Defense

The 212-ft. core stage will be used for the agency’s Artemis II mission.

Clayton Turner, the director of NASA’s Langley Research Center, was named the STMD acting administrator.

The mission is planned to launch to the lunar south pole in late 2024.

Australian and Canadian companies have emerged as winners in the UK’s £1 billion ($1.3 billion) effort to develop a hypersonic weapon.

KBR’s board unanimously OK’d the purchase, but it is subject to certain regulatory approvals prior to closing.

Lockheed Martin has announced a series of offset items for Thailand should it choose the F-16 Blk. 70/72 package.

Senate authorizers want to take almost all of the remaining funding away from the U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2025 budget request for its next-generation F/A-XX fighter.

The French Air and Space Force is forming a new squadron with the Rafale now that manufacturer Dassault has resumed deliveries of the fighter to France.

Italy's acquisition of 24 new Eurofighters, referred to as F-2000s, enables the air force to replace its Tranche 1 Eurofighters.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that the UK's new strategic defense review will bolster what he called “our hollowed-out armed forces.”

German defense startup Donaustahl says it will supply Ukraine with an unspecified number of Maus loitering munitions.

ESA has given the provisional go-ahead for a mission to fly by the Apophis asteroid in 2029 as part of planetary defense, with NASA also sending Osiris-Apex.

A new government is pivoting its defense priorities and realigning relations with Europe.

PRATT & WHITNEY completed the F135 Engine Core Upgrade's (ECU) preliminary design review (PDR) on schedule.

Defense tech startups raised $9.1 billion in the first half of 2024 compared to $34.9 billion for all of 2023 and $35.8 billion in 2022, a new report says.

The SASC says it wants a progress report on the Pentagon’s efforts to field new capabilities to monitor air or ground targets in real time from space.

Chinese privately funded launch company iSpace has suffered its fourth failure in seven launch attempts.

Acquisition and budget documents point to the quiet emergence of a third capability: signals intelligence.

The Taiwanese ministry of national defense (MND) says flight control software issues were the primary cause of delays.

A longevity, thrust and fuel efficiency upgrade for the Lockheed Martin F-35 has passed a preliminary design review (PDR) milestone, Pratt & Whitney says.

As part of the review, the Pentagon rescinded the Sentinel program’s Milestone B approval from 2020.

The magnetic field of Jupiter, the Solar System’s largest planet, is 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s.

Saudi Arabia’s SAMI (Saudi Arabia Military Industries), a Saudi Public Investment, created in January 2018 is expanding at quite a ferocious pace. That’s been a priority for CEO Walid Abukhaled, who has worked hard to ensure SAMI meets the objectives of Saudi Vision 2030, with the need to localise 50 per cent of Saudi’s defence spending a top priority. Alan Warnes investigates.

Beta Technologies says it has completed two more evaluation deployments for the U.S. Air Force with its prototype Alia electric aircraft.

After months of preparation, Ukraine is about to receive its first batch of F-16s to help it battle Russia.