Defense

Issues are arising surrounding the Kenya Air Force (KAF) Bell AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters, writes Jon Lake.

Pilots will have to be trained to operate the ageing Tornado platform for at least another decade. But investment in training has not kept pace with the many changes made to the platform.

A company official says first flight for the new type is imminent.

Iran shot down a U.S. Navy Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator aircraft while the UAS was flying in international airspace, the DOD has confirmed.

The Royal Thai Air Force has become the first international customer to update its C-130H transport fleet with the Rolls-Royce T56 Series 3.5 engine upgrade.

The Pentagon’s rationale for low-yield nuke development; U.S. Air Force to move ahead with GBSD; U.S. invites Germany and Israel to fly King Stallion; and Israeli firms to merge.

A California startup developing an electric kinetic launch system has signed its first launch contract, with the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit.

Boeing Defense, Space and Security Chief Executive Leanne Caret said the “time was right” to move the company’s space launch HQ.

The National Academy of Sciences says the launch of an IR space observatory is urgently needed to track Near Earth Objects that could threaten Earth.

The Danish company announced it will cut as many as 30 employees by the end of June, with reductions targeted at administrative and manufacturing overhead.

The Himalayas are experiencing an accelerated loss of glacial ice, a Columbia University-led research effort has found.

“It’s about time for an upgrade,” says Raytheon in a recent blog post, adding that it “is bidding on the (FENS) contract later this year.”

A NASA IG report on IT security at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory raises a range of concerns over the Caltech-managed facility’s vulnerability to cyberattack.

In the midst of its operational testing, the Boeing KC-46A Pegasus is making its international debut at the Paris Air Show.

The USAF has reconfirmed plans to move forward with the final phase of the competition to deliver a replacement for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile.

Congress must negotiate a two-year budget deal before the 2020 presidential election heats up or the DOD and its defense industrial base will suffer, AIA CEO Eric Fanning says.

U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan will not move forward with his confirmation process after allegations of a 2010 domestic fight between Shanahan and his now ex-wife surfaced in a news report.

“DJI says that American data is safe, but its use of proprietary software networks means how would we know? Also, as a great power competitor, China has access to this rich flow of information,” an instructor with the National Defense University told a U.S. Senate committee June 18.

The aircraft would be equipped with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, or BACN, to increase communication coverage for deployed ground troops.

Sikorsky intends to offer the CH-53K in heavy-lift helicopter competitions in both nations.

“I think it will happen—no question about it. It will happen,” IAI Chairman Harel Locker said in an exclusive interview.

U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan will not move forward with his confirmation process after allegations of a 2010 domestic incident surfaced in a news report.

One of the first casualties of the merger of the communications and sensing companies will be L3’s headquarters in New York City, which will be consolidated with Harris’ existing facility in Melbourne, Florida.

A new U.S. airborne mine countermeasures capability entered the Baltic Sea for the first time during an annual NATO military exercise led by U.S. Naval Forces Europe.

France’s Safran and Germany’s Diehl have agreed to work together to develop a small, lightweight tactical air-to-ground weapon: the Hussar.