“Although we call it a life extension, aside from energetics, everything in [the Trident II D5 Life Extension 2 missile] is going to be completely new,” Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe, director of the Navy's Strategic Systems Program (SSP) office, said July 7.
The UK Royal Navy is bolstering the firepower of its six Type 45 air-defense destroyers with the installation of MBDA’s Sea Ceptor surface-to-air missile system.
Blacktree has joined Airbus Defense and Space’s Team Maier initiative, established in October 2020 to provide solutions for Australia's JP 9102 military satellite communication program.
The airshow's organizers say attendance by overseas visitors, which may be difficult depending on COVID-related border restrictions, is not critical to the success of this year's event.
The distinctive, 100-kg (220-lb.) UAS100 has been designed to carry up to 10 kg with a radius of action of 100 km (62 mi.) and perform surveillance of critical infrastructure.
The U.S. Space Force may begin testing early-warning satellites in medium-Earth orbit as early as 2022, which aligns with comments made by a service official last week who said the Force Design team will assess the theory of putting missile-warning satellites into non-traditional orbits.
Existing aeronautical standards are not adequate for certifying artificial intelligence (AI) with safety-critical systems, and new means of compliance will have to be developed, concludes a report jointly issued by standards developers SAE International and Eurocae.
The Pentagon has terminated the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud contract with Microsoft because the effort no longer meets requirements, and instead is launching a new multi-vendor program called the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability.
Former President Benigno Aquino III was responsible for reviving the Armed Forces of the Philippines Modernization Act in 2012, to bring the its air force back into the supersonic age after over a decade of neglect.
As it prepares to list on the New York Stock Exchange, on-demand private aviation provider Wheels Up has detailed its vision for expanding into the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing market.
As with the two previous renderings, the U.S. Air Force’s latest release offers only a partial glimpse of the stealth bomber’s final configuration, obscuring nearly as much as it reveals.
NASA is moving ahead with efforts to engage the U.S. private sector in a competition to develop and provide sustained commercial Lunar Exploration Transportation Services.
Until the July 5 decision to postpone the undocking, the Cargo Dragon was to depart the ISS on July 6 at about 11 a.m. EDT with a 5,000-lb. return cargo for a parachute-assisted descent into the Atlantic Ocean on July 8 at 12 a.m. EDT.
Astronauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo completed the first extravehicular activity (EVA) outside the Tianhe core module, marking China’s first spacewalk since the Shenzhou-7 mission in 2008.
Dassault Aviation has created a joint research laboratory in partnership with two French academic institutions dubbed Moliere, an acronym of the French for “innovative functional materials for aviation.”
At least 47 military personnel have been killed after a Philippine Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules crashed while attempting to land at an airfield on an island in the south of the country on July 4.
CAE has concluded its previously announced $1.05 billion acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ Military Training business, doubling its military training business in the U.S.
Australian startup Swoop Aero has completed a study in Mozambique that demonstrated the feasibility of using drones for the cold-chain transport of infectious tuberculosis and COVID-19 laboratory samples.
For unmanned cargo aircraft to operate effectively within a future express logistics system, what happens on the ground is as important as what happens in the air.
