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While the US Air Force has been trying to retire its fleet of RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 UAVs, the House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee is again stepping in to keep the birds flying.
A US House Armed Services subcommittee on Wednesday approved legislation that would allow the use of multiyear contracts for interceptor missiles, require an Air Force plan for buying a key rocket and press Moscow on supplying missile components to rogue
Israeli annual export sales of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) averaged US $578 million over the past eight years and should grow by up to 10 percent yearly through 2020, according to Frost & Sullivan.
North Korea Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the UN chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions.
The White House is working to fill several high-level Pentagon posts as incumbents prepare to step down as the Obama administration begins a second term amid a fury of budget uncertainty.
The acquisition of Northrop Grumman's MQ-4C Triton unmanned air vehicle took a step closer yesterday with the Australian government announcement that it would issue a letter of request to the US for pricing and availability data.
France will buy two medium-altitude Reaper drones from the US Air Force to back up its operations against Islamists in Mali, the Air et Cosmos specialist magazine reported Friday.
France expects the US will soon approve the speedy shipment of two Reaper surveillance drones after sending a formal request in early May, American and French sources said.
The Obama administration has floated the idea of putting the CIA's controversial targeted killing operations under the control of the armed services.
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In the chaotic September 2009 rescue of New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell in northern Afghanistan by British special forces who were ferried to the mission by US special operations aircraft, Farrell’s interpreter, Sultan Munadi, and a British paratrooper were killed.
The US Navy launched an unmanned jet off an aircraft carrier Tuesday morning.
Lockheed Martin has named Roderick 'Rod' McLean vice president and general manager of the F-16/F-22 Integrated Fighter Group (IFG), the company announced Monday.
A Russian-made Yemeni military jet ploughed into a residential district of the capital Sanaa on Monday, killing the pilot, officials said, and witnesses said it exploded in mid-air before crashing.
European missile maker MBDA looks like it will score three out of three major government deals for a longer range Aster air defense system, an anti-tank weapon and a helicopter-borne anti-ship missile.
In just six months as commander of Israel's Air Defense Forces, Shahar Shochat presided over the largest joint drill with the US, led Iron Dome defenders through eight days of high-intensity rocket attacks from Gaza and is poised on high alert to defend a
France is looking to sell naval company DCNS to electronics specialist Thales and broker a partnership between Nexter and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann in a bid to beat a budget crunch and slim down the land weapons sector, a source briefed on the subject said.
Australia's troubled MRH 90 battlefield helicopter project took a significant step forward May 9 with the announcement of a Deed of Undertaking between the Commonwealth and prime contractor Australian Aerospace and its industry partners.
Saudi King Abdullah has dismissed and retired air force chief Gen. Mohammed al-Ayesh by royal decree, the official SPA news agency reported Friday, without elaborating on why.
Flawed assumptions and immature data were behind a 150 percent rise in the estimated cost of Britain switching its planned carrier strike aircraft force from the STOVL F-35B to the conventional takeoff F-35C, says a report from the National Audit Office (
Denmark's ranking military officer 'strongly believes' his country will settle on its next-generation fighter design by mid-2015, expressing confidence in a timetable laid out earlier this year.
US senators questioned top Air Force officials on whether the service can handle the responsibilities of safeguarding America's nuclear arsenal, following the reassignment of 17 USAF officers who would launch warheads upon presidential order.
A decision on which bases will host the US Air Force's new tanker program is coming before the end of May.
Even congressional Democrats, typically less hawkish than their GOP cohorts, are beginning to talk about a proposed East Coast missile shield as if it's a done deal.
Anyone watching from the ground in Afghanistan might have stared in astonishment at the strange battle that broke out overhead one day in 2011.
Turkish procurement officials said they are near to signing a $3.5 billion contract with Sikorsky Aircraft for the co-production of scores of utility helicopters.
While Australia uses a variety of air-launched precision weapons it has not developed any such weapons beyond a wing kit for the GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM), which are used on its F/A-18A/B Hornet and F/A-18F Super Hornet strike fighters.
France will develop and build a new anti-ship missile with the UK, taking a big step in bilateral cooperation that allows European missile maker MBDA to consolidate industrial capabilities, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
Canadian government procurement specialists are scrambling to release a bid package to industry for a multibillion-dollar military search-and-rescue aircraft after a scathing report from the auditor general warned the nation's search capability is at a br
A French test of an M51submarine-launched ballistic missile failed on Sunday as it self-destructed off the coast of Brittany, officials said.
DAMASCUS — Israeli warplanes hit a weapons shipment in Syria headed for Lebanon's Hezbollah, media quoted US officials as saying, with a diplomatic source reporting Saturday that the strikes targeted arms stored at Damascus airport.
An internal US Air Force office tasked with finding a way to unify the three branches of the service is going full speed to provide their final recommendations this summer.
Britain's Royal Air Force may add MBDA's Brimstone missile to the list of weapons it can fire from its fleet of Reaper remotely piloted air systems (RPAS), according to the Ministry of Defence.
Australia announced plans to purchase 12 new-build Boeing EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack aircraft although it affirmed its commitment to the Joint Strike Fighter program.
ThalesRaytheonSystems (TRS) expects sales of digital Ground Master (GM) air defense radars to France to slow, but the French-American joint venture is bullish on prospects elsewhere in Europe and in North Africa, the Middle East and South America, CEO Jac
The recent announcement that New Zealand is to acquire more Seasprite helicopters will expand naval operational capabilities but finding the personnel to maintain and operate them remains a problem.
Sweden's Defense Ministry is set to discuss the implementation of new advance warning and rapid reaction structures after the disclosure that Russian aircraft conducted a nighttime 'simulated' attack on key Swedish military and civilian installations last
India has postponed the development of the homegrown Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) program, according to sources in the Indian Defence Ministry, because the MoD first wants to complete the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) program.
Canada's potential participation in the US military's continental missile defense system is once again under consideration, sparking a debate in Canada on whether it makes sense to take part in the ground-based interceptor shield.
A senior South African diplomat has been suspended over use of a military airport by wealthy Indian supporters of President Jacob Zuma, the government said Thursday, amid a deepening political scandal.
Italy's Alenia Aermacchi has been awarded a $141 million contract by Lockheed Martin for the production of components for the Joint Strike Fighter, as well as for the assembly of the first complete wing for the aircraft, the firm said.
FlightSafety has won the contract to provide the training system for the US Air Force's new tanker, the service announced today.
The United States and South Korea on Tuesday wrapped up military drills at the center of soaring tensions with North Korea, as Pyongyang ignored a new overture over a flagship joint industrial zone.
Sixteen US House Republicans say they will clear the Pentagon to begin building an East Coast missile shield, and are urging a key colleague to write the check.
United Nations peacekeepers are set to get their own unmanned air vehicle capability as the organization closes on a deal to have a contractor provide an intelligence-gathering service in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Canada's military wants its next unmanned aerial system to be capable of dropping search-and-rescue supplies in the Arctic and in other areas as it looks to expand UAV roles into activities formerly conducted by manned platforms.
China's UAV development appears to have bypassed the cottage industry stage where many Western UAV programs find their roots and has emerged onto the high-tech stage as if it appeared out a fog.
Political and social considerations have turned UAVs into a controversial topic in Germany, especially with German national elections coming this fall.
The US Army is taking a multipronged approach to upgrading its rotary-wing and unmanned aircraft fleets, investing in technologies that will not only allow helicopter pilots to monitor feeds from drones, but also operate the sensors and weapon systems fro
The heightening Nordic focus on soldier protection has spurred the region's leading UAV manufacturers to prioritize development of sophisticated micro-technologies.
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