Defense

Saab’s beastly-looking anti-ship cruise missile, the RBS15, is to be upgraded and installed on Sweden’s new E-series JAS 39 Gripen and Visby-class corvette.

Australia will increase military spending by 5.6% for the coming fiscal year as it targets a defense budget of 2% of gross domestic product within four years.

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) this September will hold the first of what officials hope will be a yearly event concerning small UAS.

As Saab prepares to fly its newest JAS 39 Gripen E-series aircraft some time in the next couple of months, the company still is waging determined international sales campaigns for its in-production C/D model.

Turkish Aerospace Industries has taken the covers off its T625 twin-engine medium helicopter.

Airbus has formed a U.S.-based company, called Airbus Aerial, to bring together commercial satellite and unmanned aircraft remote sensing to provide data collection and image processing services to large and global enterprise customers.

Japan is considering an acquisition of Raytheon BGM-109 Tomahawk missiles, Kyodo news agency says.

A year after forming a commercial business unit in a bid to expand out of its core defense market, unmanned aircraft manufacturer Insitu has unveiled a revamped suite of remote-sensing and information-processing services.

Logos Technologies’s Redkite sensor has captured and streamed wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) to multiple handheld devices in flight tests on Insitu’s Integrator tactical unmanned aircraft system (UAS).

Special Operations Command looks to Future Vertical Lift to help win on the battlefield of 2030.

Improved export and U.S. orders, the T-X competition and a bridge to future fighter aircraft programs have put the Boeing unit in a better position.

The Swedish Air Force has little interest in any of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation T-X trainer candidates except the Boeing/Saab offer, but is not ready to rule them in or out as potential SK 60 replacements.

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force recently demonstrated that the stealthy F-22 Raptor can securely communicate with the F-15C and other legacy aircraft in real-time over an advanced networking pod.

AeroVironment has delivered the first 20 Snipe Nano Quad miniature unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to a U.S. government customer.

Rolls-Royce and Turkish engineering firm Kale Group are to establish a joint venture which will initially develop an engine for Turkey’s indigenous fighter, the TF-X.

A Rapid Capability Office set up by the U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) is to work with Leonardo to further develop its BriteCloud expendable decoy system.

Swift Engineering has completed autonomous marine flight tests on its Swift020 vertical-takeoff-and-landing small unmanned aircraft system (UAS).

Lockheed Martin’s Procerus Technologies has introduced an all-weather, military-grade Indago 3 version of its commercial small unmanned aircraft system (UAS).

Airbus has carried out its first aerial refueling contacts using an automated system, a test which could pave the way for automatic refueling of receiver aircraft.

Inmarsat has launched a satellite communications service for unmanned aircraft using a small terminal developed by Cobham Satcom.

Turkey’s Aselsan has begun development of an indigenous active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar likely to become the primary sensor of the country’s future fighter.

Turkey’s Tubitak Sage research institute has unveiled a family of air-to-air missiles which could go onto equip the country’s future indigenous fighter, the TF-X.

Congress boosted funding for new aircraft by 15%, but overall defense received a meager increase.

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s proposed replacement for the Russian-build RD-180 rocket engine, the liquid-fueled AR1, has completed its critical design review.

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