Defense

With the Indian prime minister heading to Paris in April, all eyes are on the export of French combat jets to the Indian air force.

As the Netherlands gets ready to fly its F-35s in 2019, senior commanders are thinking about how to fill a technological training gap between the Talon and the Lightning II.

Saab, through its local South African company, Saab Grintek Defence (Pty) Ltd has received follow-on orders from Hindustan Aeronautic Limited (HAL), India, for serial production of an integrated electronic warfare self-protection system for installation on the Indian Army's and Air Force's Advanced Light Helicopter Dhruv. The orders have a total value of approximately R940million.

The U.S. Air Force is balancing between losing capability and meeting an urgent request to equip Air National Guard Lockheed Martin F-16s assigned to homeland defense with active electronically scanned array radars to detect small radar cross-section targets, such as cruise missiles.

Despite failed attempts to retire the A-10, the U.S. Air Force looks to a new generation of technologies and tactics for close air support mission.

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In his final months as head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz laid the foundation for the country’s military vision over the next decade. The “IDF 2025” study addressed all theaters of warfare—air, naval and land—and diverse operations: urban and subterranean; unmanned systems; command, control and communications; training; logistics; homeland defense, and legal aspects.

Paramount Group’s new Advanced High-performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft is on the way to full production by 2017.

Hardly a month goes by without news of successful Aegis combat system tests, especially when it comes to ballistic missile defense improvements and operations.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are setting new standards for air support of ground maneuver operations, say Israel Air Force (IAF) officials, after reviewing lessons from Operation Protective Edge, the military campaign in Gaza last summer. To aid ground forces under attack, IAF disregarded existing safety regulations and dropped hundreds of 2,000-lb. bombs as close as 100 meters (328 ft.) from friendly forces.

French air force Chief Gen. Denis Mercier is leading the service through sweeping changes including many that will affect the aircraft it deploys.

New sensor combines a high-definition electro-optic camera with automatic target detection algorithms to detect small maritime targets.

CTA International developing an anti-air airburst round for use against airborne targets.

Casualty modeling program developed by the U.S. Office of Naval Research predicts how soon injured crew can return to their posts.

Malaysia will probably order fighters in 2016-20 to replace a MiG-29 fleet that is already declining. The timing may be too late for the Super Hornet.

Whether the U.S. Navy keeps to the new schedule and cost estimates for the CVN 78 Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier may come down to just how well a set of redesigned fasteners for the ship's Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) survives a new round of extremely important tests.

USAF leaders have launched their so-called Bending the Cost Curve program aimed at driving drive down the cost of weapons and other systems.

The Netherlands has placed an order for its first batch of eight F-35 Lightning IIs to begin replacing its F-16 fleet in the early 2020s.

The last nine months were earth-shattering for Alcoa.

The U.S. likes to talk about international defense partnerships, but the reality is that the home industry’s interests always come first.

Further cuts to Britain’s defense spending next year could mean the U.K. falls below NATO’s requirement of 2% of GDP, prompting concerns about the country’s defense aspirations.

What could spur Alcoa to pony up maybe $5 billion in less than a year? Aerospace and defense market share

USAF and SpaceX are modifying the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement signed two years ago to outline what has become the contentious process to certify the Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket for use in launching national security payloads.

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The U.S. Air Force’s interest in a possible new close air support (CAS) platform to replace the A-10 Thunderbolt II is about “capacity,” says Air Combat Command chief Gen. Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle.