The Swedish air force will prepare a requirement for an air-launched land-attack cruise missile “in the next few months,” chief of staff Maj. Gen. Micael Byden tells Aviation Week.
“In the face of budgetary uncertainty, cutting ships is the most damaging and less reversible course of action, which is why I am committed to preserving shipbuilding,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says.
China, the Asia-Pacific region and the entire global security network would be better served if China would support Taiwan’s efforts to participate in security, military and other international exercises and programs, the Center for Strategic and International Studies says.
India will buy 38 PC-7 Mark II basic trainers from Pilatus in addition to the 75 aircraft already purchased from the Swiss airframer to meet the need for 181 Basic Trainer Aircraft for Stage I flying training for the Indian air force.
Using an xenon-ion propulsion system, rather than conventional chemical propellant, the 702SP requires about eight months transit time to reach its final operating position in geosynchronous orbit.
RAYTHEON has $122.4m U.S. Navy contract modification for 114 Tomahawk Block IV All Up Round missiles; deliveries by August 2017. NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $63.7m U.S. Navy contract for long-lead components, material, parts and other work to maintain the MQ-4C Triton UAV planned production schedule. Work expected to be complete in February 2016. KONGSBERG has $73m LOCKHEED MARTIN order for rudders and vertical leading edges for F-35 production lots 9 and 10.
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Just one day after Piaggio Aerospace disclosed the first flight of its HammerHead UAV, the company has confirmed the Italian air force as the system’s launch customer. Italy will purchase six P.1HH HammerHead air vehicles and three ground control stations, Piaggio announced on the final day of the IDEX defense show in Abu Dhabi. The order is a major coup for the HammerHead, which completed the first flight in its final aerodynamic configuration on Dec. 22.
Korean Airlines, with backing from Airbus, has bid to develop South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter, presenting competition to the country’s leading combat aircraft company, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI).
Testifying before the House Science space subcommittee Friday, William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s human spaceflight chief, said he expects those seats will cost about 9% more than the $76 million each the U.S. agency paid most recently.
The prospect of continued combat operations in the Middle East is driving Australia’s contemplated order for armed pilotless aircraft, a move that is backed by one of the country’s leading defense analysts.
With the specter of sequestration and other budget cuts threatening to whittle away again at U.S. Navy’s spending plans across the future years defense program (FYDP), Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, has one overriding request for lawmakers: save the funding for the Ohio-class replacement (ORP) fleet.
Israel has finally acknowledged that its Arrow-2 anti-ballistic missile system failed a September 2014 intercept test. The Israeli defense ministry also said that a December 2014 test of the Arrow-3 system was aborted due to a malfunction in the target missile.
The Laser Directed Energy Weapon Capability Demonstrator is a program being run by the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, which will “enhance the U.K.’s understanding of the capability of a laser-based weapon system.”
Italy will purchase six P.1HH HammerHead air vehicles and three ground control stations, Piaggio announced on the final day of the IDEX defense show in Abu Dhabi on Feb. 26.
KAMAN AEROSPACE earned $108.7m on $633m in 2014 vs. $102.6m on $614m in 2013; it expects low single-digit growth in 2015. AEQUS, India, agreed to acquire a minority stake in SPARTACUS3D, France (additive layer manufacturing), from Farinia Group to advance its aerospace manufacturing capabilities. SAFRAN says it is very interested in the collaboration’s potential.
Lawmakers are not united on much these days, but Republicans and Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee are pressing the Obama administration to provide defensive, lethal military assistance to Ukraine. Christine Wormuth, the Pentagon’s under secretary for policy, told the committee Feb. 25 that the Defense Department will be watching to see that the Minsk ceasefire agreements will be upheld. But even Rep.
Iridium Communications Inc. says it will postpone the launch of its first two next-generation mobile communications satellites atop a commercial Dnepr rocket because of delays in spacecraft software development.
A series of five Earth-monitoring satellites launched by NASA over the past year is beginning to move from calibration to data-taking in ways that suggest they will enhance researchers’ understanding of how the planet’s climate is changing.
More than 500 small satellites will be launched in the next five years, a two-thirds increase in the average number per year compared with the past decade, according to Euroconsult.
