Defense

The U.S. Marine Corps has entered the last phase of a fleet transition for the Lockheed Martin KC-130T, with the first KC-130J delivered to the last

The demonstration showed the potential targeting range of the 15-year-old weapon system, with one missile fired at a target 90 km (60 mi.) away and the second at a target 400 km away.

The Air Force did not release the number of aircraft involved in the deployment, but an official photo showed four F-35As moving down a taxiway after landing at Al Dhafra.

The program will modernize the fleet and allow it to undertake limited close air support missions and intercept low-speed air targets in the air policing mission.

“It’s truly a critical moment in the development of the space economy and a new era of private human spaceflight,” NASDAQ’s president and CEO said just before the astronauts rang the bell in the station’s U.S. segment.

TUSAS has been flight testing a new wing for the Anka UAV equipped with internal fuel tanks that can boost its endurance.

U.S. defense prime contractors and aerospace OEMs will sell their 20-year-old industry consultancy Exostar to private equity buyer Thoma Bravo

Leonardo says it has completed flight testing for the latest phase enhancement upgrade for the Eurofighter Typhoon, paving the way for the delivery of active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar-equipped aircraft to Kuwait.

The no-fly zone over Libya has already claimed victims, writes Jon Lake.

The U.S. Marine Corps has entered the last phase of a fleet transition for the Lockheed Martin KC-130T, with the first KC-130J delivered to the last

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

Technology is rapidly shaping new generations of Western air-to-air missiles, as the need to outrange adversary weapons grows.

New experiments show the concept works, but is the "Arsenal Plane" the answer to the Air Force's capacity problem?

When discussing the U.S. Air Force's next C2 architecture, the temptation is to focus on the E-3 AWACS and E-8C J-Stars. Less attention is paid to the ground-based, and in many ways more powerful, corollaries of both aircraft.

“Things worked exactly the way we expected them to work," Demo-2 astronaut Doug Hurley said. " It’s a pretty awe-inspiring trip so far, pretty humbling,”

Cairo reportedly is looking to purchase 24 Eurofighters, 24 M-346 jet trainers, a satellite produced by Leonardo, and up to six FREMM frigates and offshore patrol vessels.

The counter-UAS system must allow a single operator to intercept drones and employ countermeasures.

Germany is looking to arm its future fleet of EuroDrone unmanned aircraft systems with MBDA Brimstone air-to-ground missiles and Enhanced Paveway

GE AVIATION has $394m contract to provide J85 engine supplies for T-38s operated by USAF and Navy; T-38 is expected to remain operational until 2040.

BAE says the successful firings at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona show the weapon can allow mounted and dismounted units to engage soft and lightly armored targets.

“I’m very confident that we’ll continue to fund NASA and fund NASA aggressively,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said shortly after SpaceX's Demo-2 mission successfully docked with the International Space Station.

Beta Technologies and Joby Aviation are the first developers of urban air mobility vehicles to progress to the third stage of the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program.

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

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

SpaceX's first Dragon capsule to carry astronauts will remain docked for up to four months at the space station.