Defense

This F-35A fired 181 rounds from its four-barrel, 25 millimeter Gatling gun embedded in its left wing during ground tests at Edwards AFB earlier this month.

Team developing V-280 Valor advanced tiltrotor for U.S. Army’s mid-2030s Future Vertical Lift rotorcraft is using a full-scale cockpit mock-up to define concepts for an advanced cockpit.

Tokyo’s defense focus shifts, but budget pressures and a pacific population stand in the way of new needs

Japanese islands stand between China and free access to the Pacific. So Tokyo is concentrating on defending them.

All-new stealthy spy plane will combine the best features of the iconic U-2 with those of the unmanned Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s weather-delayed fifth resupply mission to the International Space Station embarked on a five-day trek to the six-person orbiting science laboratory early Aug. 19 with a successful liftoff from the Tanegashima Space Center.

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Findings from bone loss studies conducted on NASA space shuttle astronauts are helping to develop blood and urine tests that could ease the monitoring of osteoporosis and bone marrow cancer, according to a research team from Arizona State University and the Mayo Clinic.

India plans to buy 48 more Mi-17 V5 helicopters from Russia even as Russian Helicopters prepares to complete the delivery of a previous order for 151 of the transport aircraft to New Delhi by the end of this year.

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has delivered the first batch of T129 ATAK attack helicopters to the Turkish army.

Engineers at Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station (Navsses) are creating a 3-D model of Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s (NNSY) dry dock from laser scans taken in June to create an advance-planning 3-D layout of the site and determine optimum placement of support services during future dry dockings.

Canada plans to test a small unmanned aircraft fitted with magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) sensors to see how well a UAV flying lower and slower than manned aircraft can detect submarines, mines and other metal objects beneath or on water.

While unmanned aircraft have received bad press for forcing firefighters to halt aerial operations when one is sighted, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are widely regarded as potentially powerful tools for fighting wildfires that are becoming increasingly destructive as urban development expands into unoccupied land.

Airbus Defense and Space has demonstrated its next-generation Sferion sensor, designed to assist helicopter pilots operating in degraded visual environments.

Pentagon procurement chief Frank Kendall says he still feels Boeing can deliver on the program as planned, despite its setbacks.

U.S. Navy engineers are using high-speed video of failing lithium-ion batteries to help design safe battery enclosures on ships, the service says.

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has completed another demonstration of using a high-flying U-2 spy aircraft to support a growing variety of missions and technologies compliant with the U.S. Air Force’s open mission systems (OMS) architecture-compliant standard.

“Launching aboard the more powerful Atlas 5 allows us to better support NASA’s ISS cargo needs with a full load of about 3,500 kg of pressurized cargo, consisting of essential supplies, equipment and science experiments,” says Frank Culbertson, president of Orbital ATK’s space systems division.

For the first time in the company's history, the South Africa defence and technology group, Denel, is now ranked among the top 100 global defence manufacturers and the second largest in the southern hemisphere.

With India’s original Rafale fighter deal scrapped after years of holdups, will its naval helicopter purchase see the same fate?

The cost of ballistic missile interceptors, and the chance of failure, is high, but lasers pose their own efficiency and cost challenges.

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The U.S. intelligence community has settled on the assessment that the offending system was a Russian-made SA-11, also dubbed the Gadfly by NATO.

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The agency this week is issuing three concept development contracts for the new Multiple Object Kill Vehicle (MOKV) program, one each to Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Boeing.