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India’s national defense research agency conducted the first trials of a lightweight, homegrown anti-tank guided missile on Sept. 15 and 16 at the Ahmednagar test range in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.
The additional funding allows ATEC and GE to keep a small number of engineers working over the next six months on minor improvements to their competing engine designs.
Release of the hexagonal mobile explorers from the bottom of the mothership came at 12:06 a.m. EDT, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
The U.S. faces an uphill battle for hypersonic supremacy, warns Michael Griffin, the Pentagon’s new undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
The French air force is gearing up for the entry into service of the single-turboprop Pilatus PC-21, which will become its mainstay in pilot and weapon system officer (WSO) training.
The service “is considering a number of options to keep the MRTT relevant, safe and effective in the modern battle space, including advanced technologies such as automatic boom refueling and communication-node capabilities,” a spokesperson said.
The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) has ordered four more H225M Caracal utility helicopters, taking acquisitions of the type beyond a target set when the program began in 2012.
Russia’s TsAGI aerohydrodynamic research institute is studying superconducting motors as a way of improving the performance of electric and hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
The Japan Self Defense Force and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have verified the ability of the newest version of ballistic missile defense (BMD) on a recently upgraded Japanese destroyer in the Pacific Ocean.
This is XTI’s third campaign on Startengine.com to help finance a full-scale prototype of its TriFan 600 ducted-fan vertical-takeoff-and-landing business aircraft.
The U.S. government has blacklisted the head of China’s military arms procurement organization and the agency itself for buying Russian Su-35 fighters and air defense systems.
Software development companies in separate announcements on Sept. 20 described products designed to detect and track drone swarms and to monitor areas near airports to help prevent against bird strikes.
The Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm was the last operator of the Sea King, flying the Mk. 7 version. Two of the helicopters made a farewell flight from their home base at RNAS Culdrose Cornwall on Sept. 19.
The more the U.S. Navy adopts multi-domain operations for unmanned platforms from a carrier, the more the service is going to need greater connectivity across the force, says Sean Stackley, L3 Technologies corporate senior vice president.
