The Kongsberg-developed Joint Strike Missile (JSM), designed for internal carriage in Lockheed Martin’s F-35, has completed captive carriage testing in the U.S. and will be air dropped for the first time in October from an F-16.
An American pilot said a Chinese aircraft intercepted his U.S. intelligence-gathering RC-135 in an “unsafe” manner earlier this month, the Pentagon says, in a scenario reminiscent of previous recent incidents of aerial harassment.
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 5 Milwaukee successfully concluded its acceptance trial earlier this month after completing a series of in-port and underway demonstrations for the U.S. Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey (Insurv), service officials say.
The Navy has identified a “slight deterioration in the required progress” on the CVN 78 shipboard test program,” Cmdr. Thurraya Kent says. “As a result, the sea trial schedule will be delayed about six to eight weeks.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) will begin using new solid rocket boosters developed by Orbital ATK as early as 2018, in a shift away from Aerojet Rocketdyne as a booster-supplier for its Atlas V and planned Vulcan launch vehicles.
The global space economy generated $330 billion in 2014, a 9% surge over the previous year and the biggest leap since 2011, according to the U.S. Space Foundation’s The Space Report.
Leaked details of a Norwegian defense planning document intended to guide government spending in 2016 appear to support continued procurement of the planned full complement of Lockheed Martin F-35s,
After a delay of more than three years, India has approved the purchase of 22 AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters and 15 Chinook CH-47F heavy-lift helicopters from the U.S. for the country’s air force.
In a U.S. Navy field test, Northrop Grumman’s AQS-24B mine-hunting system successfully demonstrated the ability to perform synthetic aperture sonar processing at 18 kt. in real time, the company says.
The U.S. Navy successfully fired a Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) from a SeaRAM launcher for the first time on an Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship.
Japan’s passage of legislation that will allow the country to engage in collective self-defense and aid allies was lauded by the leadership of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees Sept. 18.
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The European Space Agency has delayed the launch of the first leg of the €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) ExoMars campaign from January to March to address a technical issue on the entry, descent and landing (EDL) demonstrator.
The program has run ahead of schedule and is about 10% under budget, says Rear Adm. Tony Dalton, the manager of the Australian defense department’s helicopter acquisitions.
Lockheed Martin and European missile manufacturer MBDA are hoping that Germany’s selection of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) will spur international interest.
Australia will decide next decade whether to replace or modernize its 22 Airbus Tiger attack helicopters, which are only now moving toward full operational status 14 years after they were ordered.
