India spent 838.48 billion rupees ($13.5 billion) acquiring defense equipment from foreign vendors during the last three fiscal years, Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar says.
Gulfstream Aerospace and Spirit AeroSystems have settled a case in which Spirit alleged it had sustained damages for incomplete payments for wings it manufactured for Gulfstream’s G650 aircraft.
New Zealand and U.S.-based sounding rocket and launch vehicle developer Rocket Lab has secured a further round of financing which will enable it to complete work on the Electron launch system and allow commercial operations to begin as early as 2016.
Rolls-Royce is moving assembly of the three-bearing swivel (3BSM) module, a key component of the Lockheed Martin F-35B lift system, from the U.K. to a newly-built lift system facility in Indianapolis, as part of broader cost-saving initiatives for the Joint Strike Fighter program.
The Bell-Boeing consortium that builds the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor has withdrawn from the competition to meet Canada’s Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) requirements before a request for proposals (RFP) was issued, partly because of the way the program was due to be funded.
U.S. Navy Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 135 recently participated in the annual two-week multilateral Cope North 2015 training exercise at Andersen AFB, Guam.
The U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (Navfac Exwc) completed tests on a prototype reverse osmosis (RO) system for the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) in February, service officials report.
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is in "excellent condition" and on track to be captured into orbit on schedule by the dwarf planet Ceres in the early hours of March 6, says mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Astronauts just completed a successful eight-day, three-spacewalk campaign to install communications antennas and extend utility cables to two future docking ports.
BAE Systems is targeting Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter operators as initial customers after receiving U.S. government approval to export its laser missile jammer, the ALQ-212 Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures (Atircm) system.
The Swedish air force will prepare a requirement for an air-launched land-attack cruise missile “in the next few months,” chief of staff Maj. Gen. Micael Byden tells Aviation Week.
“In the face of budgetary uncertainty, cutting ships is the most damaging and less reversible course of action, which is why I am committed to preserving shipbuilding,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says.
China, the Asia-Pacific region and the entire global security network would be better served if China would support Taiwan’s efforts to participate in security, military and other international exercises and programs, the Center for Strategic and International Studies says.
India will buy 38 PC-7 Mark II basic trainers from Pilatus in addition to the 75 aircraft already purchased from the Swiss airframer to meet the need for 181 Basic Trainer Aircraft for Stage I flying training for the Indian air force.
Using an xenon-ion propulsion system, rather than conventional chemical propellant, the 702SP requires about eight months transit time to reach its final operating position in geosynchronous orbit.
RAYTHEON has $122.4m U.S. Navy contract modification for 114 Tomahawk Block IV All Up Round missiles; deliveries by August 2017. NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $63.7m U.S. Navy contract for long-lead components, material, parts and other work to maintain the MQ-4C Triton UAV planned production schedule. Work expected to be complete in February 2016. KONGSBERG has $73m LOCKHEED MARTIN order for rudders and vertical leading edges for F-35 production lots 9 and 10.
