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The aircraft disembarked from Patuxent River, Maryland, on Aug. 30 aboard an Aussie-owned Boeing C-17.
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U.S. warships and submarines could soon employ Raytheon’s Tomahawk Land Attack Missile Block IV against enemy surface vessels.
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By Tony Osborne
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), manufacturer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, has begun an investigation into the cause of the hard landing that damaged the aircraft during its second post-rebuild flight.
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By Bradley Perrett
Japan would purchase six Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightnings under the budget request that the defense ministry has submitted for the fiscal year beginning in April 2017.
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By Graham Warwick
The Perlan 2 stratospheric glider has arrived in Argentina to begin flight testing aimed at breaking the world altitude record for gliders of 50,671 ft.—set in Argentina in August 2006 by the Perlan 1—en route to achieving the goal of flying at 90,000 ft.
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Led by UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous, a new trend has introduced multiple types of drones deployed with the UN stabilization mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali.
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By Graham Warwick
Elbit Systems of America is drawing up plans to offer commercial services using a company-owned fleet of Hermes 450 large unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
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By Bradley Perrett
The Royal Australian Navy plans to acquire unmanned helicopters as part of experiments aimed at fielding an operational shipborne surveillance system within 10 years.
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​Richard D. Fisher, Jr
Failing to sustain the island nation will only accelerate the “China Dream” in which Beijing diminishes all democracies, not just Taiwan.
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By Guy Norris
As SpaceX begins investigating the causes of the Sept. 1 accident that destroyed a Falcon 9 and its payload, questions are mounting over the near- and far-term implications of the failure for the launch company, its commercial customers, NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
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By Mark Carreau
NASA astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins retracted an aging, deactivated 44-ft.-long International Space Station thermal control system radiator during a Sept. 1 spacewalk.
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By Graham Warwick
A cubesat from a team at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, has been selected by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as the first to be launched under the KiboCUBE program.
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Raytheon Missile Systems is one flight test away from securing its second production lot for the GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II, which buys 250 units of the network-enabled, all-weather glide bomb.
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An attack version of the Lockheed Martin-Korea Aerospace Industries T-50 Golden Eagle supersonic trainer aircraft could be next in line to receive an airworthiness appraisal from the U.S. Air Force.
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By Mark Carreau
Might launching human explorers to Mars, as NASA hopes to do by the mid-2030s, accelerate the pace of discovery and possibly even settle the question of whether the Red Planet once hosted some form of life and possibly still does?
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Two years after its ninth and final flight, Boeing’s high-altitude, long-endurance Phantom Eye UAV subscale prototype is to become an exhibit at the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards AFB in California.
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By Marhalim Abas
Myanmar has received 10 Grob G 120TP turboprop trainers, completing an order for 20 placed three years ago. The first 10 arrived in June 2015.
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By Bradley Perrett
Heroux-Devtek of Canada will work with South Korea’s Hanwha to develop landing gear for the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-X fighter.
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By Tony Osborne
The UK defense ministry is planning a second round of flight trials to demonstrate the potential of rotary-wing unmanned aircraft systems.
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The U.S. Air Force is pressing forward with a competition for the early design phase of its new nuclear ICBM program—absent of "Milestone A" approval from the Pentagon—as it revises earlier cost estimates.
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By Jen DiMascio
Canada buys Blackjack UAS; F-35Bs to deploy to Central Command; CVN 78 carrier under the microscope; South Korea receives Apache pilot trainer.
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By Michael Bruno
Textron will cut jobs and restructure, including ending its Sensor-Fuzed Weapon product, the company quietly announced Aug. 30.
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By Tony Osborne
Ukrainian aerospace company Antonov and China’s Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) have signed a cooperation agreement to build a second prototype of the world’s largest aircraft, the An-225 Mriya.
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By Michael Bruno
The Pentagon should develop a formal program to regularly recruit workers from commercial autonomy enterprises to serve with the military, especially in operations, according to a new Defense Science Board report.
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By Mark Carreau
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson’s shot at breaking astronaut colleague Jeff Williams’ soon-to-be-established U.S. record for time accumulated in space over a career has just dimmed.
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