Defense

The London-based Royal United Services Institute suggests the £2 billion budget for the upgrade of the UK’s six Sentry aircraft could better spent on a new platform.

The U.S. Navy says its planned fleet of 160 Boeing EA-18G Growlers is enough for now, but several factors could see that number increase.

China's proposed Long March 9 Moon rocket would be powerful enough to send an object rather larger than the U.S. Lunar Module to the Moon’s surface.

Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody has begun producing a new batch of L-159 Advanced Light Combat Aircraft for the Czech Air Force.

Russia’s Progress MS-06 resupply capsule maneuvered toward an automated docking with the Russian segment of the International Space Station following a June 14 launch.

The U.S. Senate has narrowly rejected a challenge to the sale of about $500 million in precision-guided weapons to Saudi Arabia.

Britain needs to “refresh” its Brexit strategy following the country’s June 8 general election results, the chief executive of the UK aerospace trade organization ADS says.

The South Korean Air Force has received and begun operating at least one signals intelligence (sigint) aircraft based on a Dassault Falcon 2000 business jet.

One Raptor pilot details the crucial role the stealth fighter played in deconflicting operations in the weeks after U.S. airstrikes on Shayrat.

Kratos chief Eric DeMarco wants his company to be the very best at a handful of things.

The XQ-222 and UTAP-22 combat drones, derived from aerial target technology, have already captured the imagination of the U.S. military services stateside but are more obscure concepts on the world stage.

Boeing’s defense and space unit will eliminate a layer of management, affecting 50 employees, and reorganize executive reporting lines starting July 1.

World View Enterprises, Inc. is set for a four-day test flight of its uncrewed Stratollite high-altitude balloon, the longest voyage yet for the rocketless system.

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis says Russia appears to be in violation of the 1992 Open Skies Treaty by restricting where the U.S. and other party nations can fly.

India is getting ready to launch its latest Earth observation satellite in the Cartosat-2 series by the end of this month.

Lockheed Martin has been chosen by the U.S. Air Force to develop a “threat radar” capable of mimicking foreign-made “medium-range, double-digit” surface-to-air missiles.

Indonesia may be close to finally signing a long-delayed deal to buy Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker multi-role fighters, as Russia offers the inducement of a local service center.

There is a lot of intriguing activity in the aerospace industry than is not be apparent at first look.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency plans to buy additional Ground-Based Interceptors and activate another two missile silos at Fort Greely, Alaska.

Orbital ATK has eased the margins on its Antares launch vehicle after the performance it turned in last fall with a new Russian-built rocket engine.

Norwegian aerospace and defense company Nammo said June 12 it will buy Moog’s in-space propulsion businesses in the UK and Ireland.

Germany is to move its Panavia Tornado reconnaissance aircraft from Turkey to Jordan after a long-running diplomatic spat with Ankara.

U.S. Air Force F-35As at Luke AFB, Arizona, are still temporarily grounded as a government-industry team works to find the root cause of five incidents of hypoxia-like symptoms on the new fighter in the last month.

The Cygnus resupply spacecraft's mission-ending re-entry took place east of New Zealand just before 2 p.m. EDT, following a successful weeklong demonstration of commercial, multi-mission spacecraft activities away from the space station.

General Electric announced June 12 that Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt will retire this year and be succeeded by John Flannery, current president and CEO of GE Healthcare.