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Mar 13, 2024
The U.S. Navy appears set to begin buying replacements for its aging T-45 Goshawk training aircraft, with budget documents showing procurement to begin in 2026 after a contract has been awarded.
Mar 12, 2024
The U.S. Air Force has pushed back the in-service date by about another year for the Boeing T-7 Red Hawk to 2028.
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Aircraft & Propulsion
Apr 22, 2024
The 6,000-lb., MQ-8C will soon be gone, but the requirement will not be forgotten.
Apr 19, 2024
Airbus Helicopters is gearing up to begin final assembly of the first prototypes for the military variant of its twin-engine H160 medium helicopter.
Apr 19, 2024
A T-45C Goshawk engine malfunction on April 12 has caused the U.S. Navy to pause flight operations of the type—the second mishap for the trainer in less than a month.
Apr 19, 2024
The second full flight simulator for the Embraer C-390 military transport aircraft will be located in Portugal.
Apr 19, 2024
ShinMaywa remains optimistic on the export potential of its US-2 seaplane for parapublic purposes.
Space
Apr 16, 2024
Dark, a developer of a space junk interceptor rocket, has raised a $6 million seed round extension.
Apr 16, 2024
Boeing’s first crewed CST-100 Starliner capsule was rolled out to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral SFS on April 16.
Apr 15, 2024
The plan is part of a 51-page MSR Independent Response Team (MIRT) report released by NASA on April 15.
Apr 12, 2024
The U.S. will contribute the launch service, aerobraking engines and radioisotope heater units.
Apr 12, 2024
Smotr-V will be Russia’s highest-resolution commercial satellite.
Missile Defense & Weapons
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.
Apr 15, 2024
Lockheed Martin will complete its design of the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) $17 billion Next Generation Interceptor.
Apr 15, 2024
The U.S. Army has deployed its new ground-launched cruise missile capability for the first time, setting up the mid-range capability (MRC) in the Philippines for an exercise.
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
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.
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.