Defense and Space

Saab unveiled a modified version of the GlobalEye AEW aircraft, at the South Korean Air Force’s Aerospace Conference 2023 on May 2.

Battery safety specialist KULR Technology Group has been awarded a U.S. Army contract to develop a high-energy battery platform for aviation applications.

Apollo Global Management and Arconic announced May 4 that the private equity giant will take the aluminum sheet supplier private.

Europe’s space and telecommunication heavyweights have formed a consortium to bid for the European Union’s IRIS² satellite constellation.

Thai satellite service provider and operator Thaicom has entered a partnership with Japan’s Synspective to provide synthetic aperture radar satellite services.

The 4-hr. flight of the modified Gulfstream G550 business jet from Waco, Texas, begins the L3Harris’ flight test phase of the Compass Call mission system.

The U.S. State Department has approved the transfer of eight surplus Bell AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Z Venom helicopters to the Czech Republic.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions’ revenue increased 18.1% year-on-year to $231.8 million in the first quarter of 2023.

Five years after a reorganization of its maintenance, repair, and overhaul organization, France’s defense ministry is drawing lessons from the efforts.

U.S. Air Force Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach has been tapped to be the next commander of the service’s Air Combat Command.

Estonia has acquired loitering munitions from Israel as part of an effort to bolster the country’s armed forces following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Taiwan’s ministry of national defense has revealed that the delivery of the first of 66 Lockheed Martin F-16V fighters will be delayed for nearly a year.

The Italian Navy is taking extra steps to ensure the serviceability and reliability of its SH-90 naval helicopters.

The resourcing of solid rocket motors has been a key priority for the Pentagon, with the surge of munitions shipped to Ukraine highlighting the limited supply.

Cosmonauts made progress with an upgrade to the International Space Station (ISS) Russian segment’s Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.

The pacing item to return to flight may be the automated destruct safety system.

The F-35’s hot production line is one bright spot for the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program.

Iran is preparing its first indigenous light military transport aircraft—Simorgh—for its first flight.

Stratolaunch is targeting a key separation test of its Talon hypersonic test vehicle before the end of May.

Turkish Aerospace is developing a family of uncrewed combat air vehicles (UCAV) based on its newly developed Anka-3 platform.

The U.S. has announced it will commit thousands of unguided air-to-ground rockets to Ukraine.

The Air Force’s future ground-moving target indication capability from space will be a scaled-up version of an existing NRO-designed constellation.

Mercury Systems had a respectable fiscal 3Q, but overshadowing the performance was significant pressure on margins tied to slow-moving development programs.

Turkish Aerospace currently plans to deliver the first three helicopters to Turkey’s military police, the Jandarma, this year.

ST Engineering says the Veloce 60 (V60) vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) drone is in its final stage of development and nearing production.