Category: Notizie Estero

CANNES, France — Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), logged a number of successes in 2021, including key contracts, major industrial milestones and launches, a series of innovations and new capital investments.

Space to Explore: returning astronauts t…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. led-coalition in Syria struck several launch sites for short-range rockets believed to be intended for attacks on an installation used by U.S. troops in eastern Syria, officials said Tuesday.

The strikes against the launch sites apparently were conducted by U.S. forces, bu…

SEOUL — North Korea on Wednesday fired what appears to be a ballistic missile toward the East Sea, South Korea’s military said, in the recalcitrant regime’s first show of force this year.

The North launched the missile eastward at around 8:10 a.m. from a land-based platform, the Joint Chiefs of…

TOKYO — The Japanese Defense Ministry will develop a means to intercept hostile missiles using magnetically powered projectiles, sources told Nikkei Asia, as the nation scurries to respond to the hypersonic weapons being developed by China, North Korea and Russia.

The ministry is focusing on ra…

WASHINGTON — A new arms technology is coming into its own, and the U.S. Defense Department is determined to achieve quick results in the field. Rather than select one or two concepts and usher them through the deliberate, highly structured process of research, development, testing, and evaluation,…

Canadians will get a better idea this year of which fighter jet the Liberal government intends to buy for the country’s air force.

The decision amounts to more than a simple choice between two expensive new aircraft: the American F-35 and the Swedish Gripen-E. It’s expected to say a lot about how…