U.S. Navy Rear Adm. William R. Merz, Commander, Submarine Group 7 (Comsubgru 7), met with representatives from the Indonesian submarine force in Surabaya, Indonesia, earlier this month to strengthen a working relationship between the two navies, U.S. Navy officials say.
India has approved a plan to jointly develop a short-range surface-to-air missile (SR-SAM) system with major European missile developer and manufacturer MBDA for deployment on navy warships.
Flight tests of the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton’s main sensor, a 360-deg.-scan surveillance radar, have begun on the unmanned aircraft at the U.S. Navy’s NAS Patuxent River test center in Maryland.
As it carries out its final orbits of the planet closest to the Sun, NASA’s Messenger Mercury mission leaves mounting intrigue over the Solar System’s early era, including the distribution of life’s precursors.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s call for sustainable warship building removes a risk that the government could switch to ordering all ships for the Royal Australian Navy from abroad, giving up on the trouble-plagued industry.
Helicopter Maritime Strike (HSM) Squadron 77 was selected to host the first overseas test of the Multi-Aircraft Nose and Tail Interface System (Mantis), a next-generation aircraft ground transport for shipboard use in the Western Pacific.
India’s second lunar exploration mission – Chandrayaan-2, to be launched during the next two to three years – will be completely indigenous, the country’s top scientist says.
Officials from the U.S., Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan concluded “a productive and substantive security meeting” earlier this month in Washington, “to enhance trilateral defense cooperation in light of the evolving security environment in the region,” the Pentagon says.
RAYTHEON has $2b contract from undisclosed international customer for Patriot Air & Missile Defense System. Contract awarded April 2. ORBITAL ATK delivered DIRECTV’s Sky Mexico-1 (SKYM-1) satellite to launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, for late May Ariane 5 launch. SELEX ES has multi-million-euro contract from COBHAM AVIATION SERVICES in Australia for Seaspray 5000E Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars for Cobham’s Challenger CL-604 maritime search-and-rescue missions.
The U.S. Air Force resumed flying T-6A Texan II training aircraft on April 15 after standing down the fleet five days earlier. Air Education and Training Command (AETC) had found indications of a malfunctioning engine oil line, and ordered the stand-down for an inspection of the fleet of 445 single-engine, two-seat primary trainers. The inspection focused on engine oil cooler supply and return lines. If chafing causes a failure in the supply and return lines, oil loss can damage the engine. All aircraft that have passed the inspection are returning to flight, according to AETC.
NASA has conducted the agency’s first flight of the X-56A testbed as part of a broader research effort to develop system and design technology for a future generation of aircraft with lighter, higher aspect ratio wings.
The head of U.S. Air Force Space Command envisions a future in which all of the Air Force’s satellites — ranging from communications, precision navigation and timing, weather and missile warning — are controlled by a common ground station.
The French government will establish two state-owned companies this year to purchase and leaseback Airbus A400M airlifters and multimission FREMM frigates to the nation’s armed forces under a plan aimed at filling a gap of more than €2 billion ($2.1 billion) in the nation’s 2015 defense budget.
With one satellite in house here, another on the way, and plans afoot for new spacecraft conceived on the path-finding model of its U.K. parent, Surrey Satellite Technology U.S. is taking root in fresh soil.
Ukraine’s aircraft manufacturer Antonov rolled out the first prototype of the An-178 transport aircraft on April 16. The first flight is scheduled for early May.
Brazilian Defense Minister Jacques Wagner did not rule out a possible sale of JAS 39E Gripen NG fighters to Argentina at the LAAD defense show here, but industry sources still confirm that such a deal is hypothetical at best.
Although investigators appear to be in broad agreement that wear in the bearings of the main engine turbopump is the “most probable” cause of the explosion that destroyed an Orbital ATK Antares launch vehicle on a crew resupply mission to the International Space Station last October, questions remain over what caused the wear in the first place.
NASA is spending too much of its tight budget on Earth science missions and not enough on space exploration, according to House Republican lawmakers who also faulted the U.S. space agency on its most ambitious new exploration program.
Just days after BAE Systems announced it would not attend the Paris air show, Italian defense and aerospace group Finmeccanica said it will greatly reduce its presence at the event as the company continues its restructuring and cost-reduction programs.
Fatigue cracks discovered in the airframes of several Swiss air force Northrop F-5 Tigers have forced the Swiss defense ministry to retire 10 aircraft.
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have completed the first inflight dry hookup of the X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UACS-D) and a tanker in a precursor to the first air-to-air refueling of an unmanned aircraft.
AEL Sistemas, the Brazil-based subsidiary of Israel’s Elbit, is showing prototypes of the cockpit hardware planned for Brazil’s Saab Gripen fighter at the LAAD defense and security show in Rio De Janeiro.
