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

A consortium of Belgian, French, German, Italian and Polish companies and research institutes has been selected to begin research on electromagnetic railguns.

In response to the novel coronavirus, the U.S. military was forced to think outside the box on how to produce pilots.

A scramjet-powered missile developed under the joint DARPA/U.S. Air Force Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program was destroyed in a recent test accident, Aviation Week has learned. 

Camp Simba in Kenya and Al Asad Air Base in Iraq both came under attack in January in a way that dramatized the wide range of vulnerabilities facing U.S. air bases around the world.

The U.S. Air Force and Department of Energy have qualified the B61-12 tailkit for the F-15E.

An inadvertent disclosure on an Army social media site reveals an advanced new concept already in flight testing.

A satellite laser communication terminal developed by General Atomics’ Electromagnetic Systems division will be demonstrated in orbit in 2021, the company says.