Defense

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Army and Navy officials plan to buy around 31 prototypes of an upgraded version of the Common Hypersonic Glide Body and incorporate a data link during the next two to three years, a new solicitation document says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

BOEING has NATO contract to lead industry team in conducting E-3 AWACS replacement study; retirements are planned in 2035.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Five bidders have been downselected as potential buyers for troubled Italian aerospace firm Piaggio Aerospace.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok
The South Korean Ministry of National Defense said tests verified the large solid-fuel engine, fairing separation, stage separation and upper-stage attitude control technology.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Turkey’s Roketsan has revealed the development of an indigenous cruise missile for use against land and sea targets.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
PAL Aerospace and Thales have signed a strategic agreement to co-develop new maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) mission systems, hoping to entice the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) for its MPA program.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Tony Osborne
Canada narrows fighter selection to F-35, begins negotiations for purchase of 88 aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau, Graham Warwick
Fiscal 2023 plans set another record for science as the agency places a premium on climate change research.
Space Symposium

By Michael Bruno
U.S. prime defense technology provider L3Harris Technologies and Silicon Valley venture capital firm Shield Capital announced a partnership March 29 to invest in emerging defense and commercial technology startups.
Supply Chain

By Mark Carreau
Ad Astra Rocket Co., Costa Rica SRL, and Mesoamerica, a Latin American asset manager, are forming a joint venture, ProNova Energy, to develop green hydrogen energy strategies for a global customer base and Latin American prospects
Space Symposium

By Michael Bruno
Aphelion Aerospace, a five-year-old startup targeting nanosatellite launches with its proposed environmentally friendly fueled rocket, is launching a crowdsourcing funding effort.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Struggling helicopter original equipment manufacturer MD Helicopters is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to allow the company to be restructured under new ownership.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim, Graham Warwick
U.S. unmanned air logistics company Volansi has unveiled its largest and longest-flying aircraft to date.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
NATO has awarded contracts to begin risk reduction and feasibility studies in support of the Alliance Future Surveillance and Control program that will replace the alliance’s fleet of Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning platforms in the 2030s.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

General Electric and the U.S. Air Force have begun ground tests of the XA100 adaptive cycle combat engine at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Soyuz MS-19 descended under parachute to a safe landing in remote Kazakhstan after departing the International Space Station early March 30 with two cosmonauts and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, whose stay set a new record of 355 days for the longest U.S. human spaceflight.
Space Symposium

By Guy Norris
As part of long-term plans to pave the way for the adoption of sustainable aviation fuel by the U.S. Air Force and other military services, Rolls-Royce will test the engine destined for the Boeing B-52H retrofit program with 100% low carbon fuel around midyear.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) wants to acquire its own flying testbed for rapid development and demonstrations of equipment.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The contract awards come as the UK retires the majority of its Hawk T1 fleet as part of cost-saving measures introduced in the government’s Integrated Review published last year.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has released its financial results for the 2021 fiscal year as was approved by the company's Board of Directors, with a total of $3.075 billion in sales, and a net profit of $133 million.
Aerospace

The third and fourth Eurofighter Typhoons for the Air Force of Kuwait landed yesterday in country in the framework of a wider order for a total of 28 aircraft that will be delivered to the Kuwait Air Force.
Defense

By Kim Minseok, Chen Chuanren
North Korea may have used an improved Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile in disguise for its claimed Hwasong-17 test on March 24.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Eyeing fast-growing demand for small satellite constellations from both defense and commercial customers, Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems is opening a new “high-throughput” small satellite production facility.
Space Symposium

By Garrett Reim
A cyberattack on Viasat’s KA-SAT network has the commercial communications satellite industry bracing for more.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz, Thierry Dubois
Trade sanctions against Russia leave European missions grounded.
Space Symposium