Defense and Space

The Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for research and engineering wants to bring particle-beam weapons back into vogue.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Britain has begun initial studies for a low-cost unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has declassified details of an air raid on a nuclear facility in Syria 11 years ago.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The threat from swarms of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) will emerge much sooner than the military believes, a report for the U.S. Army says.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is eyeing a late 2022 mission to demonstrate whether a future asteroid on a collision course with the Earth could be deflected with a blow from a well-guided spacecraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Slovakia’s flying-car developer Aeromobil has unveiled its concept for an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
The Finnish Air Force has carried out live firings of Lockheed Martin’s Jassm as part of the weapon’s integration onto Helsinki’s F-18 Hornets.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Dorsal Aircraft plans to make intermodal shipping containers an integral part of an aircraft’s structure.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
The RAAF has achieved initial operational capability with the Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patroller, beating its target by five months.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
The Philippines is sticking by an order for two Indonesian Aerospace C212 light transport aircraft, despite a three-year delay.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
The aerostructures subsector, responsible for providing airframers the largest subassemblies, could become a lot more intimate in the next few years.
Program Management

Boeing is about to kick off an exhaustive effort to transition the U.S. Navy’s carrier air wing to the “Block III” Super Hornet.
Defense and Space

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Knowledge Center

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Marine Corps’ MUX expeditionary unmanned aircraft would be the most complex and capable UAS yet developed if a request for information were fulfilled.
Defense and Space

The U.S. Air Force is the payload provider for a secretive program with the U.S. Navy called High-power Joint Electromagnetic Non-Kinetic Strike, or “HiJENKS.”
Defense and Space

As the U.S. Army gets ready to develop another version of the Boeing AH-64 Apache, Raytheon wants to arm the long-serving gunship with a lethal laser.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is querying the U.S. private sector on lunar lander concepts that could deliver large payloads and astronauts to the Moon’s surface in the late 2020s.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party will recommend the government buy F-35Bs and convert a helicopter carrier to operate them, the Nikkei newspaper says.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
The Trump administration’s 2019 NASA spending plan proposes to fly the Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moon on a commercial launcher rather than the SLS rocket,
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
The South Korean army requires almost four times as many surface-to-surface missiles as it currently deploys.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
General Dynamics said March 20 it was raising its proposed offer for federal information tech and services provider CSRA by $0.50 per share.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Serial aerospace and defense acquirer TransDigm Group appears back in the swing of things, with the second acquisition announced in as many weeks.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
The French government has charged Dassault and Thales with creating an “ecosystem” to develop artificial intelligence technologies for combat aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett
F-35Bs would be especially useful for Taiwan because China is able to rain air-to-surface, cruise and short-range ballistic missiles on the island’s runways.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Shares of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions may be stabilizing after an 11% falloff the week before based on a report by a short-selling activist investor.
Defense and Space