Defense

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic is building up to the first tests of the complete flight configuration rockets for its LauncherOne satellite launch vehicle.
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The U.K. Royal Air Force expects to be able to deploy its new Airbus A400M airlifter by the end of 2017.
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By Tony Osborne
Switzerland’s National Council has voted against the purchase of a pair of turboprop transport aircraft for the country’s military.
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By Graham Warwick
Development of a new powerplant for Boeing AH-64 Apache and Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters has been launched formally by the U.S. Army.
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By Tony Osborne
The U.K. is extending the intelligence gathering mission of its Raytheon Sentinel radar-reconnaissance aircraft against the Islamic State for an extra year.
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Rival Chinese companies produce Global Hawk-size prototypes. But it’s not likely to mean competition between them.
Aerospace

Boeing's new military tanker developed alongside the U.S. Air Force has successfully completed its first flight. of The KC-46A tanker aircraft took off from Paine Field at 1:24 p.m. (PST) in Seattle and landed four hours later at the nearby Boeing Field
Defense

By Jen DiMascio, Guy Norris
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. are keen to increase momentum for production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. But ongoing budget turmoil in the U.S. and elsewhere and political changes in Canada could pose real hurdles for the program.
Defense

In a U.S. Navy field test, Northrop Grumman’s AQS-24B mine-hunting system successfully demonstrated the ability to perform synthetic aperture sonar
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First flight is a major milestone to kick off testing of the refueling systems.
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First flight for the KC-46 tanker is a major milestone to kick off testing of the refueling systems in the jet.
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By Graham Warwick
AeroVironment says it has been dropped from Darpa’s Tern program.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
A series of drop tests of the small Prandtl-M from a balloon at high altitude—to simulate the atmosphere of Mars—are scheduled to begin later this year.
Defense

By Angus Batey
Watchkeeper X (WKX) will integrate different sensor packages into technology originally developed for Britain.
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The Defense Department should help small businesses that do work for the Pentagon prepare against cyber threats, a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says.
Defense

Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, rolled out his command’s unmanned systems strategy earlier this month at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 2015 Joint Undersea Warfare Conference.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption efforts could mean a more balanced and joint Chinese military, says a recent online report posted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Without a new spending bill by Sept. 30, the U.S. government could be forced to shut down.
Air Transport

Days after the Norwegian air force publicly unveiled its first Lockheed Martin F-35A at Fort Worth, state broadcaster NRK confirmed that the nation’s military is considering a 10-aircraft cut to the planned force of 52 fighters.
Defense

A U.S. Navy F/A-18E crashed earlier this month, marking the third Class A flight mishap for Super Hornets since July, according to service reports.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter program is likely to move slowly in 2016, with the finance ministry proposing funding that looks inadequate for beginning full-scale development.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is taking steps to establish a catalog of prequalified 3U and 6U CubeSat suppliers prepared to furnish their small satellites on a fixed price basis for a range of future missions.
Defense

The guided-missile destroyer DDG 66 USS Gonzalez conducted testing of a UAV during a Composite Unit Training Exercise (Comptuex), U.S. Navy officials say.
Defense

U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (Navsea) was deficient in its handling of requests for waivers and deferrals from certain operational test requirements for the SM-6 missile and a key system for identifying terrorists, a recent Pentagon Inspector General (IG) report says.
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