.
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, homeported in Seattle, arrived at the North Pole earlier this month, becoming the first U.S. surface ship to do so unaccompanied, the Coast Guard says.
The recent appearance of the Chinese DF-21D antiship ballistic missile — the so-called “carrier killer” — in the recent parade of military force in Beijing failed to leave much of a mark, at least publicly, on the Pentagon.
Though not finished with formal testing, two new Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites have been used for operations, says Air Force Gen. John Hyten, who oversees Air Force Space Command.
Experts want further research to prevent contamination of the red planet’s little-understood “Special Regions” — areas potentially warm and wet enough for Earthly microbes to proliferate.
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will maintain the lead in air superiority over all comers for the next 20 to 30 years despite aggressive efforts emerging from new fighter technology in China, Russia and elsewhere, program officials claim.
The U.S. Air Force’s top special operations officer says he hopes to outfit his gunship fleet with new UAV sensors and high-energy lasers in the future.
The Kongsberg-developed Joint Strike Missile (JSM), designed for internal carriage in Lockheed Martin’s F-35, has completed captive carriage testing in the U.S. and will be air dropped for the first time in October from an F-16.
An American pilot said a Chinese aircraft intercepted his U.S. intelligence-gathering RC-135 in an “unsafe” manner earlier this month, the Pentagon says, in a scenario reminiscent of previous recent incidents of aerial harassment.
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 5 Milwaukee successfully concluded its acceptance trial earlier this month after completing a series of in-port and underway demonstrations for the U.S. Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey (Insurv), service officials say.
