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A new U.S. Government Accountability Office report continues to question the Littoral Combat Ship's lethality – especially when it comes to its offensive missiles.
The probe of a fatal crash of a Hawker Hunter fighter at an airshow in August is focusing on regulations surrounding the maintenance of former military aircraft and the fitment of ejection seats in them.
Two Indonesian pilots died when their almost-new Korea Aerospace Industries TA-50 trainer-attack aircraft crashed during an aerobatic display at an air show on Dec. 20.
India has decided to buy five S-400 supersonic air defense systems from Russia for an estimated 400 billion rupees ($6 billion) to guard against airborne threats from across the country’s borders.
The Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) was awarded a $34.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract earlier this month for lifecycle engineering and support services on the U.S. Navy’s LPD 17 USS San Antonio class of amphibious transport docks, the company has confirmed.
U.S., Indian and Japanese officials recently recognized the importance of working with China on global issues, but agreed that such agreements are not moderating Chinese behavior in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, a CSIS report says.
While the U.S. Navy, contractors and analysts are still digesting this month’s directed shakeup of the service’s acquisition strategy by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, some potential winners are emerging.
The NASA-led International Space Station’s Mission Management Team is preparing for a possible unplanned spacewalk on Dec. 21 or 22 to move and secure the space station’s mobile transporter.
The destroyer DDG 1000 Zumwalt assisted with a rescue mission earlier this month while on sea trials about 40 nm southeast of Portland, Maine, the U.S. Coast Guard says.
NASA’s Curiosity rover is finding puzzling clues of a changing environment on ancient Mars as the robotic geologist travels up the base of Mount Sharp.
Active terrain on Pluto discovered in the New Horizons probe’s July 14 flyby appears to be driven by a thick layer of nitrogen ice at the bottom of the heart-shaped basin dubbed Sputnik Planum.
The amphibious assault ship LHA 6USS America is the first West Coast ship to have its flight deck upgraded with a thermal spray coating in key landing areas in order to more fully support the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters
Turbomeca’s Arrius 2R turboshaft—the first European engine to be fitted to a Bell-produced helicopter—has been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
The arms sales to Taiwan announced by the Obama administration earlier this month will help boost the Asian country’s missile and naval operations, according to sources familiar with the deal.
The future DDG 115 USS Rafael Peralta achieved “light off” of its Aegis Combat System earlier this month at the Bath Iron Works (BIW) shipyard, U.S. Navy officials say.
As Japan, South Korea (ROK), and China start to work on better trilateral relationships, security concerns continue to drive wedges between the nations, says Evans Revere, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior adviser with the Albright Stonebridge Group.
