Defense

Boeing has unveiled a redefined scalable configuration for potential development as a tactical airlifter C-130 replacement or a C-17-sized strategic transport.

The Pentagon on Jan. 25 issued an updated version of its decade-old guidance governing the development of autonomous systems.

Boeing recorded a net loss of more than $5 billion in 2022, at least 17% worse than in 2021, but sales rose 7% year-over-year to $66.6 billion.

All deliveries from the sole-source contract are expected to be completed within two years of the award of an $87 million, sole-source contract.

Leonardo has delivered the first of 18 skidded-landing variant AW169M intermediate-light twin-engine helicopters to the Guardia di Finanza.

Kuwait has upgraded its defence with the multi-role Bayraktar TB2 platform developed by Turkey’s Baykar. The contract is valued at $370 million. The number of units has not been revealed.

It was Rocket Lab’s first from the Wallops Island facility, opening a new venue for the Electron rocket and marking a new beginning for the Virginia spaceport.

Researchers see a novel way to free up volume and electricity within small-satellite buses.

The last undelivered 747-8Is are being converted into presidential aircraft for the USAF under a nearly $7 billion development project, including cost overruns.

Europe’s industry is exploring the role of cybertechniques as a means to defeat increasingly advanced air defenses.

LOCKHEED MARTIN had $5.7b net income on $66b sales in 2022 vs $6.3b on $67b in 2021and ended year with $150b backlog.

It is time to complete space programs that have been long-standing thorns in the side of the U.S. military, a U.S. Air Force official says.

Despite technical glitches, Ariane 6’s final test campaign is now well underway.

Col. Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Forces Command, said the type of aircraft likely to be provided has been determined.

Canada’s parliamentary auditing agency has launched an independent review of the government’s decision to acquire 88 F-35As.

Raytheon Technologies will merge its two defense divisions under the Raytheon brand.

MightyFly has unveiled its second-generation uncrewed cargo aircraft, the Cento.

The technology is intended to reduce the transit time for human expeditions and science missions to Mars and other deep space destinations.

The survey proposes to save the Navy billions of dollars that would be otherwise spent on qualifying a trainer jet to land aboard an aircraft carrier.

The delayed milestone keeps the program on track for a rescheduled first delivery of the upgraded, single-engine fighter to the Royal Bahrain Air Force.

The delivery comes 44 years after the twin-engine platform was first fielded by the Army and 49 years since the first flight in October 1974.

The 550th Helicopter Squadron will be activated in February at Malmstrom AFB, with a five-year mission to support MH-139 training and testing.

Once returned to Earth in 2033, the samples will join those gathered by the Apollo astronauts at the Moon and those from other destinations.

The propulsion flowpath test announced on Jan. 24 by Blue Force Technologies helps to validate the digital model used to design the Fury fighter.

The UAE’s EDGE, a provider of advanced technology and defence groups, has made a strategic investment with unmanned traffic management provider High Lander.