A Chinese mining firm has entered the market for supersonic cruise missiles by unveiling ground- and air-launched versions of a ramjet-powered weapon at Airshow China.
Norwegian auditors have criticized Oslo’s procurement of the NH90 naval helicopter over the delays to its service entry, high operating costs and low reliability.
Turkish media has reported that the U.S. manufacturer will provide its F110 turbofan, which normally powers the Lockheed Martin F-16, for the prototypes and possibly a batch of early production aircraft.
The Israeli Defense Ministry is easing defense export rules after greater pressure from Israeli firms that cited growing competition on the global market.
Silicon Valley startup Swarm Technologies, still under investigation by the FCC for launching four prototype nanosats without OK, is getting a second chance.
Bell has selected battery developer Electric Power Systems (EPS) to provide energy storage for eVTOL and on-demand mobility aircraft now under development.
ROMANIA has signed an agreement and transferred funding to the U.S. to purchase three RAYTHEON Patriot air and missile defense systems from the U.S. ARMY.
Chinese private space launch company Landspace suspects a broken pipe in the terminal-correction attitude-control system caused the failure of its first shot, on Oct. 27.
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As the U.S. pivots to an era of great power competition, the Pentagon’s research and engineering chief has directed the Defense Science Board (DSB) to study the future of military superiority that moves past modernizing equipment.
Flying at Mach 1.4 and 50,000 ft., the X-59 is designed to produce a sonic “thump” of less than 75 PNLdB, compared with the 105-110-PLdB “double-bang” sonic boom produced by Concorde.
Chinese efforts at developing reusable space launchers have progressed as far as demonstrating control technology in a vertical landing of a small test rig.
Chinese private space launch company Landspace suspects a broken pipe in the terminal-correction attitude-control system caused the failure of its first shot.
