Defense

Expectations for India must be tempered by its low GDP per capita and other hurdles to becoming a large player on the global stage. Some of the buzz is warranted.

Ursa Major Technologies, manufacturer of liquid rocket motors for launch vehicles, plans to offer 3D printed solid rocket motors for munitions.

SpaceX's Super Heavy booster unexpectedly broke apart after separation from Starship, which was subsequently also lost when its automated flight termination system triggered.

A market survey suggests the U.S. Air Force is open to other platforms to replace the 757-200-derived C-32.

X-Bow Systems, a startup that 3D prints solid rocket motors and propellants, has closed an “interim funding round” led by Lockheed Martin Ventures.

It was another agency milestone in efforts to significantly step up the pace of space communications.

Thales and Schiebel have teamed to develop a global market approach to promote the Austrian developed rotary-wing uncrewed aircraft system S-100 Camcopter.

Germany looks set to increase its purchase of Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.

Sweden has joined the growing list of nations to adopt MBDA’s Sea Ceptor missile system to protect its Visby-class corvette warships.

Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler has confirmed the country’s interest in a potential acquisition of Eurofighter Typhoons.

The Nov. 15 test served two purposes—as a carrier-proving flight for the Mojave and as a demonstration of the largest crewless aircraft on a Royal Navy ship.

The spacecraft is the Pentagon’s first experimental navigation satellite in nearly 50 years.

The Indonesian Air Force says four people died when two of its Embraer A-29 Super Tucano counterinsurgency aircraft crashed into a mountainside.

Sierra Space has laid off 165 full-time employees in addition to contractors after it shipped the company’s first Dream Chaser spaceplane for prelaunch tests.

Ispace of Tokyo plans to make a second attempt to land an uncrewed spacecraft on the Moon as soon as the fourth quarter of 2024.

Launch of the second integrated flight test of SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy vehicle was rescheduled for Nov. 18.

The resumption of military-to-military talks between the U.S. and China will start with theater commanders.

The company said its digitally designed engine has completed a digital preliminary design review.

Nevertheless, the British manufacturer is raising its financial expectations for both 2023 and 2024.

Carol Craig, founder and CEO of Sidus, announced the move while reporting third-quarter 2023 financial results on Nov. 14.

Oslo says it wants to increase its number of Nasams batteries and improve versatility by adding new weapons options to the system.

Catherine Koerner will succeed Jim Free as associate administrator of the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, it has been announced.

The UAE military will purchase 100 Reach-S tactical UAS from the country's main defense contractor Edge Group.

Dubai Airshow exceeded all expectations when it came to Advanced Aerial Mobility. And, the Gulf region demonstrated a clear commitment to embracing the development of the sector from eVTOLs to vertiports.

The Raytheon SM-6s will be fitted onto the new South Korean Navy KDX Batch II destroyers, the first of which—christened Jeongjo the Great—has begun sea trials.