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Aug 01, 2022
New chief of Roscosmos says decision made to leave ISS after 2024.
Aug 01, 2022
How soon can the U.S. Defense Department pivot from offensive to defensive hypersonic weapons—and can it afford to?
Jul 29, 2022
Tupolev’s PAK DA strategic bomber program aims to fly its first prototype in 2024.
Jul 27, 2022
Europe tops up R&D fund; Congress weighs in on F-35 engine; Typhoon fighter munition sales approved; Japan outlines investment priorities.
Jul 25, 2022
Tracking capability is critical to intercepting hypersonic missiles.

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Apr 29, 2025
The House Armed Services Committee on April 29 advanced a GOP-led measure to increase Pentagon spending by $150 billion.
Apr 28, 2025
Republican lawmakers want to add money to both the F-47 and the U.S. Navy’s yet-to-be-selected next fighter.
Apr 28, 2025
The UK Royal Navy has declared FOC with its Crowsnest helicopter-borne airborne early warning radar system, which is slated for replacement in the early 2030s.
Apr 28, 2025
The Netherlands has been given the green light to acquire Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles for its warships.
Apr 28, 2025
Stockholm's raft of new measures to bolster funding for both its own armed forces and Ukraine represents a post-Trump adjustment to previously established plans.
Apr 28, 2025
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Lockheed Martin’s Astrotech Space Operations a contract to boost payload processing capacity at Vandenberg SFB, California.
Apr 25, 2025
A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 experienced an engine fire on takeoff April 18 and conducted an emergency landing, damaging the tiltrotor.
Apr 25, 2025
The German Air Force is trying to ease concerns that the Lockheed Martin F-35s it is buying could be operationally impaired by U.S. control over the Joint Strike Fighter's technology.