Defense

The contract marks the first time red-air aggressor training has been contracted to a private company by the UK.

Turkish Aerospace CEO Temel Kotil has hinted that a first flight of the country’s indigenous combat aircraft, TF-X, could be brought forward.

Libya has reportedly ordered an undisclosed number of Hürkus-C turboprops from Turkish Aerospace (TAI), with Major General Muhammad Gojil, the Libyan Air Force chief of staff, signing a formal agreement.

As development starts winding down, Saab’s Gripen E unit is focusing on improving the global fleet of C/D models and starting to consider what comes next.

The startup is studying how tumbling debris behaves.

Fan-in-wing eVTOL; 6G sensor-comms integration; Mobile hydrogen fueler; and Drive/Fly eVTOL prototype.

The LauncherOne rocket has been loaded, and technicians are preparing to fuel it in readiness for the first orbital launch from the UK, planned for Jan. 9.

The newest tranche, announced Jan. 6, amounts to about $3.075 billion in new security assistance for Ukraine.

The Gama Alpha mission aims to test the deployment and control of the 73.3-sq. 2 (789 ft. 2) sail in low Earth orbit.

The so-called swing test involved a representative six-seat vehicle in a lift-plus-cruise configuration.

Potential partners have until Jan. 24 to respond to NASA.

The company has also selected several backup dates for the mission running into mid- and late-January.

Defense spending in Saudi Arabia performed an abrupt turnaround in 2022.

The first embarkment of the NPO Mashinostroyenia 3M22 Zircon missile on the 4,500-ton Admiral Gorshkov ship comes a year later than scheduled.

The NATO pod was developed by Spanish company Sener in collaboration with General Atomics.

The system was developed from Leonardo's successful Falco family of tactical UAS.

Dealmaking slowed down in the second half of 2022, but the year ended with a bang.

The Dream Chaser’s ISS missions are the first of several orbital roles expected to be operated from Sierra Space’s mission control center.

Dense Tokyo is at the epicenter of the country’s space startups.

Raytheon has won a prime contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop a prototype for a Medium Earth Orbit Missile Track Custody system.

The move stems from a defense industrial base study that the Biden administration reported out last year.

Impulse Space plans to launch its first space tug mission, LEO Express-1, in the fourth quarter of 2023.

The more primitive Cosmic Dark Ages (CDA) are yet to be exposed.

Colombia's government failed to finalize a contract for 16 Dassault Rafales before a budget authorization deadline on Dec. 31.

The announcement came in a joint press statement released following a call between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Joe Biden on Jan. 5.