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Feb 28, 2022
Techniques developed to repair Hubble have been repurposed to shape Webb telescope’s primary mirror.
Feb 25, 2022
How KC-46 pilots, boom operators are teaching themselves the tanker’s new tricks.
Feb 24, 2022
A400 launches drone; Northrop wins deep-space radar contract; Australia to upgrade BAE trainers; Emiratis create swarming drone system.
Feb 24, 2022
Look to Syria to learn how U.S. and Russian forces handled congested airspace.
Feb 18, 2022
A major Rafale sale to Indonesia shakes up murky Southeast Asia fighter spending plans.
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Jul 25, 2023
The Pentagon is sending additional Patriot and National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) munitions to Ukraine.
Jul 25, 2023
Russia’s harassment of U.S. aircraft continues over Syria, this time with an Su-35 fighter damaging an MQ-9 Reaper UAV, forcing it to land.
Jul 25, 2023
Italy will send four F-35s to Komatsu air base on the northern coast of Honshu, the Japanese mainland—the first Italian deployment to Japan since the 1920s.
Jul 25, 2023
The SkyAlyne partnership between CAE and KF Aerospace was selected over a rival proposal from the Babcock Leonardo Canada Aircrew Training team.
Jul 24, 2023
Major UK defense programs are struggling with a lack of key skills and experience to bring them into service on cost and schedule.
Jul 24, 2023
Slovenia's modernization plans call for Ljubljana to purchase a second Leonardo C-27J twin-turboprop airlifter, among other platforms.
Jul 24, 2023
The Australian Defense Department has confirmed that it will be refreshing its Hercules fleet.
Jul 21, 2023
President Joe Biden has picked U.S. Navy Adm. Lisa Franchetti to lead the service, becoming the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.