Defense

European defense budgets are increasing following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Since Russia’s initial incursion into Ukraine in 2014, Scandinavian

Eighteen days after OneWeb decided to suspend launches of its broadband satellites from Russia in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the company has signed with SpaceX.

Russia’s claim that it fired a Khinzal hypersonic missile at a munitions store in Ukraine within the past few days has left the Pentagon perplexed.

A Sierra Nevada/Volansi team has been selected to compete for Increment 2 of the U.S. Army’s program to replace a fleet of Textron RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aircraft systems.

The U.S. Marine Corps has flown more than 75 hr. in a modified MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor to evaluate Bell Boeing’s nacelle upgrades, as two of the Air Force’s variants have completed changes.

Engineers at the Imperial College of London have created a virtual wind tunnel called PyFR, capable of simulating the atmospheric conditions on Mars for the testing of rotorcraft blade designs.

E-Space, a startup founded by space communications entrepreneur Greg Wyler, has signed a contract with Rocket Lab to launch three demonstration satellites aboard an Electron rocket in the second quarter of 2022.

AUSTRALIA named Boeing Australia-produced unmanned aircraft the MQ-28A Ghost Bat.

The electronic warfare (EW) suites for the enduring U.S. Air Force fighter fleet are now set — and there are some surprises.

Disruption of commercial and scientific cooperation with Western countries because of the conflict in Ukraine is likely to cause Russia’s space-launch campaign to be reduced by one-third this year.

Ursa Space, a satellite-based synthetic-aperture-radar services startup, said March 21 it raised $16 million in Series C venture capital.

The UK Government will attend Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (DIMDEX) this week with a delegation from the Department for International Trade, the UK MoD and Industry.

As Morocco places an emphasis on unmanned systems, Egypt’s Air Force is also embracing new weapons capabilities.

BAE Systems has been operating in Saudi Arabia for more than half a century and worked side-by-side with the Kingdom's government introducing many of the practices that are now embedded within Vision 2030.

The Australian government and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) have designated the Boeing Airpower Teaming System, or Loyal Wingman, as the MQ-28A Ghost Bat.

The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of a Lockheed Martin Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Radar and associated command and control systems to the UK.

Russian forces claim to have used the Kinzhal hypersonic missile operationally for the first time.

The reignited Airbus-Dassault dispute delays French-German-Spanish future combat air system project.

Saudi Arabia suffered a series of attacks from missiles and drones allegedly fired by Yemeni Houthi missiles.

After releasing its satellite computer vision and guidance software in January, Scout has raised an undisclosed bridge round of financing led by venture capital firm Decisive Point.

The debris of a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey that crashed was spotted late March 18 by a Norwegian rescue team south of the northern city of Bodo.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-21 successfully launched and docked to the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment on March 18, delivering cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov.

The U.S. Air Force needs to update its operating locations around the globe to be able to surge and operate combat aircraft under duress. So the service is starting an in-depth review of how this will happen, and it might not be easy. Or cheap.

The first NASA-backed private astronaut mission to the International Space Station has been retargeted for launch no earlier than April 3 due to additional time needed for transportation provider SpaceX to prepare the Crew Dragon spacecraft chartered by Axiom Space.

China’s Ministry of Transport’s Rescue and Salvage Bureau has acquired six Leonardo AW189 helicopters to enhance its maritime search-and-rescue operations.