Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is close to an agreement with Boeing on the E-7A Wedgetail program, after cost disagreements derailed the program for months.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Brian Everstine
Following multiple failed attempts, the agency says airborne laser technology has evolved enough to deserve another shot.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
Hanwha will integrate its new AESA radar, featuring the "tile" type transmitter/receive (T/R) block design, on to the KUS-LW.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Robert Wall
The targeting pod failed within two months of use, Danish auditors said, and in some cases did not pass its first test.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
The Taiwan Air Force plans to upgrade the avionics on its Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules aircraft.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Diehl's Feanix—Future Effector–Adaptable, Networked, Intelligent, eXpendable—is an under-300-kg (660-lb.)-class, turbojet-powered, clean-sheet air system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The newly announced plan is part of a wider effort to expand production and repair capacity for the F-35’s acrylic transparencies.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Photos from Bombardier Defense and Lufthansa Technik Defense show the modified Global 6000 with large cheek and under-fuselage fairings.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Matthew Fulco
In a new report, Crunchbase says that defense startups raised just $228 million through mid-May, a 62% decline.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Sweden will transfer a pair of airborne early warning aircraft to Ukraine in a bid to bolster the country’s air defense and support its future F-16s.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The sensor upgrade will be installed on the CH-149s as part of the C$1 billion ($734 million) Cormorant Mid-Life Update program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Robert Wall
The Dutch Defense Ministry has given the green light to upgrade electronic warfare suites on its AH-64, CH-47 and NH90 helicopters, the government says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Northrop Grumman has signed an agreement with NVIDIA to use the company’s AI software to speed up development of the defense prime’s “most advanced systems.”
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The prototypes will seek new devices for Inertial sensing and magnetic sensing, plus advances in photonic systems and laser components used by quantum devices.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Project Ealing is able to detect, track and engage UAS threats up to 1 km (half a mile) away, and work is ongoing to boost its range, the UK MOD says.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Matthew Fulco
Savoie discusses the company’s evolving business strategy amid a tense geopolitical environment.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The uncrewed derivative of the Stemme S12 motor glider is deployed as part of a $30 million demonstration of an affordable ultra-long aircraft.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
AeroVironment plans to test a long-endurance flight of its Horus high-altitude pseudo satellite, as it pitches its modular payload for military missions.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Matthew Fulco
The main surprise in the defense microelectronics manufacturer Mercury Systems' third-quarter fiscal 2024 earnings report was a net loss of $44.6 million.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The acquisition of Aerovel and the company’s Flexrotor UAS moves the U.S. subsidiary of the European aerospace giant into a hotly competitive market segment.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Matthew Fulco
Data analytics firm Palantir posted a record net Q1 profit of $106 million and revenue of $634.3 million, exceeding Wall Street’s expectations.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
Small, high-altitude balloons, business jets and loitering UAVs all feed into new targeting plans.
Army Aviation Association of America

By Graham Warwick
Merlin and MIT Lincoln Laboratory are integrating the next-generation collision-avoidance system for uncrewed aircraft into the Merlin Pilot flight system.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

The Air Force will receive a classified directed energy system last among the three armed services participating in the High Energy Laser Scaling Initiative.

Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
Boeing has been awarded a $139.5 million contract to enhance the Royal Australian Air Force P-8A Poseidon with the Increment 3 Blk. 2 upgrade.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare