Defense

This event coincided with a worrying escalation by Russia in its 33-month war against Ukraine.

Overall, sales rose 5% year-on-year to $8 billion, earnings per share climbed to $2.34 and the company’s backlog reached a record $34 billion.

South Korea's Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and Hanwha have revealed their new supersonic air-to-ground missile.

Safran expects to sell its share in the Roxel missile motor joint venture to MBDA before the year's end.

Kelly Ortberg’s task of revitalizing the beleaguered company was never going to be easy. Striking workers just made it harder.

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

Bulgaria becomes the third air force to clear a first flight event for Lockheed F-16 Block 70s, following Bahrain and Slovakia.

The U.S. Air Force’s top commander has refuted the Lockheed Martin CEO’s characterization of the first batch of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA).

HENSOLDT announced first flight of PEGASUS airborne surveillance aircraft (Global 6000), the first of three for Germany; following flight tests by BOMBARDIER, LUFTHANSA TECHNIK was install Kalætron Integral SIGINT system in Hamburg.

The two companies will develop advanced technologies together and work to accelerate L3Harris’s “digital transformation,” L3Harris said on Oct. 23.

The interceptor needs to be an autonomous aircraft launched from an air vehicle with a “hard kill system” effective against the small drones.

Air Force officials have not linked the NGAD review to a larger force structure study that affects the B-21, changes could arise from a host of pending reviews.

Finland is preparing for the SEAD/DEAD mission by acquiring Northrop Grumman’s Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile–Extended Range (AARGM-ER).

Turkish industry is investing in the development of self-protection systems destined for use on the country’s growing fleet of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS).

JISS is calling for Japan's Defense Ministry and the Japan Self-Defense Forces to develop its own tactical surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking satellites.

U.S. refusal to sell the F-35 to Taiwan, and the subsequent failure of the country’s indigenous Advanced Defense Fighter, has reshaped Taipei’s thinking in the face of continued Chinese encroachment.

Boeing employees represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) voted down the latest contract offer.

To cut mishaps by half, the service is focusing on ground-handling incidents that damage aircraft.

As a technicality threatens to disrupt the program, Army officials laid out long-term plans for fielding and upgrading the future HADES fleet.

BRANFORD CASTLE has acquired HOFFMAN ENGINEERING, CT (night vision systems) from Trident Maritime Systems.

In mid-October, the S500 BAT clocked its highest operating altitude yet, rising to 500 m (1,640 ft.) above ground.

The feasibility review for the Light Transport Aircraft Project follows the completion of a survey sent out to the aviation market.

A UAE Armed Forces-owned TB2 released Edge’s Desert Sting in a test earlier this year.

The Space Force in 2021 selected Millennium and Raytheon, an RTX company, for the Epoch 1 program.