Defense and Space

The Pentagon is sending a Patriot anti-missile battery, reconnaissance aircraft and an additional 1,500 U.S. troops to the Middle East to deter Iran.

Saab is preparing to deliver the first of three new GlobalEye airborne earning warning aircraft to the United Arab Emirates next April, company CEO Hakan Bushke has disclosed.

After Sikorsky received a $1.3 billion contract for 12 CH-53K King Stallions, the company is “bullish” about the future and recently invested $4 million in one machine to support the production ramp, the company’s president said.

Nearly a year after a propellant leak suspended Boeing CST-100 Starliner launch abort motor tests, the company successfully put the repaired system through a series of static firings.

The British Royal Air Force (RAF) has quietly begun testing Leonardo’s BriteCloud active decoy on its Eurofighter Typhoons.

The Philippines says it is hoping to acquire at least two Lockheed P-3 Orion maritime patrollers from the U.S.

The Planetary Society’s experimental LightSail 2 (LS 2) small satellite is ready for a high-altitude orbital test of a sunlight-propulsion technology for CubeSats.

Danish CubeSat manufacturer GomSpace is to design what could be the first standalone nanosatellite to rendezvous with an asteroid.

Thermal management devices for spacecraft that use graphene to improve heat transfer are undergoing testing in a zero-gravity parabolic flight campaign funded by the European Union’s Graphene Flagship project.

Nine teams have been selected to develop artificial intelligence for high-speed drones and compete in the first racing series for autonomous aircraft.

Two pillars of NASA human spaceflight—Christopher Kraft, Jr., the agency’s first flight director, and retired astronaut Peggy Whitson—have been inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame.

Greece receives refurbished P-3; GPS OCX drama continues; India launches new SAR satellite; and Sikorsky pitches CH-53K to Israel.

The acquisition of Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missiles by Turkey will create a “new order” in the air spaces of the region, primarily affecting Israel and the U.S., Israeli sources said on May 23.

Héroux-Devtek, the Canadian-based No. 3 landing gear provider, is boosting its portfolio of work for OEM Boeing, including a new acquisition and the expansion of F-15 gear supply.

The Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee does not have any major deviations from the Pentagon’s fiscal 2020 budget request.

NASA has awarded a hotly competed contract to Maxar to build and fly a high-powered solar electric satellite bus that will become the base module of the agency’s planned lunar-orbiting Gateway.

First flight of the Sukhoi S-70 unmanned combat air vehicle could be delayed by a year.

India has once again test-fired the air-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from its frontline Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter, paving the way for the induction of the missile into its air force.

U.S. Air Force scientists have demonstrated a technology that can be used to create secure communication links between satellites and the Earth and allow networking between quantum computers.

The need for faster, longer-range, more survivable rotorcraft is taking on increasing urgency within the service.

The USMC has been working with the DOD's CAPE office to determine whether buying the CH-47 instead of the CH-53K King Stallion is a viable option.

Raytheon has detonated the warhead of a proposed surface-launched missile for the U.S. Army for the first time, moving a step closer to a planned flight test later this year.

Saab is preparing to flight test a new jammer pod using the technologies from the electronic warfare system fitted to the new Gripen E fighter.

Britain has deployed six of its nine UK-based F-35s to Cyprus for the type’s first overseas exercise.

Infrastructure for standing up a new land-based, intercontinental missile with a hypersonic glide vehicle has been deployed in southwest Russia, the Ministry of Defense announced in Moscow on May 22.