Dassault Aviation’s new Falcon 5X business jet will not enter service until the first half of 2020 due to difficulties in developing the Silvercrest engine at Safran’s Snecma motors division.
The Laser Cross Section Measurement & Imaging System, or LACSMI, will help ensure Indian warships, tanks and other platforms are harder for laser and infrared guided bombs and missiles to hit.
The sailors of DDG 78 USS Porter, a guided missile destroyer stationed in Rota, Spain, successfully completed a live-fire test from a SeaRAM missile system earlier this month.
U.S. Navy engineers have developed a new 1,000-lb. inertial actuator, or "ship shaker," that offers “unprecedented capability in full-scale testing,” the service says.
The U.S. Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) participated in exercise Ssang Yong 16 (SY16) earlier this month in and around Pohang, South Korea with local forces and those from Australia and New Zealand, the Navy says.
The U.S. Navy’s Battlespace Awareness office generates situational data for commanders. Directing the office is Capt. Jeffrey Czerewko, whose wish list includes modular software.
Whatever contributing factors account for the exact rise in spending, the major reorganization announced at the end of December and partly explained in January and February is supposed to further boost the capacity of China’s military.
Europe’s LISA Pathfinder gravitational-wave technology demonstrator was handed over to the European Space Agency (ESA) March 7 after undergoing a series of in-orbit tests led by industrial prime contractor Airbus Defense and Space.
As the Pentagon considers its options for aerial electronic attack, the focus is shifting toward the improvement of one of the primary sensors for the mission.
A European Ariane 5 ECA rocket successfully lifted the Eutelsat 65 West A satellite to geostationary transfer orbit on March 9 for Paris-based fleet operator Eutelsat.
The U.S. needs to continue developing and deploying more longer-range surface-to-surface missiles in the Asia-Pacific, and there is a shortage of submarine forces in the region as well, says Adm. Harry Harris, head of U.S. Pacific Command.
U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko emerged from more than 11 months on the International Space Station with perhaps vital clues as to whether humans are physically and psychologically up to the challenges of traveling to Mars.
NASA’s Dawn mission spacecraft has marked the end of its first year in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres with imagery of yet another curious surface feature.
