Defense

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

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.

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.

The Indian Defense Research and Development Organization has devised an automated landing system that is being put to the test on two N-LCA platforms.

Congress says no to U.S. Air Force buying electric aircraft, but the program continues.

Virgin Orbit believes it has identified what caused the premature shut down of LauncherOne’s second-stage Newton 4 engine over the Atlantic.

Demand for conducting experiments on the ISS National Laboratory remains strong after 75 payloads were sent to the orbiting platform last year.

The U.S. and partners must continue to deliver air defenses, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said following a meeting of the Ukraine Contact Group.

Joby Aviation announced that it has begun final assembly of its first partially-conforming S4 electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.

The leading explanation is that the three downed high-altitude objects were “benign” and tied to a commercial or other civilian purpose, officials say.

The U.S. sees a diplomatic and industrial opportunity in the number of countries looking for alternatives to their existing Russian-built platforms.

The UK Royal Navy is set to operate Schiebel’s Camcopter rotary-wing uncrewed air system from its Type 23 frigates.

The platforms will be used by the Polish Air Force with their operations likely focused along the country’s border with Belarus and Russian exclave Kaliningrad.

Australia ditches problematic European choppers for U.S. ones.

The launch of the uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spaceship to the International Space Station has been postponed until early March.

President Joe Biden has ordered his national security team to begin a review of the policy implications of the series of sightings of unidentified objects.

The X-62A demonstrated “AI agents” developed by EpiSci, PhysicsAI, Shield AI and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for a prototype small high-frequency direction-finding antenna that it could mount on a fixed-wing aircraft.

The DRDO chairman discusses India's plans to increase exports and for development of a future fighter aircraft, missile defense systems and UAS.

Lockheed Martin is not giving up on its bid to sell the F-21, a specialized F-16 variant, to the Indian Air Force.

The first U.S. surveillance fleet with a craft beer as a namesake inherits a counter-drug spy mission flown by a four-decade-old string of modified turboprops.

Axiom Space’s second four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station will include two astronauts from Saudi Arabia.

Thermoplastic fuselage; Tailless flight control; Robotic sheet-metal forming; Hydrogen aviation ecosystem.

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