Defense

SpaceX is in talks with countries to give them sovereign satellite communications capabilities, says Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president.

New industry partnerships are moving the Global Combat Aircraft Program closer to its multibillion-dollar design and development contract.

Brazil and Sweden have formally launched discussions on purchasing an increased number of Saab Gripen combat for the Brazilian Air Force.

A new House proposal to avert a government shutdown includes a provision to force the Pentagon to keep the Boeing E-7A Wedgetail program moving at pace.

The Trump administration on Sept. 15 announced it would significantly loosen restrictions on international sales of uncrewed aerial systems.

Raytheon is internally testing the addition of an air-breathing propulsion system to its air- and ground-launched GBU-53/B StormBreaker.

The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon recently set a new record for longest AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile shot by a fifth-generation fighter.

The U.S. State Department has green-lighted Peru to acquire the Block 70 model Lockheed Martin F-16.

Copenhagen is planning to buy a fleet of Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has revealed.

Portuguese uncrewed air system developer Tekever is to build its air vehicles in Swindon, England, as part of its $545 million Overmatch investment strategy.

Germany is drafting a new military space architecture that will help shape the country's development plans, says the head of the German Space Command.

The defense market will become the biggest growth driver for the space-based remote sensing industry, Novaspace analysts estimate.

A new layer of high-altitude platforms carrying optical tracking sensors could be added to the U.S. missile defense architecture in the future.

Taiwanese flight academy Apex Aviation is teaming up with Teledyne and Italy’s Tecnam on a customized maritime reconnaissance aircraft for Taiwan.

The U.S. Air Force has begun conversion of the Qatari-gifted Boeing 747-8 to become a new presidential airlift aircraft.

The Swedish developers of a low-cost anti-drone effector are working on a longer-range loitering munition capable of engaging targets beyond line of sight.

Digital and additive manufacturing newcomer Divergent Technologies has closed a $290 million venture capital round, the company announced Sept. 15.

UK engineers have been exploring the use of the Link 16 datalink as an initial means of commanding autonomous collaborative platforms.

Startup Certo Aerospace, developing an uncrewed co-axial rotorcraft, has won a UK Defense Ministry contract to demonstrate logistics and medevac capabilities.

BAE Systems is hoping to accelerate the integration of the European Common Radar System Mk. 2 into the UK’s Eurofighter Typhoons.

On the cover of this Paris Preview edition dated May 23, 2005, is a pair of Blk. 30 F-16s with the Air Force Air National Guard Test Center showing their Lockheed Martin Sniper XR pods, which were operating in Iraq and Afghanistan at the time on F-16s and F-15Es.

Days after Russian drone incursions into Poland and Romania, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to NATO countries to invest in his country’s low-cost interceptors.

Singapore is exploring additional airborne capabilities to complement its future fleet of Boeing P-8A Poseidons, which are scheduled to enter service in the early 2030s.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 in the St. Louis area voted Sept. 12 not to accept the latest offer from Boeing.

NATO will bolster the defense of Poland after violations of that country’s airspace by Russian uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) earlier this week.