NASA doesn’t believe Orbital ATK can meet its announced schedule for returning its Antares commercial-cargo launcher to flight in the wake of last year’s explosion.
The company has been using the DSEi defense exhibition here to market the weapon as a potential alternative to the Lockheed Martin AGM-114 Hellfire and its planned U.S. replacement, the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile.
An upgraded version of Saab’s Giraffe AMB (Agile Multi-Beam) radar showed that it could discriminate between small UAVs and seabirds in recent trials on the west coast of Scotland, the company says.
Amid reports that the U.S. Navy may cancel construction of DDG 1002 Lyndon B. Johnson, service officials say work continues on the ship as planned, although the Zumwalt-class acquisition program is being reviewed.
After a series of certification issues, L-3 says it is making progress on the modification program for its Bombardier Q400-based multi-mission aircraft demonstrator.
The U.S. Air Force’s cybersecurity chief is confident in his service’s ability to protect its networks, but sees the protection of platforms such as fighter aircraft and satellites as his next major challenge.
DDG 64 USS Carney departed its homeport of Mayport, Florida, earlier this month to travel to Rota, Spain, as the final of four Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers to be forward deployed there.
Poland buys U.S. cruise missiles; General Atomics delivers MQ-9 Reapers; preventing hypoxia; secure voice communication systems for helos; new Czech trainer demonstrator.
Top NASA managers have delayed the “committed” target for the first flight of its $11.5 billion Orion crew vehicle with astronauts on board from August 2021 until April 2023.
MBDA has delivered production components for the Sea Ceptor air defense missile system (ADMS) for the Royal Navy frigate Argyll, the first of its Type 23 Duke-class ships to be retrofitted with the new weapon.
Two of the Air Force’s top generals say that a podded, tactical laser is likely to be ready for operational use on aircraft by 2020, a major breakthrough in a technology that has been under slow but steady development for decades.
Two of the Air Force’s top generals say that a podded, tactical laser is likely to be ready for operational use on aircraft by 2020, a major breakthrough in a technology that has been under slow but steady development for decades.
The U.K. defense ministry says the arrival of the fourth aircraft to Brize Norton on Sept. 10, along with the handover of three other aircraft allows them to declare the type’s capability to undertake extended world-wide tasks.
The Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit North Island is providing trainers for fleet technicians on the H-60 Sea Hawk helicopter airframe.
Lockheed Martin says its SC-130J Sea Hercules, envisioned for an anticipated U.K. requirement for a maritime patrol/multimission aircraft, could be ready for service by the end of the decade.
