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Apr 11, 2024
About three years before its first scheduled fielding, the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft fleet has a new group of F-16-based testbed aircraft.
Apr 04, 2024
The U.S. Navy in March received the first of 22 former Swiss Air Force Northrop F-5s that will be converted to adversary aircraft for Navy and Marines training.
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Aircraft & Propulsion
Apr 24, 2024
Anduril and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will continue to design the first increment of the collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) for the U.S. Air Force.
Apr 24, 2024
The Japanese military plans to significantly expand its air refueling fleet.
Apr 24, 2024
A lack of funding is putting pressure on USAF plans to field an advanced new tanker in the 2030s and limiting upgrades for a follow-on purchase of KC-46As.
Apr 23, 2024
Lockheed Martin posted better-than-expected results in the first quarter, but delivered no F-35s as its ongoing software problems have yet to be resolved.
Apr 22, 2024
Spain is to bolster its aerial firefighting capacity by purchasing seven new De Haviland Canada DHC-515 amphibious fire bombers.
Space
Apr 22, 2024
The approx. $120 million NASA Earth science campaign aims to bring airborne scientific insight to environmental concerns and is set to unfold over 2026 to 2029.
Apr 18, 2024
Aalto HAPS has purchased Ampirus Technologies’ 450 Wh/kg SiMaxx lithium-ion cells for its stratospheric Zephyr UAV.
Apr 18, 2024
The second of two Blue Origin BE-4 engines has arrived at United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Decatur, Alabama, factory for installation on a Vulcan rocket.
Apr 18, 2024
Ingenuity received a software update that will prompt it to activate daily, awaken flight computers, test its solar panel, batteries and electronics, and more.
Apr 17, 2024
Startup Inversion plans to launch Ray, its reentry capsule technology demonstrator, on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-12 rideshare mission.
Missile Defense & Weapons
Apr 18, 2024
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is seeking Poland’s admission into German-led ESSI, to bolster the region’s ground-based air defenses.
Apr 18, 2024
Early analysis of test results for the Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile (ITCM) shows that "all subsystems performed as per expectation."
Apr 17, 2024
Taiwan has conducted the first live firing of the ground-launched variant of the Tien Chien II (TC-2) missile.
Apr 16, 2024
The U.S. Navy is approaching a total of $1 billion in munitions expended in the Red Sea and Eastern Mediterranean.
Apr 16, 2024
The American military engages targets first with the longest-range interceptor available—the most effective, but also the most costly, a Pentagon official says.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare
Mar 26, 2024
Saab will supply its Arexis sensor suite to equip a fleet of German Air Force Eurofighters for the suppression and destruction of enemy air defense mission.
Mar 08, 2024
The announcements came during a visit by Defense Minister Bill Blair to CFB Trenton, the main operating base for the CE-145C Vigilance and a hub for CC-330s.
Mar 07, 2024
A new U.S. Army cross-functional team will be created to usher in a new stratospheric layer of aerial sensing platforms.
Mar 06, 2024
Palantir will build 10 prototypes of the U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) ground stations.
Mar 04, 2024
Emirati defense group Edge has teamed with Spain’s Indra to create a “major industry player” in the development and production of radar systems in the UAE.
Supply chain
Mar 06, 2024
Engineered parts provider Barnes Group has settled with an activist hedge fund and will change its board of directors.
Mar 05, 2024
The plan also includes the creation of a European Defense Industry Program.
Mar 04, 2024
A Boeing acquisition of all or part of Spirit AeroSystems could be, if consummated, a surprise coup for the former’s defense business.
Mar 02, 2024
The move would secure Lockheed’s new-space supplier while putting an end to a dramatic couple of years for the space upstart.
Mar 01, 2024
The public-private fellowship partnership placed officers, enlisted personnel and DOD civilians into startups, accelerators and venture capital firms.
Budget, Policy & Operations
Apr 22, 2024
Canada plans to spend more than CDN$5 billion ($3.65 billion) on the acquisition of airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft, defense officials have confirmed.
Apr 22, 2024
Labour has now joined the Conservatives in pledging to raise defense spending to 2.5% of GDP, but woolly caveats and an impending election leave doubts.
Apr 19, 2024
Ukrainian forces have claimed the downing a Russian Tupolev Tu-22M3, which crashed after a missile strike against the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine.
Apr 18, 2024
Born in Ukraine in April 1952, Kvochur joined the Soviet armed forces in the early 1970s.
Apr 18, 2024
Argentine Defense Minister Luis Petri met NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana on April 18 in Brussels to open talks on partnership status.