Both the MH-60R and MH-60S Seahawk helicopter models face testing challenges for certain specific missions, according to a recently released report by the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) office.
The U.S. Marine Corps is considering resetting its Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion heavy helicopter fleet in order to address concerns about poor reliability and readiness.
The U.K. defense ministry will spend £1.1 billion ($1.58 billion) on the modernization of fixed-wing flying training for the country’s three armed services.
While the proposed Aegis combat system improvements are generally going well, the U.S. Navy faces some testing hurdles, a recently released report by the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation office says.
With China on the rise and maritime territorial disputes growing in the Asia-Pacific region, Okinawa is becoming more important for U.S. strategic interests, according to the Congressional Research Service.
U.S. Air Force orders for the Lockheed Martin F-35A Joint Strike Fighter could be cut back in the fiscal 2017 budget, to be published Feb. 9, according to Katherine Blakeley, budget research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
U.S.-built electric microspray thrusters operating in the micro-Newton thrust range have checked out on the European Space Agency's Lisa Pathfinder gravity-wave spacecraft.
French defense procurement agency DGA has ordered four new Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules airlifters from the U.S. Air Force in an effort to make up for capabilities shortfalls and delayed deliveries of the Airbus A400M.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s December memo directing the U.S. Navy to reduce its proposed Littoral Combat Ship buy and pick only one design raises a number of questions, according to a recent Congressional Research Service report.
The Cameroonian armed forces have been in bitter conflict with Boko Haram (now Islamic State's west Africa province) since 2014 in a bid to prevent the terrorists from expanding their foothold in the country's northern territory. Erwan de Cherisey reports.
“We’re couple of weeks away from finishing the telescope,” said Lee Feinberg, the optical telescope element manager, during a press briefing in the balcony overlooking the clean room where the work is taking place.
China has confirmed a schedule for major steps this year in its manned space program, with plans to send astronauts to a second orbital laboratory in preparation for building a space station.
The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) X-2 fighter technology demonstrator, formerly called ATD-X, is due to fly in February, testing systems that Japan’s defense technology agency is preparing for a possible future combat aircraft.
The Navy’s Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) began its Government Acceptance Test (GAT) earlier this month on a critical meteorological system.
