Defense

Russia’s JSC Rosoboronexport, a subsidiary of the state corporation Rostec, has begun marketing new-generation combat aircraft, according to Alexander Mikheev, director general.
Defense

By Angus Batey
A British startup has unveiled a one-fifth scale model of an innovative lunar lander in partnership with a Ukrainian manufacturer, and plans to test another vehicle in the UAE.
Defense

By Angus Batey
Raytheon says its Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) will be cleared to fly on the F-35A within days.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Russian arms buyers hang in limbo as fallout from Turkey’s defiant S-400 delivery remains unclear.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy has awarded contracts to the winners of four prize challenges for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force expeditionary unmanned aircraft system (MUX) for four individual mission payloads.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Insitu has developed a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system with a satellite communications antenna for beyond-line-of-sight operations, the Boeing subsidiary says.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace has rolled out the first locally-assembled T-70 Black Hawk helicopter to be built under the Turkish Utility Helicopter Program (TUHP).
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The program’s goal is to renew France’s capability in electromagnetic signal intelligence, notably the interception of voice radio communications and radar waves.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The NASA Orion capsule assigned to the first joint test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, reached Ohio by air transport from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 24.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The next trend in sats is multiuse constellations, typically combining telecoms and Earth observation, says Guy Perez, sat manufacturer OHB chief tech officer and head of telecoms sats.
Program Management

By Bradley Perrett
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has contracted MBDA to integrate the Meteor long-range air-to-air missile on the KF-X indigenous fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Designed to help a geostationary satellite reach its final orbit or deliver constellation spacecraft into more orbital planes, among other potential uses.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Canada’s Stratodynamics Aviation, which in September set a record by releasing an unmanned glider from a stratospheric balloon at 11,434 ft., is to conduct research flights for NASA under a contract awarded to the University of Kentucky.
Defense

By Bill Carey
House lawmakers are calling on the FAA to preserve airspace safety and efficiency as it develops a regulation to simplify launch and re-entry requirements for commercial space operators.
Program Management

By Lee Hudson
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper asked for Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s resignation Nov. 24 due to what the top U.S. defense official said was a loss of confidence.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The Government Accountability (GAO) office defended the U.S. Air Force’s National Security Space Launch procurement in three areas outlined in a protest filed by Blue Origin.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
A competition has opened between L3Harris and Northrop Grumman to upgrade the self-protection jamming systems on hundreds of U.S. Air Force F-16s.
Program Management

By Lee Hudson
Omega Air took delivery of the first of two former Royal Netherlands Air Force KDC-10 aircraft that they could potentially use to provide a tanking service to the U.S. Air Force.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Eyeing potential opportunities for F-35 sales in Spain, Portugal and elsewhere, Lockheed Martin aims to eventually produce 4,000 of the fifth-generation fighters, a company official said Nov. 21.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Two spacewalking astronauts teamed for the second of four planned spacewalks outside the ISS on Nov. 22 to advance an upgrade of the thermal control system on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A Pakistani company has entered the high-altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) business with a platform it believes can sell at one-tenth the cost of systems like Airbus’ Zephyr.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. State Department has approved a long-awaited Foreign Military Sale of Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to Morocco.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Defense against maneuvering hypersonic missiles will probably require interception while weapons are still climbing, former U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command chief Gen. Herbert Carlisle said.
Program Management

By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
Taurus is promoting the KEPD 350 cruise missile to Japan for the Boeing F-15, despite a government statement in 2018 that it would acquire the Lockheed Martin AGM-158 Jassm for the fighter.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
MBDA sees a possibility of selling Meteor long-range air-to-air missiles to Japan despite the defense ministry’s current acquisition of Raytheon AIM-120C-7 Amraams.
Defense