Defense

Sailors aboard aircraft carrier CVN 72 USS Abraham Lincoln completed no-load testing on catapult one in January.

The U.S. Navy recently awarded a follow-on, omnibus contract to General Dynamics Mission Systems that continues a broad scope of work for fire control systems and subsystems aboard the U.S. Navy’s and U.K. Royal Navy’s nuclear ballistic-missile submarines (SSBN),

The ability of the Rooivalk Attack helicopter will be shown to an audience during a three day demonstration this week.

Luxembourg aims to become a hub of European space exploration under a new government-backed initiative that will promote the mining of minerals from asteroids and other near Earth objects.

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The burgeoning space economy needs government regulation before it spins out of control, a young conservative House Republican congressman urged space-industry representatives Feb. 2.

The new U.S. defense budget to be published Feb. 9 will include initial development of an “arsenal plane” which would operate in conjunction with Lockheed Martin F-22s and F-35s and “act as a very large magazine,” according to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has begun test flying the airframe of the Anka S version of its Anka medium altitude, long endurance UAV.

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.

After steering through initial headwinds, India has finally rolled out the first prototype of its Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40 (HTT-40).

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.

The National Commission on the Future of the Army has proposed a compromise on the controversial plan to shift Boeing Apache attack helicopters.

Low-boom supersonics heads NASA’s flight-demonstrator options, but advanced subsonic transports are also in the mix

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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.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $25.7 million contract to begin risk-reduction work on the next Air Force One.

F-35s fly with speed and g restrictions – and most weapon tests needed special treatment to hit the target, according to a Pentagon test report.

The Malaysian government has selected MD Helicopter’s new MD530G as the country’s attack helicopter.

A commercial launch of Russia’s Proton M/Briz M rocket successfully orbited the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite Jan. 29.

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.