Defense

By Robert Wall
HawkEye 360 is gearing up to start deploying a new generation of its electronic intelligence spacecraft that should slash production costs.
Satellites

By Tony Osborne
Denmark is to acquire long-range precision weapons in a bid to strengthen the country’s security in the face of the new regional threat, Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Aarok, the medium-altitude, long-endurance turboprop uncrewed aircraft system developed by French company Turgis Gaillard, has made its first flight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Atmos Space Cargo is expanding its focus on the defense market, floating the idea of using its capsule to allow military users to rapidly deploy missiles from space.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
SpaceX is in talks with countries to give them sovereign satellite communications capabilities, says Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president.
Satellites

By Tony Osborne
New industry partnerships are moving the Global Combat Aircraft Program closer to its multibillion-dollar design and development contract.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Brazil and Sweden have formally launched discussions on purchasing an increased number of Saab Gripen combat for the Brazilian Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
A new House proposal to avert a government shutdown includes a provision to force the Pentagon to keep the Boeing E-7A Wedgetail program moving at pace.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Trump administration on Sept. 15 announced it would significantly loosen restrictions on international sales of uncrewed aerial systems.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Raytheon is internally testing the addition of an air-breathing propulsion system to its air- and ground-launched GBU-53/B StormBreaker.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon recently set a new record for longest AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile shot by a fifth-generation fighter.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. State Department has green-lighted Peru to acquire the Block 70 model Lockheed Martin F-16.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Copenhagen is planning to buy a fleet of Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has revealed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Portuguese uncrewed air system developer Tekever is to build its air vehicles in Swindon, England, as part of its $545 million Overmatch investment strategy.
Supply Chain

By Robert Wall
Germany is drafting a new military space architecture that will help shape the country's development plans, says the head of the German Space Command.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Robert Wall
The defense market will become the biggest growth driver for the space-based remote sensing industry, Novaspace analysts estimate.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
A new layer of high-altitude platforms carrying optical tracking sensors could be added to the U.S. missile defense architecture in the future.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Matthew Fulco
Taiwanese flight academy Apex Aviation is teaming up with Teledyne and Italy’s Tecnam on a customized maritime reconnaissance aircraft for Taiwan.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has begun conversion of the Qatari-gifted Boeing 747-8 to become a new presidential airlift aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The Swedish developers of a low-cost anti-drone effector are working on a longer-range loitering munition capable of engaging targets beyond line of sight.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Digital and additive manufacturing newcomer Divergent Technologies has closed a $290 million venture capital round, the company announced Sept. 15.
Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
UK engineers have been exploring the use of the Link 16 datalink as an initial means of commanding autonomous collaborative platforms.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Startup Certo Aerospace, developing an uncrewed co-axial rotorcraft, has won a UK Defense Ministry contract to demonstrate logistics and medevac capabilities.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems is hoping to accelerate the integration of the European Common Radar System Mk. 2 into the UK’s Eurofighter Typhoons.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

Aviation Week Network Staff
On the cover of this Paris Preview edition dated May 23, 2005, is a pair of Blk. 30 F-16s with the Air Force Air National Guard Test Center showing their Lockheed Martin Sniper XR pods, which were operating in Iraq and Afghanistan at the time on F-16s and F-15Es.
Defense