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RAF Fairford, U.K. — The F-35 will not make its international debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT), the air show’s organizers have

RAF FAIRFORD, U.K. — Lockheed Martin has shared more details about the mysterious Block 61 standard F-16 Fighting Falcon that was revealed as being

SCORPION SHOWS: The Textron AirLand Scorpion made its international debut at this week’s Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in the U.K

PARIS — French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and U.K. Defense Minister Philip Hammond are expected to sign an agreement July 15 to study joint

Multiple bird strikes caused the fatal crash of a U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter in Norfolk U.K. earlier this year, investigators have

NEW DELHI — India plans to increase its defense spending by 12.5% over the previous year and further open its domestic weapons industry to foreign

NEW DELHI — India plans to develop advanced launch vehicle systems and improved Earth observational and communication satellites by 2020, a senior

HOUSTON — The Planetary Society is targeting May 2016 for the launch of its LightSail mission, a two- to three-month solar sail experiment that will

PARIS — Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) of Guilford, U.K., will build the medium-resolution Alsat-1B remote-sensing satellite for the Algerian

HOUSTON — The $1.1 billion joint U.S./German Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (Sofia), already caught in a budgetary crossfire, faces

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Lockheed Martin officials remain hopeful they can display the F-35 at air shows in the U.K. despite the ongoing grounding of the combat aircraft. With

PARIS — Greece has signed an agreement to purchase commercial satellite communications capacity through the European Union’s SatCom Market, joining

FUTRON BUY: Avascent, a Washington-based consultancy catering to “clients operating in government-driven markets,” has acquired the well-established

HOUSTON — The German Aerospace Center, DLR, has signed a launch services agreement with Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc., for the 2017 launch of Eu

PARIS — Russia debuted its new Angara-1.2 light launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on July 9, after a technical glitch delayed a

BEIJING — Following Japan’s decisions this year to drop its arms export ban and let its armed forces defend allies, the country is seeking to build up

PARIS — French lawmakers said July 8 that the nation’s €190 billion ($258 billion) military spending plan for the period 2014-19 is short €1.5 billion

A worldwide group of public organizations will be able to use hyperspectral imagery collected on the International Space Station as the result of a

HOUSTON — Experts from federal, state and local agencies will converge in Denver on July 16 to complete a three-year effort organized to improve North

LONDON — A U.K. government committee investigating the operational safety of offshore helicopter operations has called for regulatory change in light

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LONDON — The U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) has begun operations with its second batch of General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles over Afghanistan. The five-strong batch doubles the size of the RAF’s fleet to 10, increasing the number of MQ-9 combat air patrols to which the RAF can contribute.