With the Pentagon’s top research and engineering officials rattling lecterns to focus U.S. industry’s attention on providing more hypersonic weapons and defenses against purported Russian and Chinese advances, companies such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Aerojet Rocketdyne and others are positioning to be players in the market.
The Philippine Navy’s two Leonardo AW159 Wildcat multirole helicopters will be armed with the LIG Nex1 Blue Shark lightweight torpedo as its main anti-submarine weapon, the South Korean company says.
The Philippine Coast Guard has placed an order for an Airbus H145 helicopter, making it the first government customer of the rotorcraft in the country.
India has developed an underwater drone capable of sending real-time video of ships and underwater structures to assist in a wide range of operations in rescue and defense.
A USAF probe of a Northrop Grumman RQ-4 crash has faulted procedures that undermined the quadruplex redundancy design of the UAS's onboard navigation system.
Boeing’s effort to sell KC-46 refueling tanker to Israel may have received a lift after objections raised by an Israeli company seem to have been resolved.
The U.S. Marine Corps is awaiting defense secretary approval to take the Boeing Compact Laser Weapons System to the field, the service’s program manager says.
A $19 million Series B venture capital round will allow Capella Space to go ahead with the planned November launch of its first small sat, executives said.
Aviation services and MRO giant AAR expects to sell its Afghanistan war-related contractor-owned, contractor-operated aviation services business by next May.
For Arianespace, the mission is a milestone, since it is the 100th launch of an Ariane 5 since its inception in 1996. The two satellites are the 206th and 207th launched by the heavy-lift vehicle.
“Northrop Grumman intends to be a dominant player in the counter-hypersonics space or lead it,” Vice President of Missile Defense Solutions Kenn Todorov told Aerospace DAILY.
The U.S. Marine Corps is assessing various acquisition methods to purchase the Marine Air-Ground Task Force expeditionary unmanned aircraft system (MUX).
