Defense

A diverse mix of hypersonic and subsonic cruise missiles is now in development.

The U.S. is freezing the sales of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia as part of a broader Biden administration policy shift of not supporting the nation’s war in Yemen.

General Atomics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman won contracts to pursue preliminary design work for DARPA’s LongShot program to develop an air-launched UAV that can employ multiple air-to-air weapons, DARPA announced Feb. 8.

The first of a trio of new spacecraft headed to Mars is nearing a do-or-die 27-min. engine burn on Feb. 9 to trim speed so it can be swept into orbit around the red planet.

Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) has announced that he will not seek a seventh term in 2022.

An independent report has concluded that neither Ukrainian nor Russian aviation regulators were aware of any potential threats to civil airspace in the lead up to the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

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The U.S. Army has conducted an operational assessment with the Rafael Fire Weaver, also known as Smart Trigger, which the Israel Defense Forces fielded with combined arms units up to the battalion level to reduce sensor-to-shooter time.

Two northern hemisphere regions on Mars appear to offer the best prospects for hosting generous deposits of subsurface ice that could serve as a key resource for future human exploration of the red planet, findings from multiple planetary science missions show.

French defense materiel agency DGA has ordered six light aircraft from domestic manufacturers for training and flight testing.

Lockheed Martin is to use a launcher provided by ABL Space Systems for its planned Pathfinder launch from the UK.

Advanced Air Refueling program seeks a sharp break from decades-old approach to inflight refueling.

The B-21 Training Systems Innovation Challenge launched on February 1 by the Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) and Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) includes two phases.

NATO has chosen Toulouse as the site for its space center of excellence, a materialization of the organization’s fledgling space policy.

Ask the Editors: Warfare has changed over the decades, so what worked in previous conflicts may no longer be the way to go.

The top officers in the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps recently reinvigorated debate surrounding military readiness and recommended adding artificial intelligence (AI) tools to the mix of existing metrics.

RUAG MRO INTL, Germany has contract to modernize two Dornier 228s for Royal Thai Navy, which has seven in fleet.

OHB System has filed a lawsuit with the Court of Justice of the European Union against the European Commission’s decision to exclude the company from a program creating the second generation of Galileo navigation satellites.

The changes under review within the U.S. Marine Corps are so extensive that replacing the Bell Boeing MV-22 with a new aircraft is possible.

Since the MQ-9 caught on as a way for the U.S. to track insurgents during its so-called war on terrorism, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles has revolutionized warfare, but will its future hold?

Company debuts dedicated ride-share service, undercutting pricing again.

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

A “special notice” published on Feb. 2 by the Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions Project Office defines a plan to stage of shoot-off of candidate designs in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022.

Firefly Aerospace has won a $93.3 million NASA task order to provide 10 science and technology payloads in 2023 to help the space agency prepare for human missions to the Moon.

The corporate team demonstrated a prototype form of a sonobuoy dispenser last October to show-off a potential anti-submarine warfare role for the U.S. Navy’s long-endurance, unmanned helicopter.