Further upgrades for the U.S. Army’s latest Textron Systems RQ-7Bv2 Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft system (UAS) will be fielded beginning later this year and will include enabling higher levels of manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T).
The company recorded increased revenues of €2.654 billion ($2.97 billion) in the first quarter of 2015 and increased profits of €110 million, compared to €101 million during the same period of 2014, although new orders were slightly down.
The aircraft took to the air May 7 from the company’s Gostomel facility in Kiev and performed a one-hour flight under the command of flight test crew Andrii Spasibo, Sergii Troshyn and Mykola Sydorenko.
While getting ready for a potential fight in the Taiwan Strait remains its priority, China is building up forces for other, expanded missions, the Pentagon says in its recent annual report on the Asian giant.
The Turkish government plans to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to find bidders willing to help the country’s industry develop its TF-X indigenous fighter.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is planning the first Arab trip to Mars with a robotic mission dubbed “Hope” that the government says will create mankind’s first integrated model of the Red Planet’s atmosphere.
Russia’s uncontrolled Progress 59 International Space Station resupply capsule re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean late May 7, according to Roscosmos, the federal space agency, and U.S. military monitors.
Indian authorities have approved a proposal to develop two communication satellites to augment the country’s telecommunication, television service and in-orbit backup systems.
Russia’s wayward Progress 59 International Space Station resupply mission spacecraft appears destined for an uncontrolled overnight re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
Lawmakers are putting up the cash to back up their concern for U.S. shipbuilding programs, according to Michael Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), the nation’s top naval vessel builder.
Japan, challenged with a numerically superior Chinese fighter force, is re-examining the 1950s concept of exercising air control with low-performance aircraft firing high-performance missiles.
With flight tests underway on the improved Anka B unmanned aerial system, Turkish Aerospace Industries is focusing its attention on making the production system, Anka S, ready for operations by the Turkish air force.
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) hit many marks for Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) testing in fiscal 2014 but failed to hit its overall goals, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a recent report.
The Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3 USS Fort Worth stopped in Subic Bay, the Philippines, on May 4 to resupply and refuel before continuing routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility.
Researchers studying how various materials perform in long-duration exposure to the space environment will get a ride on the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B reusable unpiloted spaceplane’s next flight, NASA said May 6.
India and France have decided to expedite an intergovernmental agreement to buy 36 Rafale fighters by establishing special teams to work out the details of the acquisition process.
To navigate the cyber realm more safely with its ships, aircraft and other platforms, the U.S. Navy has to pay closer attention to the way it operates and the technology it uses, says Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, commander of the Fleet Cyber Command and Tenth Fleet.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has announced the first-ever Air Force Prize, awarding $2 million for the first developer of a lightweight, turbine engine to power a UAV.
NASA ground control teams working with a mock satellite bus positioned outside the International Space Station have completed a five-day round of hardware staging and technology demonstrations that one day could robotically refurbish satellites as distant as geosynchronous orbit.
