General Atomics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman won contracts to pursue preliminary design work for DARPA’s LongShot program to develop an air-launched UAV that can employ multiple air-to-air weapons, DARPA announced Feb. 8.

An independent report has concluded that neither Ukrainian nor Russian aviation regulators were aware of any potential threats to civil airspace in the lead up to the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

Ask the Editors: Warfare has changed over the decades, so what worked in previous conflicts may no longer be the way to go.

A “special notice” published on Feb. 2 by the Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions Project Office defines a plan to stage of shoot-off of candidate designs in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022. 

Eaton buying two Cobham divisions; Pentagon nominee on nuclear weapons; South Korea’s Global Hawk tussle; F-15EX flies.

Israel’s Rafael has developed a turbojet-powered derivative of its Spice 250 glide bomb that allows the weapon to strike targets out to ranges of at least 150 km.

The Tel Aviv-based manufacturer sold a naval version of the electro-optical guided missile to one Asian customer and a ground-launched version of the HAROP to another Asian customer.

Originally conceived as a commercial communications relay, the MQ-9’s mission is coming full circle under ABMS.