Defense

Kratos displayed the first three of its high-speed, highly maneuverable subsonic aerial targets at its California production facility July 11.

Cadence Aerospace will acquire Wichita-based Perfekta.

Cadence Aerospace will acquire Wichita-based Perfekta.

The Boeing-manufactured F/A-18E/F Super Hornets for Kuwait will be a “crossover” of Block III with new features like an advanced cockpit system.

The U.S. State Department cleared two potential sales to the United Kingdom and Denmark for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (Amraams).

The $58.3 million sale of a British aerospace supplier to a Chinese owner has been called off after the UK government intervened on national security grounds.

The DOD is setting up a Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and tapping the Defense Innovation Board to engage with stakeholders with a goal of producing recommended principles.

Can Europe justify two new fighter aircraft? It may have to.

A look at some of key defense contractors and the choices they are facing.

As ministers quarrel, aerospace industry is calling for clarity on Brexit deal.

The U.S. Air Force’s low-cost unmanned strike aircraft demonstrator, the Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie, is scheduled to fly this fall.

Aerojet Rocketdyne's AR-22 engine, built from spare space shuttle main engine components, has been test-fired 10 times in less than 10 days.

The Cygnus resupply capsule used its 100-lb. thruster July 10 to carry out a 50-sec. orbit-raising maneuver of the International Space Station.

Israel’s first lunar lander is scheduled to be launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in December.

The Japanese defense ministry has penciled in the purchase of naval intelligence-gathering aircraft for the five-year defense program that will begin next year.

Russia’s Progress MS-09 cargo capsule successfully executed a two-orbit launch to docking with the International Space Station late July 9.

India’s space agency is looking at the possibility of a winged space plane.

Chinese space industry group Casc has test fired a space-launcher booster that it says has the greatest thrust of any solid-propellant motor in the country.

Rethinking the approach to defense mobilization in light of today’s landscape could work to the U.S.’s advantage.

The U.S. Air Force will receive the first of its long-awaited Boeing KC-46A aerial refueling tankers in October. The multirole aircraft is capable of air refueling using both boom and hose-and-drogue systems and can carry cargo, passengers and patients.

As countries modernize their rotary-wing fleets, they are bringing much-needed relief to the helicopter manufacturers suffering from a downturn driven by oil and gas industry woes.

Lockheed Martin, General Atomics and Boeing are competing to build the U.S. Navy’s carrier-based unmanned aircraft as the contest comes down to the wire.

The Pentagon’s research and engineering arm is directing a Defense Science Board task force to study elements of a resilient space architecture.

Engineers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and The Boring Co., a tunneling business, spent last weekend repurposing a Falcon 9 liquid oxygen transfer tube into the hull of a 31-cm sub that could be used in the ongoing rescue of a boys’ soccer team.

The acquisition program could take the form of a domestic developmental effort or a foreign off-the-shelf purchase, defense ministry officials said in an interview.