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China’s First C919 Airliner Makes Maiden Flight
SHANGHAI --- The long-awaited China's homegrown passenger plane C919 lifts off on its maiden flight at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Friday. Around 3,000 people witnessed the historic mo

Arianespace Launches Brazil’s First MilCom Satellite
BRASILIA --- The first geostationary satellite for defense and strategic communications(Satélite Geoestacionário de Defesa e Comunicações Estratégicas, or SGDC) was launched on Thursday (04), at 18:50

While Congress Stamps Its Feet, Money Keeps Flowing to F-35 Program
WASHINGTON --- Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are not pleased with the Pentagon office that is assigned to work with Lockheed Martin on negotiating a price for the F-35 fighter jet, the nation’s most expen

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China’s First C919 Airliner Makes Maiden Flight
SHANGHAI --- The long-awaited China's homegrown passenger plane C919 lifts off on its maiden flight at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Friday. Around 3,000 people witnessed the historic mo...

Arianespace Launches Brazil’s First MilCom Satellite
BRASILIA --- The first geostationary satellite for defense and strategic communications(Satélite Geoestacionário de Defesa e Comunicações Estratégicas, or SGDC) was launched on Thursday (04), at 18:50...

While Congress Stamps Its Feet, Money Keeps Flowing to F-35 Program
WASHINGTON --- Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are not pleased with the Pentagon office that is assigned to work with Lockheed Martin on negotiating a price for the F-35 fighter jet, the nation’s most expen...

US Navy Says Glitch In $126Bn SSBN Program Is Fixed
The first known glitch in a $126 billion nuclear-armed submarine program -- overheating of a prototype motor -- was disclosed by a key U.S. lawmaker this week and confirmed by the Navy, which said it ...

Punj Lloyd, IWI Set-Up India’s First Private-Sector Small Arms Plant
MALANPUR, India --- Diversified conglomerate Punj Lloyd and its JV Partner, Israel Weapon Industries (IWI), today inaugurated the country’s first private-sector small arms manufacturing plant at Malan...

Singapore Commissions First Littoral Mission Vessel
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong officiated at the commissioning of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN)'s first-of-class Littoral Mission Vessel (LMV), RSS Independence, at Changi Naval Base today. The...

Ariane 5 Launches SGDC and Koreasat-7 to Transfer Orbit
Arianespace orbited two telecommunications payloads for Brazil and South Korea on the 78th consecutive success performed with its Ariane 5 – confirming this vehicle’s position as the world reference f...

Safran Touts Role in China’s C919 Commercial Jet
SHANGHAI --- Safran is celebrating today the first flight of the C919, the first mainline commercial jet (over 100 seats) designed and built by Chinese planemaker Comac. Safran is one of the major ...

Chinese Air Force Looks to Improve Fighter Pilot Training
The People's Liberation Army Air Force is strengthening the intensity and difficulty of its combat exercises to improve pilot capabilities. In the past, exercises were normally executed in accordan...

Vector Space Systems Launches Test Rocket
MOJAVE, Calif. -- Vector Space Systems has conducted a successful test launch of its P-19H engineering model of the Vector-R launch vehicle. It's the first in a series of flight tests that will enable...

Marine Corps Looks to Return to Maritime Roots
SAN DIEGO --- For the past 14 years the United States Marine Corps has been engulfed in land-locked engagements in the Middle East. The message from the highest levels of Marine Corps leadership is it...

Navy, Marines Look At Future of Amphibious, Autonomous Warfare
ARLINGTON, Va. --- Augmented reality systems and advanced wireless networks were among the technologies shown during the Ship-to-Shore Maneuver Exploration and Experimentation Advanced Naval Technolog...

NATO National Armaments Directors Discuss Defence Spending
Top national defence procurement officials discussed innovation and new initiatives to support NATO capability efforts at the Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD) held at NATO Headquarter...

Hensoldt’s Spexer Ground Surveillance Radars Selling Well In MENA
MUNICH --- The "Spexer" radar family from Hensoldt, the former Electronics business unit of Airbus Defence and Space, is becoming a real export hit. Since the beginning of the year, Hensoldt has recei...

Russian Bombers and Fighters Intercepted Near Alaska
Two Tupolev Tu 95 Bear Bombers and two Su-35 'Flanker' jets were intercepted by US Air Force fighter jets on Thursday morning. The jets were intercepted around 50 miles off the coast of Alaska as t...

China Questions Japan’s Intent In Escorting US Ships
BEIJING --- The Japanese government sent the quasi-aircraft carrier Izumo-class helicopter destroyer under its Maritime Self-defense Force to escort the US supply ships in high profile on May 1, 2017,...

F-15C Eagle Tested in Northern Edge Exercise
ELMENDORF, Alaska --- Northern Edge 2017 training activities would not be complete without fighter pilots and their planes -- and takeoffs would not be complete without the dozens of behind-the-scenes...

Minotaur Market Likely to be Small But Steady
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The Minotaur will continue to be produced to carry spacecraft into orbit that are too small to justify the use of large, expensive Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles, or even Falcon ...

Australia's Newest Cape Class Patrol Boat Joins Navy
The first of two Austal-built Cape Class Patrol Boats has officially joined the Royal Australian Navy fleet. Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, said the new addition is a w...

L3 Completes First USAF KC-10 Tanker Maintenance
NEW YORK --- L3 Technologies announced today that it has delivered the first KC-10 aircraft under the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) contractor logistics support (CLS) contract. The on-time delivery is a ...

Russia to Air Drop BMD-4 AFVs in Course of User Trials
BMD-4 airborne fighting vehicles will be parachute-dropped from military transport aircraft in course of trials in the Ryazan region. Preparation for the landing operation will be held in one of th...

Polish Air Force F-16s Assume Baltic Air Police Mission
On the 1st of May, a four-month duty on the military air surveillance mission of the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Lithuania and the Republic of Latvia has been launched by Polish airmen from t...

EDA Study Looks At Medical Support for “Small” Operations
BRUSSELS --- The larger a military operation is in size (Member States, troops, equipment involved), the more sophisticated and complete the medical support tends to be. The military medical support o...

Austal Opens Adelaide Office to Win More Shipbuilding Work
Austal is pleased to announce the establishment of a new design and project management office in Adelaide, South Australia, to support the company’s expansion into one of Australia’s two major shipbui...

Cobham Touts Antennas to Counter Unlawful Drones
Cobham Antenna Systems draws on its vast range of resources to provide antenna solutions for systems designed to compromise the unlawful use of drones. A selection of these antennas will be on display...

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