Israel has finally acknowledged that its Arrow-2 anti-ballistic missile system failed a September 2014 intercept test. The Israeli defense ministry also said that a December 2014 test of the Arrow-3 system was aborted due to a malfunction in the target missile.
The Laser Directed Energy Weapon Capability Demonstrator is a program being run by the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, which will “enhance the U.K.’s understanding of the capability of a laser-based weapon system.”
Italy will purchase six P.1HH HammerHead air vehicles and three ground control stations, Piaggio announced on the final day of the IDEX defense show in Abu Dhabi on Feb. 26.
KAMAN AEROSPACE earned $108.7m on $633m in 2014 vs. $102.6m on $614m in 2013; it expects low single-digit growth in 2015. AEQUS, India, agreed to acquire a minority stake in SPARTACUS3D, France (additive layer manufacturing), from Farinia Group to advance its aerospace manufacturing capabilities. SAFRAN says it is very interested in the collaboration’s potential.
Lawmakers are not united on much these days, but Republicans and Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee are pressing the Obama administration to provide defensive, lethal military assistance to Ukraine. Christine Wormuth, the Pentagon’s under secretary for policy, told the committee Feb. 25 that the Defense Department will be watching to see that the Minsk ceasefire agreements will be upheld. But even Rep.
Iridium Communications Inc. says it will postpone the launch of its first two next-generation mobile communications satellites atop a commercial Dnepr rocket because of delays in spacecraft software development.
A series of five Earth-monitoring satellites launched by NASA over the past year is beginning to move from calibration to data-taking in ways that suggest they will enhance researchers’ understanding of how the planet’s climate is changing.
More than 500 small satellites will be launched in the next five years, a two-thirds increase in the average number per year compared with the past decade, according to Euroconsult.
A U.S. Air Force official emphasizes that no decision on a "red air" aggressor version of T-X will be made until after the design for the T-38 replacement is selected.
A retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general with a long background in space, Worden has managed the U.S. space agency’s outpost in California’s Silicon Valley since May 2006.
The technology is particularly relevant to prospective operators of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning, because the JSM is designed to fit into the weapons bay of the fighter, preserving its stealthiness.
Iridium will partner with four manufacturers to design, build and distribute satellite terminals compatible with the fleet operator's new Iridium Certus broadband service.
UTVA AVIO INDUSTRIJA, Serbia, was selected by PIAGGIO AEROSPACE to supply two marry-up jigs for its final assembly line at Villanova d’Albenga, Italy for installation by mid-2015; one jig will be dedicated for military aircraft and one for business aircraft. VICTREX plans to build major Polymer Innovation Center in northern England after securing $2m grant from U.K. Govt for project.
MSubs, a specialist small-submersible company with U.K. and U.S. facilities, is proposing a coastal-patrol submarine with a displacement of 275 tons and has shown the design at the IDEX defense show in Abu Dhabi. Named Dreadnought, the submarine would be an order of magnitude larger than typical special operations submersibles and several times smaller and less costly than full-sized diesel-electric submarines now on the market.
BAE’s company-owned Hawk, ZJ951, will begin flying with some of these technologies in September, a senior BAE Systems executive told Aviation Week at the IDEX show in Abu Dhabi.
A small quantity of water detected in the spacesuit helmet worn by U.S. astronaut Terry Virts following his nearly 7-hr. spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Feb. 25 once again raised concerns over the shuttle-era garments.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) apparently will leave his tea party activism to other venues as he takes up the helm of the subcommittee that oversees the U.S. civil space program, opting instead to keep NASA focused on the ongoing public and private spacecraft-development programs hammered out between Congress and the White House.
The order will not add a new type to the army’s fleet, because the army has also ordered six EC145s in the type’s military utility version, the UH-72A Lakota.
