Defense

The company that invented the unmanned hunter-killer mission unveils a concept for the legendary MQ-9’s replacement.

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.

News in brief

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

Greece is set to become the first European export customer for the Dassault Rafale, announcing plans to order 18 aircraft as part of a modernization of its armed forces.

IDEX and NAVDEX will be held from 21 – 25 February 2021 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, with the International Defence Conference being held on 20 February at the ADNOC Business Centre.

The Klimov Co., a subsidiary of Russia’s United Engine Corp., plans to finish development of a new RD-93MA turbofan for the Sino-Pakistani JF-17 single-engine fighter next year.

Boeing’s MQ-25 carrier-based unmanned refueling test asset is out of commission because of “water intrusion,” according to a U.S. Navy official.

The Netherlands has begun to hunt for a new medium-range air defense system to replace its Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System II.

The U.S. Air Force has revealed that its United Arab Emirates counterparts have used their Saab GlobalEye airborne early warning platform in a major exercise.

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Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

Russia’s United Engine Corp. has launched development of its first hybrid-electric powerplant. St. Petersburg-based subsidiary Klimov, which

As industry ranks are decimated, OEMs and top-tier companies already are worried about losing too many talented workers.

Saab’s new air-launched decoy missile leans heavily on Finnish telecommunications expertise.

In Northrop Grumman vision, next hunter-killer aircraft could operate very differently from the MQ-9, as USAF ponders future operations.

Aerospace companies are mapping strategies to meet both employee and business needs in an uncertain future.

The company is offering a family of UAS that includes advanced and inexpensive systems.

Mars exploration advocates tackle racism and diversity.

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

U.S. Army’s new MQ-1 payload; Northrop wins $13 billion for next ICBM; MH-60 floorboard fix; and U.S. Marines’ UK carrier exercise.

NASA on Sept. 10 released a solicitation to buy 50-500 grams of lunar regolith, at a price of $15,000-25,000, a mission not for science but to set the legal precedent for owning resources extracted from the Moon and other bodies in the Solar System.

With the commercial aviation manufacturers and suppliers still reeling from COVID-19, Eric Fanning, president of the Aerospace Industries Association

A non-nuclear explosive prototype has rolled off a nuclear weapon assembly line in Texas to keep planned deliveries of the B61-12 on track for fiscal 2022.