Defense

Britain’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory has issued tenders for a study into the creation of a synthetic aperture radar small sat constellation.

The Philippines will order 16 Sikorsky S-70 Black Hawk helicopters within months, Defense Secretary Deflin Lorenzana said.

Japanese startup Euglena has completed construction of the country’s first demonstration plant for producing renewable jet and diesel fuel.

Kuwait has finally confirmed its long-awaited order for the Boeing Super Hornet, the US Department of Defense has announced. Jon Lake reports.

Why the merger with Harris Corp. was the inevitable capstone to a boom-bust story.

The U.S. Air Force has released a draft solicitation for the second phase of a next-generation rocket competition to deliver National Security Space payloads.

The Pentagon will not confirm the fiscal 2020 top line budget numbers until Feb. 4.

Voyager 2 has joined its Voyager 1 twin in interstellar space, scientists announced Dec. 10 at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington.

India’s indigenous Light Utility Helicopter reached an altitude of 6 km in recent testing, a critical requirement for the certification of the 3-ton aircraft.

China’s Chang’e 4 lunar probe has conducted a second course correction following its launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.

A German think tank has suggested Berlin could go down the route of a split buy of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and Eurofighters.

The British Royal Air Force (RAF) has declared MBDA’s Meteor ramjet-powered beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile operational on the Eurofighter Typhoon.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) will get a dedicated advanced military communications satellite with the upcoming launch of GSAT-7A.

Argentina’s state-owned airframer, Fábrica Argentina de Aviones, is preparing to deliver three IA-63 Pampa III light jet trainers to the country’s air force.

Active flow-control flaps; Tilt/fold VTOL; Zephyr HPAS base; Wing delivers in Helsinki; Galicia’s UAS ambitions.

U.S. Air Force Col. Robert Bongiovi discusses the Air Force’s vision for future launch services, the Delta IV and the National Security Space Launch program.

U.S. Air Force Col. Robert Bongiovi became the launch systems services enterprise director one year ago, after serving as the office’s acquisition chief.

Embraer and the Brazilian federal government plan to challenge a Brazilian court order that stops Embraer and Boeing from finalizing their proposed commercial-aircraft joint venture (JV) before the country’s new administration is in power.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Lt. Gen. Rozzano Briguez as the new chief of the air force, replacing Lt. Gen. Galileo Gerard Kintanar.

Saab said it has offered its Erieye airborne early warning (AEW) system to the Philippines and Indonesia.

The French Air Force is contributing to Franco-German studies on the FCAS and is also exerting pressure for greater availability of its Airbus A400M transports.

Bearings and seals provider SKF will close its 185-employee bearings manufacturing site in Stonehouse, UK, as part of a consolidation in Europe.

Why President Trump’s view that current defense spending levels are “crazy” may not be off the mark.

The move marks the next battle in the long-running tanker aircraft competition, as three of the biggest aerospace companies fight for a key market.

USAF Secretary Heather Wilson and Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein have directed a 90-day review to inform the service’s space budget plans for fiscal 2021.