An appeal to NATO nations to supply intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) along NATO’s eastern flank has so far fallen on deaf ears, according to the deputy commander of the alliance’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet.
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has chosen the Airbus H155 as the basis for LCH-LAH civil and military helicopter, adding South Korean production of more than 200 units to a program that the European manufacturer is replacing.
Two Korea Aerospace Industries KT-1 trainer aircraft of the Indonesian air force crashed after colliding during practice for the Malaysian air show on March 15.
U.S. Navy and Republic of Korea (ROK) navy ships concluded the maritime portion earlier this month of Foal Eagle, which is meant to help their naval forces work better together.
Built for Paris-based Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) of Bermuda, the electric propulsion spacecraft need eight months to reach their final orbit, creating a lag between their March 1 launch and their ability to generate revenue.
The likely spending focus of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard in the coming years is revealed in “A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower: Forward, Engaged, Ready,” released earlier this month.
India’s state-run space agency has proposed launching 10 satellites annually starting this year, setting an ambitious goal toward expanding the country’s space exploration program.
Former Beechcraft executive John Gibson II has been named chief executive officer and president of XCOR Aerospace in place of co-founder Jeff Greason, who is transitioning to chief technology officer.
Based on the Russian Kh-55, the Soumar is believed to have a range of at least 2,000 km. “This missile represents a significant leap in the Middle East arms race,” says Col. Aviram Hasson of Israel’s Missile Defense Organization.
U.S. Air Force crash investigators probing the loss of a two-seat F-15 in England last year have found the accident was prompted by imperfections in the nose cone of the aircraft. Post-crash analysis of the nose cone of the Lakenheath, U.K.-based F-15D that crashed onto farmers’ fields outside the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire, on Oct. 8 revealed a large gap between the radome and the nose cap, and that excessive amounts of sealant to close that gap had “extruded behind the nose-cap creating an uneven aerodynamic surface.”
Controllers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are beginning a complex set of 44 deployments on four scientific spacecraft launched late March 12 to study what happens when clouds of space plasma collide with an explosive release of energy.
The U.K. defense ministry says it wants a vanilla fleet of upgraded AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to replace its existing fleet of WAH-64D Block I aircraft – but it is facing a difficult choice about who to approach for the upgrade.
Chinese rocket builder CALT has assembled the airframe of the first Long March 5, a new type of space launcher that will loft the country’s heaviest loads into space.
The submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) has completed repairs and other work on an assortment of U.S. Navy ships supporting multiple U.S. naval assets.
Five E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 125 are set to make their first deployment as part of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1 aboard the aircraft carrier CVN 71 USS Theodore Roosevelt.
