Defense

Germany’s Diehl Defense has confirmed its intention to join Australia’s Sovereign Missile Alliance to help local industries develop and build guided-missile systems for the Australian Defense Force under the Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise.

Boeing will be exhibiting its advanced range of defence technologies, products, and service capabilities at the first edition of the Saudi World Defense Show (WDS 2022).

In the first two months of 2022, the industry has reverberated with sudden departures or surprising leadership changes.

Using C-130s as floatplanes and cruise missile launchers is part of AFSOC’s latest pivot to Asia.

Northrop’s Mission Robotic Vehicle to install life-extension pod on Australian Optus satellite.

NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts has selected 17 proposals for $5.1 million in Phase I and II technology development activities that could advance future space and aeronautics missions.

The Pentagon is exploring ways to deconflict U.S. and Russian aircraft as airspace over Ukraine continues to be contested, though so far there has not been interest from Moscow as the invasion continues.

Russia’s missile forces, long-range aviation and tactical aircraft had a clear mission at 4:30 a.m. in Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Sanctions imposed on Russia in response to its attack on Ukraine likely will cause the European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover to miss its 2022 launch window.

Local authorities in the Shetland Islands have given a green light for the construction of the SaxaVord Spaceport.

Launch service operator Arianespace, the European Space Agency, the EU and European governments are reviewing their options after Russian space agency Roscosmos suspended cooperation with its partners at Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

China has launched a record 22 satellites into orbit following the liftoff of a Long March CZ-8Y2 rocket from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Feb. 27.

The International Defence Industry, Technology and Security Conference (IDITSC), will take place at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), UAE on March 2 and 3, 2022.

Boeing delivered the 12th P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to India, on February 19.

One major talking point at the World Defense Show (Riyadh March 6-9) will be the modernisation programme for the Royal Saudi Air Force’s fleet of C130s – the second largest fleet in the world after the USA.

North Korea test-fired another ballistic missile on Feb. 27, which Pyongyang claims was testing equipment for a “reconnaissance satellite.”

ARPA-E funds electric; DLR opens Winglab; River rescue drone; Northrop’s Digital Shadow; Heavylift cargo UAV; Astroscale restarts demo.

Techniques developed to repair Hubble have been repurposed to shape Webb telescope’s primary mirror.

The European Union has said it will provide fighter jets to Ukraine as part of a €450 million ($502.3 million) support package of lethal aid.

Ukrainian aircraft maker Antonov deferred comment after multiple officials and news outlets reported that the An-225 Mriya heavy airlifter was destroyed during fighting at an airport near Kyiv.

Three F-35As deployed to Amaris Air Base, Estonia, and the other three landed at Siauliai Air Base, Lithuania, where they will support NATO’s Enhanced Air Policing mission “for an extended period of time,” the U.S. Air Force said Feb. 27.

President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces to assume a “special mode” of alert on Feb. 27 in response to economic sanctions and

Germany is pledging to create a €100 billion ($112.7 billion) fund for defense investment this year and is promising a dramatic uptick in annual defense spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

More than 20 nations pledged to provide weapons, equipment, fuel and medical aid to Kyiv after a NATO meeting of heads of state.

Roscosmos will suspend launches of Soyuz rockets from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana in response to European Union sanctions on Russia, the CEO of the Russian space corporation Dmitry Rogozin said Feb. 26.