Defense

While NASA strives through the Artemis Accords to promote peaceful efforts to explore the Moon, the Vienna-based Moon Village Association is assessing how to achieve a similar outcome through its Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Activity.

A program renaming is in store for the U.S. Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System to reflect its ever-expanding mission, but some of the fundamental questions have not changed.

GE AVIATION and TAE AEROSPACE teamed to provide F414 engine logistics support in Australia for US Navy; component repairs will be handled in Brisbane.

Over the past year, corroded floorboards on U.S. Navy MH-60S multimission helicopters have interfered with installing auxiliary fuel tanks needed for longer flights.

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has hinted that the UK’s future combat air system initiative, Tempest, could be one of the winners in the government’s Integrated Review of defense and foreign policy.

UK aerospace and trade association ADS is again warning of the dangers of a no-deal Brexit after it emerged that the British government plans to renege on elements of the Withdrawal Agreement it previously struck with the EU.

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

This week in Washington the U.S. Congress returns to work after its summer recess. Also this week the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems

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Next-gen three-stream combat engines signal the dawn of a new era in jet development.

The key is the right combination of cost, capability, autonomy and flexibility.

Leonardo has delivered the first of four counter-drone systems to the UK Royal Air Force (RAF) as the air arm seeks to protect its bases.

During a 20-sec. flight, India's Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle reached a maximum speed of Mach 6.0, validating critical functions of the scramjet propulsion speed at hypersonic speed.

Austria has begun negotiating with Indonesia on the possible sale of Vienna’s unwanted fleet of Eurofighter combat aircraft.

Combined-cycle testbed paves the way for Air Force’s longer-term hypersonic vehicle ambitions.

The mission adds China to an exclusive club of countries that have landed an orbital, reusable spacecraft.

The White House has issued a new space policy directive designed to improve the cybersecurity of space systems.

Pratt & Whitney is now set to challenge GE Aviation for the F-15EX engine contract after the U.S. Air Force committed to a competitive selection process for the first time on September 4.

The U.S. Air Force’s second demonstration of the Advanced Battle Management System was a four-day endeavor in partnership with U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Space Command that looked at new ways to counter attacks on the U.S.

Utah-based small drone manufacturer Teal Drones on Sept. 3 announced the commercial launch of its Golden Eagle quadcopter, which complies with a U.S. Defense Department prohibition against military use of Chinese-made unmanned aircraft systems.

Ask the Editors: NASA has continued its exploration blueprints by building support among both Democratic and Republican legislators.

The launch of the spacecraft on the 14th mission of the Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China adds to the country’s growing portfolio of space capabilities.

The most interesting unmanned aircraft system exhibits at Russia’s recent Army 2020 symposium were not the platforms themselves, but the new, dedicated weapons for them that were shown for the first time in large numbers.

The first Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-X prototype has entered the final assembly stage, the South Korean defense ministry said.

Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft for Kuwait and Qatar will incorporate an advanced active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar that is claimed to be the most advanced in the world. Jon Lake reports.