Eager not to see a repeat of the 2014 Gripen referendum, the Swiss government aims to persuade the public of the need for new fighters.

A Republican senator’s proposal in a June 25 amendment to the fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill would allow the U.S. Army to acquire Turkey’s S-400 batteries.

The idea of blasting a boost-phase ballistic weapon out of the sky with a high-energy laser mounted on an aircraft has always been ambitious, and it remains so after 20 years of failed attempts.

In what might be a rare reference to the Lockheed Martin AIM-260 program, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) slipped an authorization into…

The U.S. Defense Department chose not to fund a critical new space-based sensor for hypersonic defense, but lawmakers have stepped in to rescue the…

Exquadrum announced on June 25 it has completed the second and final live test of a full-scale hybrid rocket motor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that could be used to power hypersonic missiles, missile defense interceptors and orbital space launchers. 

Two factors caused the first pre-production aircraft accident just before the fighter was to be delivered to the Russian military.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.