Saab says it began testing a gallium-nitride fighter radar more than a year ago and has verified that the sensor is ready for production, although the complete system has not flown.
U.S.-European wargames in Virginia; Germany receives Airbus helos for special forces; Northrop tests counter-UAV system with U.S. Army; Ilyushin delivers heavy-lift transporter to Russian air force.
A U.K. defense electronics firm has been selected to develop a data link capable of transmitting real-time imagery and video from high-altitude UAVs using 3G cellular standards technology.
Amphibious warfare defensive weaponry could present the U.S. Marine Corps with unique obstacles in getting people and materiel from ship to shore, a CRS report notes.
Key members of the U.S. Navy and Royal Malaysian Navy sub forces met at Polaris Point, Guam, to review and establish plans for joint training and exercises.
India is preparing for the first test of an electric propulsion technology that will help shrink the size of its rockets and increase the life and payload capacity of its satellites.
Pentagon thinkers consider a life beyond Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) and Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) systems as reliance on and vulnerability to satcom systems grows.
PARIS and HOUSTON -- France has repaired a vacuum-chamber leak in a key science instrument that will fly aboard the NASA-led InSight lander mission slated to launch to Mars in early 2016. Engineers at French space agency CNES are now testing the repair to the InSight lander’s SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) instrument to ensure it will maintain the degree of vacuum necessary to carry out its mission.
India is likely to sign an agreement with France to buy 36 Rafale fighter aircraft off the shelf during a visit here by French President Francois Hollande in January.
JAXA experts are assessing the orbital characteristics of the Akatsuki/Venus Climate Orbiter spacecraft following a 20-min. firing of reaction control system thrusters.