Defense

The U.S. Air Force needs to open up its high-end training ranges and exercises to AI and machine learning, its top civilian sasys.

The future seems bright for Embraer’s C-390 assembly line surrounded by sugar cane fields in Gaviao Peixoto, Brazil.

The U.S. Army faces a longer wait for its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon though DOD officials say the launcher problem should not impact the Navy’s CPS program.

Ken Bedingfield, a former chief financial officer at Northrop Grumman, is taking the same position at L3Harris Technologies, the latter announced Dec. 4.

A contract dispute between F-35 maker Lockheed Martin and key supplier Howmet Aerospace has become public with a Lockheed lawsuit and a vocal Howmet defense.

Intuitive Machines’ initial Nova-C lunar lander has arrived at Cape Canaveral for a launch under a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services agreement.

Auditors have determined the UK Defense Ministry’s plans to purchase equipment over the next 10 years are again unaffordable.

A new South Korean rocket launched a reconnaissance satellite using a rocket that included a solid rocket motor for the first time.

The Defense Acquisition Program Administration announced the Embraer C-390 as the winner of the Large Transport Aircraft-II contract on Dec. 4.

OEM NHIndustries has purchased Australia’s spare parts pool and its fleet of NH90s after Canberra decided to withdraw the type over availability and costs.

The UK Defense Ministry says Cawdor Barracks, formerly a U.K. Royal Air Force flight training base, has been named as the preferred DARC site.

Most fighter aircraft made in the U.S. are in line to get improved radar warning receivers and self-protection jammers.

Captive carry test flight moves Stratolaunch closer to first flight of Talon hypersonic test vehicle

Plans for an automated docking were changed because the cargo capsule was slightly out of alignment as it approached the ISS.

Gen. David Allvin is taking charge of a service undergoing change in almost all aspects of its force structure

U.S. Air Force has awarded contracts to start CCA work.

Lockheed Martin plans to launch to space a wideband electronically steerable antenna.

Space launch activity reached an all-time high in 2023, but public new-space company valuations remain pressured.

The Russian space agency’s Progress MS-25 resupply capsule began a two-day, 34-orbit trajectory to the International Space Station early Dec. 1.

NASA is unlikely to return astronauts to the Moon’s surface by December 2025 with its Artemis III mission, a GAO audit says.

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The UK RAF has selected the BAE Systems Stingray lightweight torpedo to arm its P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.

Portugal appears to be moving toward an acquisition of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, statements by the country’s air chief suggest.

Airbus Helicopters has completed first flight of a helicopter from the German Navy's new fleet of NHIndustries NH90s.

In Benin, the Force Aerienne du Benin (Benin Air Force) has received two H125M and three AS332M1 Super Puma helicopters as part of international contributions aimed at aiding the country’s fight against terrorism.