Defense

This week’s planned launch of India’s Microsat-R remote sensing satellite will feature a unique experiment involving the PSLV's fourth stage.

Germany’s Rheinmetall and Britain’s BAE Systems have agreed to create a joint venture to support a series of upcoming British combat vehicle programs.

A Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashed Jan. 22 at the Olenegrosk military airfield in the Murmansk region of northern Russia.

ArianeGroup has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for a one-year feasibility study on exploiting lunar natural resources by 2025.

As part of preparations for a full-scale intercept test with the Arrow-3 ballistic missile defense system to be performed in Alaska, Israel and the U.S. have tested the missile over the Mediterranean.

A decision by embattled aerospace and defense supplier Arconic to not sell itself means a longer road to recovery for shareholders, analysts said.

Prior-year restructuring and the continuing upswing of aerospace and defense end-markets boosted Allegheny Technologies in 2018.

Ivory Coast has ordered a single Airbus C295 twin-turboprop airlifter for its air force, the airframer announced Jan. 21.

The purchases of Israel Military Industries by Elbit Systems and Aeronautics by Rafael will allow these firms to address the needs of the Israeli Air Force for UAS.

Cambridge Pixel, a developer of radar display, tracking and recording sub-systems, is supplying its IFF (identification friend or foe) secondary radar processing and plot extraction technology to Tellumat, as part of an upgrade of Secondary Surveillance Radars (SSR) for the South African Air Force (SAAF), at six airfield sites across the country.

The Ministry of Defence of Ivory Coast has signed a firm order for one C295 medium transport aircraft.

A few details and the probable choice of engines suggest the aircraft will be conceptually like the retired U.S. F-111, but perhaps a lot bigger.

X-59A cockpit; saltwater biofuel; flow-control wing; F-16s fly biofuel.

Air Force Undersecretary Matt Donovan told reporters Jan. 18 that the experimentation campaign will continue and details will be revealed in the fiscal 2020 budget request.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 has resumed science observations.

A collaborative assessment concludes that samples of two Martian moons could be gathered robotically and returned to Earth without a biohazard threat.

Singapore has announced it will acquire a small number of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to prepare for the eventual retirement of its F-16 fleet.

The few known details and the likely choice of engines suggest China’s new tactical bomber will be conceptually like the retired U.S. F-111.

Sounding rocket launches for NASA’s Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp have been continuing despite the ongoing partial U.S. government shutdown.

The White House has resubmitted four nominations to fill vacancies on the board of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.

MDA and U.S. Northern Command will present a plan to accelerate efforts enhancing missile defense tracking and discrimination sensors, including addressing advanced missile threats.

The U.S. Air Force has started searching for ideas to improve the HGU-55/P helmet worn by F-15, F-16 and F-22 fighter pilots.

Switzerland has boosted the readiness of its air defense system to provide air policing of its airspace for 16 hr. a day, 365 days a year.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) has said it will perform regular F-16 training flights in 2019 with the aircraft using biokerosene fuel.

Startup Relativity Space, which is developing a 3D-printed small satellite launcher, plans to fly from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 16.