Defense

Saurabh Joshi
Though tensions with Pakistan remain high, New Delhi is struggling to spend more to modernize.
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By Irene Klotz
Virgin Galactic conducts sole U.S. human spaceflight in 2019.
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By Steve Trimble
Air-launched, anti-missile interceptors and defensive lasers are set to take the next step in development.
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By Irene Klotz
Amazon plans to open an R&D and prototype manufacturing center in Redmond, Washington, to oversee development of its Kuiper sat broadband program.
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By Steve Trimble
Russia’s new bomber will enter service in 2027, a senior Ministry of Defense official said.
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By Lee Hudson
Fielding counter-small unmanned aircraft systems is a priority for the Pentagon in 2020.
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By Steve Trimble
The DOD has launched a new effort to streamline the process for getting information about hostile radar emitters into the threat libraries of combat platforms.
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By Craig Caffrey
Saudi Arabia has announced plans to reduce defense spending by 8% in 2020.
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By Lee Hudson
The U.S. government and Sikorsky have solidified a production fix for the CH-53K King Stallion exhaust gas reingestion problem.
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By Bradley Perrett
More highly integrated composite structure is a possible technology for a future Chinese fighter.
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By Michael Bruno
Private equity-backed Shimtech Industries has purchased Fastener Technology Corp.
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By Michael Bruno
Airbus is beginning talks with workforce representatives to address cost structure and boost the division’s long-term competitiveness.
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By Steve Trimble
Plans to buy new fighters, helicopters, tankers and tiltrotors are on hold until a new government can be formed.
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By Michael Bruno
Rocket Lab looks for up to a dozen payload launches a year, while the spaceport is in talks to bring in more launch providers.
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By Tony Osborne
Turkey’s defense ties with Russia are causing problems with NATO and the U.S., while local weapons development continues.
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By Tony Osborne
Continuing Middle East instability prompts capability-strengthening and local defense industry growth, especially in the Gulf states.
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By Steve Trimble
A year of change is in store for the military organizations tasked with intercepting missiles launched from another continent. In the U.S., the $160
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By Steve Trimble
The Pentagon’s vast hypersonic investment strategy will finally enter the flight-test stage in 2020.
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Tony Osborne
Even flagging helicopter products are finding customers in the midst of defense spending hikes.
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AIDC of China and LOCKHEED MARTIN signed agreement Dec. 17 to establish F-16 maintenance hub in Taiwan, China News Agency says.
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By Michael Bruno
The deal gives Leidos an instant foothold in Huntsville, increasingly the epicenter of U.S. missile and military space work
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By Tony Osborne
NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance Force is gearing up for the first flights from its Italian base.
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By Guy Norris
Lockheed Martin has extended its long-running hypersonic links with Aerojet Rocketdyne.
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By Steve Trimble
Congressional appropriators approved a $310 million budget in fiscal 2020 to jump-start a competitive development process for a Next Generation Interceptor.
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By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin formally opened a new assembly line for F-16 Block 70 aircraft in Greenville, South Carolina, on Dec. 17.
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