The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser CG 54 USS Antietam participated in an air defense exercise (Adex) with the Australian Defense Force last month in the Timor Sea during the Talisman Sabre (TS) 2015 exercise.
A U.S. Navy task group comprising ships, aircraft, sailors and Marines arrived in Indonesia earlier this month to commence the 21st annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (Carat) Indonesia 2015.
Facebook’s Connectivity Lab says the solar-powered Aquila flying-wing UAV — which has a span of 140 ft., comparable with a Boeing 737, but weighs less than 1,000 lb. — has been completed in the U.K. and is ready for flight and payload testing later this year in the U.S.
After years of the U.S. Army dithering over requirements, Lockheed Martin finally has received a formal development contract for the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM), which will replace Hellfire and TOW missiles on rotary wing and unmanned aircraft.
The company faced a €290 million ($316 million) charge on the troubled airlifter, which suffered a crash in early May that significantly affected flight-testing and delivery progress.
U.S. AIR FORCE declared initial operational capability for the Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman Advanced Extremely High Frequency system on July 28. First three satellites are in orbit; AEHF-4 will launch in 2017, AEHF-5 in 2018, AEHF-6 in 2019. FERRA ENGINEERING, Brisbane, received first Australian supplier contract from Northrop Grumman for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Triton UAV, for mechanical subassemblies for the first four air vehicles, including structural components.
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Five years later than planned, billions of dollars over budget and despite multiple attempts to kill it, the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter is finally beginning its operational use with the U.S. Marine Corps.
A top U.S. Air Force space officer has opened the door to establishing a government-funded, “organic” program to improve domestic technical prowess in building oxygen-rich rocket engines, should industry fail to produce the investment needed for these advances.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves says there should be “no perception that SpaceX is getting a pass” in its mishap investigation, despite lawmaker concerns.
Chinese engineers have begun the final series of firing tests of the propulsion system of the Long March 5 heavy space launcher, an evaluation process the manufacturer describes as unusually complex.
Italian aerospace and defense group Finmeccanica is spinning off several of its largest companies and merging two others as part of a radical restructuring.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) and Indian air force (IAF) have hailed a successful a major exercise which saw the deployment of four Sukhoi Su-30MKI “Flankers” to the U.K. to fly with and against the RAF’s Eurofighter Typhoon.
Adm. John Richardson appears to be holding the service’s current course, with calls for maintaining a global presence aligned with maritime partners and deploying a robust at-sea force.
Wearable telementoring devices are showing promise for rendering medical assistance and equipment repair tasks during future deep space missions, according to U.S., European and Japanese astronauts participating in a NASA-sponsored undersea mission simulation.
The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser CG 62 USS Chancellorsville departed Yokosuka, Japan, earlier this month for an Indo-Asia-Pacific region patrol with an upgraded combat system.
Belgian chemical company Solvay says the $5.5 billion cash acquisition of U.S.-based Cytec will make it the second-largest player in aerospace composite materials, behind Hexcel.
