The goal is to expand the envelope to 10,000-ft. altitude, 70-kt. speed and a three-day endurance, in preparation for mission system tests and demonstrations to potential customers.
USAF Brig. Gen. Duke Richardson, the program executive officer for all Air Force tanker programs, sheds light on multiple deficiencies discovered in the KC-46 fuel system in an exclusive interview.
The Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (Sewip) Block 3 program successfully completed the preliminary design review (PDR) recently for the next generation AN/SLQ-32 shipboard electronic warfare system.
NASA doesn’t believe Orbital ATK can meet its announced schedule for returning its Antares commercial-cargo launcher to flight in the wake of last year’s explosion.
The company has been using the DSEi defense exhibition here to market the weapon as a potential alternative to the Lockheed Martin AGM-114 Hellfire and its planned U.S. replacement, the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile.
An upgraded version of Saab’s Giraffe AMB (Agile Multi-Beam) radar showed that it could discriminate between small UAVs and seabirds in recent trials on the west coast of Scotland, the company says.
Amid reports that the U.S. Navy may cancel construction of DDG 1002 Lyndon B. Johnson, service officials say work continues on the ship as planned, although the Zumwalt-class acquisition program is being reviewed.
After a series of certification issues, L-3 says it is making progress on the modification program for its Bombardier Q400-based multi-mission aircraft demonstrator.
The U.S. Air Force’s cybersecurity chief is confident in his service’s ability to protect its networks, but sees the protection of platforms such as fighter aircraft and satellites as his next major challenge.
DDG 64 USS Carney departed its homeport of Mayport, Florida, earlier this month to travel to Rota, Spain, as the final of four Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers to be forward deployed there.
ROLLS-ROYCE delivered 2,000th AE 2100 engine for installation onto U.S. Air Force C-130J. Engine also powers C-27J, Japan’s US-2, Saab 2000 civil turboprops.
Top NASA managers have delayed the “committed” target for the first flight of its $11.5 billion Orion crew vehicle with astronauts on board from August 2021 until April 2023.
MBDA has delivered production components for the Sea Ceptor air defense missile system (ADMS) for the Royal Navy frigate Argyll, the first of its Type 23 Duke-class ships to be retrofitted with the new weapon.
Two of the Air Force’s top generals say that a podded, tactical laser is likely to be ready for operational use on aircraft by 2020, a major breakthrough in a technology that has been under slow but steady development for decades.
