Defense

When it comes to modernizing a U.S. Navy cruiser – even in phases – getting the ship ready is a mission unto itself.
Defense

The U.S. export credit agency is back but needs a board of directors. Meanwhile, the fight continues over Russian RD-180 rocket engines.
Defense

Congressional restrictions on U.S. space activities have left the European Space Agency in a better position to guide international space cooperation, ESA’s new director general says.
Defense

France ordered its third MQ-9 Reaper system on Dec. 7, a three-UAV acquisition to be delivered in 2019.
Defense

System-performance improvements should allow space-based ADS-B provider Aireon to offer ANSPs with both terrestrial and oceanic ADS-B surveillance capabilities.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Semiconductor technology that would eliminate bulky optical telescopes and enable lightweight, low-cost light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors for foliage penetration, collision avoidance, robotic vision and optical communications is to be developed under a new five-year, $58 million Darpa program.
Defense

Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, California, earlier this month hosted a live-fire test of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The U.K.’s unmanned combat air vehicle technology demonstrator, Taranis, has completed a third round of flight trials.
Defense

As the Pentagon gets ready to buy new submarines, bombers and missiles to support the U.S. nuclear strategy, the hunt for national funding continues to help cut costs of the SSBN boomer-submarine fleet.
Defense

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russian Helicopters says it has delivered five Mil Mi-171Sh military transport rotorcraft to the Bangladesh defense ministry.
Defense

Sagem has joined with AOI-Aircraft Factory to offer its Patroller unmanned vehicle to the Egyptian armed forces.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Gallium nitride semiconductors are upgrading electronic warfare, easing communications and improving radar.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Gallium nitride and ceramic composites have their mettle tested in the name of missile research.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
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.
Defense

By Antoine Gelain
A customer-supplier model based on mutual trust and long-term commitment is the key.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Antonov diplomatically refers to the situation with Russia as an “interruption of cooperation with the northern neighbor."
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
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.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
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.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully grappled Orbital ATK’s latest Cygnus cargo mission capsule early Dec. 9.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has delivered its first H125 AStar single-engine helicopter from its newly established assembly line in Columbus, Mississippi.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters is performing flight tests of Turbomeca’s Ardiden 3C turboshaft engine on its prototype H175/EC175 for its Chinese partner.
Defense

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.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Regular operations of the Akatsuki/Venus Climate Orbiter are targeted for April 2016, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency reported.
Defense

Vice Adm. Thomas Rowden, the U.S. Navy Surface Force Commander, is starting to better hone his concept on distributed lethality.
Defense

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.
Defense