Defense

BOEING has 10-year PBL contract from Republic of Singapore Air Force to support its F-15SGs.

EMBRAER delivered its fourth C-390 Millennium to BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE, which has ordered 28.

LOCKHEED MARTIN agreed to acquire AEROJET ROCKETDYNE, CA (rocket engine manufacturer) in deal valued at $4.4b.

Nanoracks’ commercial airlock, which was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this month aboard the first launch of SpaceX’s upgraded cargo version of the Dragon capsule, has been successfully removed from the freighter’s unpressurized trunk and berthed to the port side of the orbital outpost’s U.S. segment Tranquility module.

The agreement on the all-cash transaction includes a $5 per share, pre-closing special dividends to Aerojet’s shareholders, reducing the post-dividend value of the deal to $4.6 billion.

The missile forms a critical element of the Pentagon’s fast-track plan to develop a range of high-speed stand-off strike and cruise weapons to counter new Chinese and Russian hypersonic capabilities.

SpaceX’s second mission for the NRO lifted off at 9 a.m. EST Dec. 19 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.

The launch of 36 OneWeb satellites follows the company's emergence from bankruptcy.

The U.S. Navy awarded L3Harris a $496 million contract to launch the four-year engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the NGJ-LB program.

Epirus, a startup building high-power microwave (HPM) applications for UAV deployment, closed a $70 million funding round that included an investment by L3Harris Technologies.

The project could provide yet another opportunity for more retail-level investors to get in on the growing space economy.

A small team at Hanscom AFB developed a new way to transmit video from the Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) to a ground-based terminal.

The “Space Prime” office would provide military certification for satellite payload replenishment, on-orbit refueling and other new-space advances.

South Korea's defense acquisition agency may opt for a private prime contractor and promote the effort as an international joint development project.

This webinar took place December 18, 2020 and was sponsored by Raytheon Intelligence & Space. The Pentagon’s largest acquisition system, the F-35, is

The UK’s new fleet of E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft are to be based in Scotland rather than England.

Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA) have confirmed the root cause of the Vega launcher failure on Nov. 16 lay in the assembly process, as opposed to being a design flaw.

How regional defense plans are changing in the Middle East as Israel and Arab states work to isolate Iran.

Industrial and regional changes open vast new opportunities for Israel’s defense sector.

Forecasts, snapshots and aircraft to watch.

Sanctions against Turkey’s SSB could taint the country’s future defense exports and stimulate it toward greater self-sufficiency.

A year ago, the U.S. military created its first new service since 1947. The Space Force is coming into its own, but fast enough?

North filed pilot reports on more than 120 aircraft and was a protector of his staff and the publication.

His path defined an era of singular achievement driven by skill, courage and a bit of luck.

U.S. OKs G550 sale to Italy; Saudi Arabia’s final F-15SA deliveries; Russia launches anti-satellite test; and U.S. fighters swap data.