Five Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aircrew personnel recently graduated from basic training at Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129, the U.S. Navy’s EA-18G Growler Fleet Replacement Squadron at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island.
China’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) could lead to tense situations that could escalate to serious geopolitical crises given the recent international clashes in other realms in the region, according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
In an exchange with Rep. John Culbertson (R-Texas), the new chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA, Administrator Charles Bolden said the possibility of a station shutdown is a strong argument in favor of meeting his agency’s $1.2 billion request for commercial crew vehicles in 2016.
U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) took nearly a month to openly acknowledge to the press that one of the country’s oldest satellites fragmented into 43 pieces in orbit last month, creating a debris field.
The Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3USS Fort Worth practiced the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (Cues) with the People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) Jiangkai II frigate FFG 572 Hengshui last month, “enhancing the professional maritime relationship” between U.S. 7th Fleet and the PLAN, U.S. Navy officials say. Fort Worth and Hengshui were conducting routine training and operations in international waters of the South China Sea when training opportunity became available, Navy officials say.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) says the scheduled March 9 launch of the IRNSS-1D navigation satellite has been deferred after an anomaly was found in one of the telemetry transmitters of the spacecraft.
The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft, operational with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) for only about two years, is already in line for upgrades, notably for its Northrop Grumman Mesa radar.
Lockheed Martin will collaborate with laser-radar developer H.N. Burns Engineering to develop systems to enable helicopter pilots to fly in degraded visual environments (DVE).
U.S. and Japan naval forces participated in a four-day Fleet Synthetic Training-Joint (FST-J) exercise in late February for ballistic missile defense (BMD) operations.
India spent 838.48 billion rupees ($13.5 billion) acquiring defense equipment from foreign vendors during the last three fiscal years, Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar says.
Gulfstream Aerospace and Spirit AeroSystems have settled a case in which Spirit alleged it had sustained damages for incomplete payments for wings it manufactured for Gulfstream’s G650 aircraft.
New Zealand and U.S.-based sounding rocket and launch vehicle developer Rocket Lab has secured a further round of financing which will enable it to complete work on the Electron launch system and allow commercial operations to begin as early as 2016.
Rolls-Royce is moving assembly of the three-bearing swivel (3BSM) module, a key component of the Lockheed Martin F-35B lift system, from the U.K. to a newly-built lift system facility in Indianapolis, as part of broader cost-saving initiatives for the Joint Strike Fighter program.
