Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The guided-missile destroyer DDG 112 USS Michael Murphy left Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam earlier this month for an independent deployment to the

HOUSTON — Cosmonauts Maxim Suraev and Alexander Samokutyaev discarded unneeded hardware from outside the International Space Station’s Russian segment

As Japan resurrects its national military interest and the U.S. works through revised cooperation guidelines with its Asian ally, there is increasing

The U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) navies will participate this week in Exercise Clear Horizon, an annual bilateral exercise between the two nation

As the U.S. Navy continues to shift more of its forces to the Asia-Pacific region as part of its global rebalancing and China’s People Liberation Army

LOCKHEED MARTIN posted $888m net income on $11.1b sales for 3Q14 vs. $873m on $11.3b in 3Q13, and delivered 18 aircraft (three F-16s; eight F-35s

Northrop Grumman is protesting its loss of a contract potentially worth $1 billion to Raytheon to design and build the next-generation air defense

Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Kremlin-controlled military aircraft maker Irkut, a subsidiary of United Aircraft Corp., based on Russia’s

NEW DELHI—India and Russia are nearly clear of a period of extended friction over their joint Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA), with

LONDON—The Swedish armed forces are in the midst of a major operation in the waters of the Stockholm archipelago after “credible sightings” of a possible submarine. The naval operation, which began on Oct. 18, comes after what officials describe as “several credible sightings” of an object at three different locations in the region. Senior officers said the Swedish navy was “seeking to confirm foreign submarine operations.”

LONDON—The Swedish armed forces are in the midst of a major operation in the waters of the Stockholm archipelago after “credible sightings” of a possible submarine. The naval operation, which began on Oct. 18, comes after what officials describe as “several credible sightings” of an object at three different locations in the region. Senior officers said the Swedish navy was “seeking to confirm foreign submarine operations.”

The head of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) said he wants to reorganize the force into mobile divisions and brigades with enhanced

The U.S. Defense Department is preparing its forces for the effects of climate change, a recent Pentagon report says. “We are integrating climate

GAVIAO PEIXOTO, Brazil—Embraer is preparing for a first flight of the KC-390 military transport before year’s end, following the rollout of the first

HOUSTON— By March 2015, startup Waypoint 2 Space Inc. intends to begin training commercial space travelers for flight. The company will follow a

U.S. Navy Seals and Marine Special Operations (Marsoc) forces from Special Operations Command Pacific conducted maritime interoperability training

LOCKHEED MARTIN delivered first Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument for NOAA’s GOES-R weather satellites. Integration of the tornado

MOSCOW/BEIJING — A deal for China to buy Sukhoi Su-35s, under negotiation for several years, looks like it is going through. Russian Vice Premier Dmitry Rogozin says the partners may sign a deal in November. “There will be a meeting of joint [Russo-Chinese] commission on military-technical cooperation in November. I think they will solve this issue there,” the Interfax-AVN news agency quotes Rogozin as saying.

Sierra Nevada isn’t giving up on its Dream Chaser commercial space crew vehicle. With billions at stake, the company has asked the U.S. Court of

The U.S. Army is conducting market research for technologies that will allow a network of “pseudolites” to take over the role of the GPS constellation

Intevac, the company building a new night vision camera for F-35 pilots, is expecting its next production lot of work for its Apache helicopter

LONDON — Fifteen U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoons have been upgraded with new hardware and software by BAE Systems, giving the aircraft

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) says its Oct. 17 non-intercept test dubbed FTX-20 was successful at demonstrating that data from airborne

LONDON — Russian Helicopters has completed ground tests and the first flight of the fourth prototype of its Mi-38 heavy helicopter. The first flight

The comet Siding Spring 2013 whizzed past Mars on Oct. 19, leaving the constellation of scientific spacecraft orbiting the planet undamaged and beginning to transmit the scientific take from their unprecedented close encounter with an Oort Cloud object.