Defense

The House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee will allow the U.S. Air Force to continue to chip away at its C-130 and legacy tanker fleets under its markup of the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill.

Raytheon Technologies, the Super Tier 1 aerospace supplier and large defense prime contractor, will move its corporate headquarters this year to Arlington, Virginia, home of the Pentagon and across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.

In a bid to overcome a “hypersonic valley of death” for high-speed technologies, the U.S. Navy is soliciting ideas for an experimental hypersonic glide body that can be used for testing several payloads at speeds of more than Mach 5 on each flight.

NASA has selected two new science investigation missions for launch to the Moon under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services public/private exploration initiative.

Northrop Grumman has been developing a turbojet-powered loitering munition called Jackal with 300-mph speed and a 15-min. loiter capability at a range of 100 km (62 mi.), the company says.

Navy boss says expeditionary EA-18Gs are not core to its role as a service.

HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS is expected to acquire six used 767s for conversion into tankers for Indian Air Force under license from ISRAEL AEROSPACE

AEROPLEX signed MOU with Embraer to become authorized KC-390 maintenance center for Hungarian Defence Forces.

Boeing has released concepts of two different, carrier-compatible missiles—one powered by a dual-combustion scramjet and the other by a high-supersonic ramjet—for the first time.

NASA’s first Space Launch System Moon rocket is back at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B for a fourth attempt to test fueling operations ahead of launch on the Artemis I uncrewed flight test around the Moon.

The UK is giving some of its M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems to Ukraine as the country seeks longer range systems to target Russia’s heavy artillery.

Germany is planning to purchase utility helicopters and enlarge its Boeing P-8 Poseidon fleet with €100 billion ($107 billion) from its special defense modernization fund.

China has launched another three astronauts into space as construction of the Tiangong space station enters its next phase.

The Australian and Canadian governments say Chinese fighters have intercepted and harassed their maritime patrol aircraft, with one Chinese aircraft releasing chaff that was ingested into the engines of a Royal Australia Air Force P-8 Poseidon.

Boeing’s space business notches a win, but many questions remain about the company’s long-term future. Listen in as analysts Byron Callan and Ron Epstein join the podcast.

The U.S. Army wants to experiment with eVTOL aircraft for logistics.

In recent years, Turkey has proved to be a mercurial, if not problematic, partner.

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury has called for enhanced European cooperation on defense procurement and for EU member states to be more supportive of Europe’s defense industry.

A high-speed sled was recovered after accelerating to around Mach 5.6 on a 10-mi.-long, 9-in.-wide monorail track in the New Mexico desert, the U.S. Air Force said on June 2.

Russia’s Progress MS-20 linked to the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment on June 3, completing a two-orbit launch to docking to deliver a 3-ton cargo of propellant, drinking water, food and other supplies for the orbital lab’s seven crewmembers.

Bern’s Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport says it can sign contracts before the “Stop F-35” initiative can be voted on.

The U.S. Air Force is planning a flight deck upgrade to avoid expected obsolescence issues and a lack of spares that could ground the C-17 fleet.

GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, has said Vision 2030 will to bolster the Saudi Arabia’s defence sector.

SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA announced formation of SONY SPACE COMMUNICATIONS CORP. to develop small optical comms devices for LEO microsatellites

Defense department is responding to threats from China, as well as pressure from the U.S.