The Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3USS Fort Worth practiced the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (Cues) with the People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) Jiangkai II frigate FFG 572 Hengshui last month, “enhancing the professional maritime relationship” between U.S. 7th Fleet and the PLAN, U.S. Navy officials say. Fort Worth and Hengshui were conducting routine training and operations in international waters of the South China Sea when training opportunity became available, Navy officials say.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) says the scheduled March 9 launch of the IRNSS-1D navigation satellite has been deferred after an anomaly was found in one of the telemetry transmitters of the spacecraft.
The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft, operational with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) for only about two years, is already in line for upgrades, notably for its Northrop Grumman Mesa radar.
Lockheed Martin will collaborate with laser-radar developer H.N. Burns Engineering to develop systems to enable helicopter pilots to fly in degraded visual environments (DVE).
U.S. and Japan naval forces participated in a four-day Fleet Synthetic Training-Joint (FST-J) exercise in late February for ballistic missile defense (BMD) operations.
India spent 838.48 billion rupees ($13.5 billion) acquiring defense equipment from foreign vendors during the last three fiscal years, Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar says.
Gulfstream Aerospace and Spirit AeroSystems have settled a case in which Spirit alleged it had sustained damages for incomplete payments for wings it manufactured for Gulfstream’s G650 aircraft.
New Zealand and U.S.-based sounding rocket and launch vehicle developer Rocket Lab has secured a further round of financing which will enable it to complete work on the Electron launch system and allow commercial operations to begin as early as 2016.
Rolls-Royce is moving assembly of the three-bearing swivel (3BSM) module, a key component of the Lockheed Martin F-35B lift system, from the U.K. to a newly-built lift system facility in Indianapolis, as part of broader cost-saving initiatives for the Joint Strike Fighter program.
The Bell-Boeing consortium that builds the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor has withdrawn from the competition to meet Canada’s Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) requirements before a request for proposals (RFP) was issued, partly because of the way the program was due to be funded.
U.S. Navy Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 135 recently participated in the annual two-week multilateral Cope North 2015 training exercise at Andersen AFB, Guam.
The U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (Navfac Exwc) completed tests on a prototype reverse osmosis (RO) system for the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) in February, service officials report.
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is in "excellent condition" and on track to be captured into orbit on schedule by the dwarf planet Ceres in the early hours of March 6, says mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Astronauts just completed a successful eight-day, three-spacewalk campaign to install communications antennas and extend utility cables to two future docking ports.
BAE Systems is targeting Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter operators as initial customers after receiving U.S. government approval to export its laser missile jammer, the ALQ-212 Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures (Atircm) system.
