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Order for 14 Launchers Kicks Off Ariane 6 Series Production
PARIS --- Following the initial institutional and commercial launch orders for Ariane 6 obtained by Arianespace since the autumn of 2017, and the resolution of the ESA Council on April 17, 2019, relat

Australia Needs 24-Hour Dehumidification to Prevent F-35 Corrosion
Australian defence officials have been urged to consider round-the-clock dehumidification systems at an Air Force base near Newcastle to curb the corrosion risk for its fleet of Joint Strike Fighter j

Japan Recovers Black Box from Crashed F-35A, But Key Data Missing
The Defense Ministry has retrieved part of the flight data recorder from a F-35A stealth fighter that went missing last month, but it was heavily damaged and did not include a storage device to record

Is Indian Military Aviation Reorienting?
Aviation has been a part of military kinetic capability for over a century now. Exactly 100 years ago, for the first time, an independent military aviation wing was established that later was rechrist...

Opinion: Boeing's 737 Defense Is A Textbook Mess
NEW YORK --- For decades, business schools have taught Johnson & Johnson’s handling of its 1982 Tylenol scandal as a textbook example of good crisis management. In the future, we can expect Boeing Co....

Order for 14 Launchers Kicks Off Ariane 6 Series Production
PARIS --- Following the initial institutional and commercial launch orders for Ariane 6 obtained by Arianespace since the autumn of 2017, and the resolution of the ESA Council on April 17, 2019, relat...

Australia Needs 24-Hour Dehumidification to Prevent F-35 Corrosion
Australian defence officials have been urged to consider round-the-clock dehumidification systems at an Air Force base near Newcastle to curb the corrosion risk for its fleet of Joint Strike Fighter j...

Japan Recovers Black Box from Crashed F-35A, But Key Data Missing
The Defense Ministry has retrieved part of the flight data recorder from a F-35A stealth fighter that went missing last month, but it was heavily damaged and did not include a storage device to record...

Airbus Wins 3 Satellite Orders from MEASAT, Spanish Government
MADRID / WASHINGTON, D.C. --- A four co-primes consortium formed by Airbus and Thales Alenia Space (both in Spain and France) has been selected by Hisdesat Servicios Estratégicos S.A. (Spanish Governm...

US Won’t Compete F-35 in Canada if RFP Requires Offsets
OTTAWA — U.S. officials have threatened to pull the F-35 out of the competition to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force’s aging CF-18 fighters over the Liberal government’s plan to ask bidders to re-i...

Pentagon Weighs CH-47 to Replace Troubled CH-53K
The Pentagon is assessing whether Boeing Co.’s heavy-lift helicopter for the Army, the CH-47 Chinook, could replace Lockheed Martin Corp.’s troubled King Stallion chopper for some or all Marine Corps ...

US Clears Sale of Four AH-1Z and Twelve UH-60M Helicopters to Czechia
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Czech Republic of four AH-1Z attack helicopters and related equipment for an estimated cost o...

China Asks Two US Warships to Leave South China Sea
WASHINGTON --- The U.S. military said two of its warships sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Monday, a move that angered Beijing at a time of tense ties between the world’s...

Assessing the Damage from Canada’s Fighter Replacement Fiasco
OTTAWA, ON --- In a hard-hitting new Macdonald-Laurier Institute report, MLI Senior Fellow Richard Shimooka takes a critical look at the government’s approach to replacing Canada’s aging fleet of CF-1...

Report Details How Chinese Companies Steal US Technology
Chinese companies utilize a variety of methods—many of them covert or coercive—to acquire valuable technology, intellectual property (IP), and knowhow from U.S. firms. These efforts are often made...

US Wary of Chinese, Russian Military Presence in Arctic
STATE DEPARTMENT --- Aimed at countering China and Russia's expansion in the Arctic, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday the United States will increase its military presence in the p...

Airbus Completes Major Step for Telesat’s LEO Constellation
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Airbus has successfully completed the System Definition and Risk Management Project of Telesat’s LEO constellation and submitted to Telesat both space and ground segments solution...

Launch of Fourth Scorpene Sub Gives Momentum to India Navy
The Indian Navy launched the fourth of its eventual six Scorpene submarines in its Project 75 effort on May 6. The launch marks an inflection point for a program that began in October 2005 when – afte...

China Says US Report “Exaggerates, Smears” Chinese Military
Recently, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has released the 2019 China military power report, and continued to exaggerate and smear China’s military activities. Regarding Chinese military power, ...

Harris to Support US Navy’s Boeing MQ-25 Unmanned Tanker
MELBOURNE, Fla. --- Harris Corporation has been awarded a contract by The Boeing Company to partner with Boeing AvionX in supplying the mission management open systems processor for the MQ-25 unmanned...

China Running Out of City Names for Warships
China is running out of provincial capitals to name new destroyers, and it might have to turn to other big domestic cities, which reflects the country's rapid naval development in recent years, milita...

Estonia Stops Wind Farm, Says Would Interfere with Air Defense Radars
Today, in order to protect the overriding public interest, which is the ensuring of national security, the Ministry of Defence contacted the Police and Border Guard Board (PBGB) with a request to enfo...

Raytheon Tests Rocket Motor for DARPA's MAD-FIRES Interceptor
YUMA Proving Ground, Ariz. --- Raytheon Company successfully tested a hot fire rocket motor for DARPA's Multi-Azimuth Defense Fast Intercept Round Engagement System, or MAD-FIRES. The MAD-FIRES in...

US Navy, Raytheon Test Excalibur N5 Munitions
YUMA Proving Ground, Ariz. --- Raytheon Company and the U.S. Navy completed a new round of successful Excalibur N5 munition test firings. The precision-guided projectiles demonstrated various short-, ...

EDA Briefs EU and NATO Member States on CDP
BRUSSELS --- Representatives of all EU and NATO Member States as well as the NATO International Staff were invited to the EDA premises today for an informal briefing on the revised Capability Developm...

FY20 Budget Modifies Acquisition Spending Plans
The Pentagon requested $718.3 billion in discretionary funding in FY20, which is 4.9 percent above the FY19 enacted level, or around 2.8 percent real growth after inflation. The White House had projec...

Northrop Unveils Next Gen Maritime Inertial Navigation System
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. --- Northrop Grumman Corporation has released SeaFIND (Sea Fiber Optic Inertial Navigation with Data Distribution), a next generation maritime inertial navigation system succeedin...

Destroyer DDG 133 to Be Named for Sen. Sam Nunn
WASHINGTON --- Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer named a future Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, DDG 133, in honor of U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, who represented Georgia from 1972 to 19...

Saab Exhibits at IMDEX Asia Show
Saab will be present at the IMDEX Asia 2019 international martime defence exhibition and conference, Changi Exhibition Centre, Singapore, from 14 to 16 May. Please visit us at Stand K15 in the main ex...

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