Defense and Space

Norway has joined the growing number of C-130J Hercules operators to begin upgrading its aircraft to the Block 8.1 standard.

Even though the current Hawk T2 fleet is not due for retirement until 2040, groundwork planning needs to begin now for a program to replace the Hawk.

Collaboration defines the operational role of a new class of autonomous combat systems as well a new model for foreign industry partners.

Fully funded and hardware-rich, Blue Origin readies for orbital operations.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Flight directors at Intuitive Machines’ mission control center were working to refine the signal from its Nova-C lander, which touched down on the Moon Feb. 22.

FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) faces long-running challenges in addressing safety concerns for human commercial spaceflight passengers.

After reentering the atmosphere and deploying its parachute, Varda Space Industries’ space capsule touched down at the Utah Test and Training Range on Feb. 21.

The Indian government on Feb. 21 eased its space sector’s foreign direct investment (FDI) restrictions.

Over the past few months, the service, largely through its newly renamed Airman Development Command (ADC), has released a series of requests for information.

British defense ministers have outlined plans to accelerate the provision of uncrewed systems across all four branches of the UK’s armed services.

The U.S. Space Force has taken its Victus Nox satellite out of orbit less than five months after it demonstrated the tactically responsive space launch mission.

SINGAPORE—Potential customers are curious about the improvements included in the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk modernization program.

Ukraine will begin receiving F-16 combat aircraft this summer, the Danish government has announced.

Despite losing the energy market, Airbus has sold about 100 H225s in five years and aims to repeat that before the turn of the decade.

New command, Pentagon offices will be tasked with solely looking at future acquisition.

Requiring manufacturers to pay a third of the cost and then suddenly canceling a program results in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost funding.

Singaporean defense firm ST Engineering has signed deals to provide support for the Airbus C295 and Embraer C-390 transports.

JetZero says it is poised to begin flight tests of a subscale version of its full-scale blended wing body multirole demonstrator in the next few weeks.

CANADIAN ARMED FORCES has acquired ex-Kuwait Airways A330-200 (1678) for converstion to MRTT configuration.

Lockheed Martin plans to select local partners in India this summer to support sales for the C-130J, including the selection of a final assembly provider.

GlobalFoundries (GF) has been awarded $1.5 billion through the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act that will be used to manufacture secure chips.

Embraer is confident that its KC-390 transport aircraft is compatible with the Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport, its simulations have shown.

Boeing has delivered the first MQ-25 Stingray to the U.S. Navy for testing, the company announced Feb. 21.

The U.S. Air Force is finally nearly ready to start flight testing a communications pod for the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus.