MDA Space says it has agreed to buy RTX’s smallsat-maker Blue Canyon in a deal that would give the Canadian buyer a satellite production foothold in the U.S.
The Finnish government has given the go-ahead for the country’s Defense Forces Logistics Command to procure RTX GBU-53 Small Diameter Bomb II munitions to equip its fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35As.
Divergent Technologies has unveiled a large laser powder bed fusion 3D printer that it developed in-house and plans for a second factory in Long Beach, California.
Bern expects to assess French, German, Israeli, and South Korean air and missile defense options to augment its needs given expanding issues with delivery of the U.S. Patriot systems.
RTX’s Collins Aerospace is expanding a facility in Largo, Florida, to accelerate production of radars for the FAA’s air traffic control modernization push.
Demand for all sorts of missiles—from air defense interceptors to deep-strike weapons—is starting to flow through to the earnings of major defense companies.
Germany says it will finance the purchase of RTX Patriot equipment for Ukraine and underwrite delivery of more Diehl Defense ground-launched IRIS-T systems.
Collins Aerospace has begun tests of an electric motor drive system which will pave the way for follow-on demonstrations of hybrid-electric technology on a GTF.
Switzerland is walking away from adding funds to its F-35 budget to preserve the original plan of fielding 36 aircraft, while embarking on an effort to acquire another air defense system.
