Defense

The Senegalese military has been undertaking a major equipment recapitalisation effort over the past few years.

The U.S. government will rewrite the rulebook for aerial objects flying over U.S. airspace, President Joe Biden said.

U.S. pushes for more Ukraine aid; U.S. tankers grounded; Polish MQ-9 flights to start; and replacing Russian platforms.

NASA is seeking commercial space station design feedback from the U.S. aerospace industry on two fronts.

GE Aerospace is beginning design work for a production standard version of the XA100 adaptive engine for the Lockheed Martin F-35.

The USAF still expects first flight this year of the Northrop Grumman LGM-35A Sentinel missile, despite a reported schedule slip and test failure.

Although the club is not pointing fingers, there are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts community.

NASA has launched a two-phase crowdsourcing competition to develop a Mars virtual reality testbed to help prepare for human expeditions there.

European countries need to “reconverge” their space efforts, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said as he reported lower profits for Airbus' Defense and Space unit.

Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI) has confirmed the return of the World Defence Show for a second edition.

The range of IAI’s LORA Weapon System would provide new options for India's armed forces.

A U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk on a training flight Feb. 15 crashed in Huntsville, Alabama, killing two people on board.

Virgin Galactic completed the first test flight of the VMS Eve carrier aircraft at Mojave, California, on Feb. 15.

Astranis has won a contract to show its software-defined radio-satellite payload can transmit the Defense Department’s Protected Tactical Wave.

The United Arab Emirates’ first interplanetary spacecraft is expanding its studies at Mars to include flybys of the planet’s small outer moon, Deimos.

NATO members are expected to agree to increase defense spending as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shown a greater need to invest in militaries.

The U.S. government has approved BAE to integrate the AAR-57 Common Missile Warning System with Leonardo’s Miysis Directed Infrared Countermeasure system.

The U.S. Air Force is grounding its workhorse Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker fleet temporarily, along with reconnaissance variants.

Denmark and Sweden have become the latest signatories to a NATO initiative to overcome potential gaps in the alliance’s ground-based air defense systems.

India plans to direct three-fourths of its defense budget to purchasing new equipment for domestic industry in fiscal 2023-24.

A new wave of modernization priorities are set to be unveiled in the next U.S. Air Force budget request.

Babcock will manage and operate the UK Defense Ministry’s communication satellite constellation Skynet, winning out against competition from Airbus and others.

South Africa’s presidential jet aircraft, a Boeing 737 BBJ, operated by the VIP transport squadron (21 Squadron) of the South African Air Force (SAAF), was badly damaged on 6 February.

Defence analysts are questioning mission protocols following a deadly sniper attack on a South African Air Force (SAAF) Oryx medium transport helicopter in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on 5 February 2023.

As India is in talks with Egyptian and Argentinian officials over a possible deal to supply 35 aircraft of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) Tejas LCA Mk-1A; Chandan Kumar Nayak, defence analyst at GlobalData, offers his view.