Yearly Archive: 2020

DARPA and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) today announced successful completion of captive carry tests x and are ready to proceed to first free-flight testing within the calendar year. The joint Agency and Service effort seeks to develop and demonstrate critical technologies to enable an effective and aff…

HELSINKI — A response to a request for information, two rounds of calls for tenders, several weeks of negotiations with each tenderer, evaluation events abroad and a successful HX Challenge in Finland.

This is a summary of the data acquisition history of the HX project in recent years. Although…

The Shandong, China’s first domestically developed aircraft carrier – the country’s second overall – set out from shipyard on Tuesday for military exercises, which will reportedly be held in the Bohai Sea in the next 22 days. Experts expect the carrier to integrate with J-15 fighter jets that were n…

Since mass production of the Sukhoi Su-57 began last year, developers have announced a number of add-ons for the fifth-generation fighter, ranging from new hypersonic missiles to plans to allow it to control swarms of drones.

Russia’s Su-57 fighter jets are going to receive special protective clo…

Last August, Australia’s defence minister Linda Reynolds praised a computerised system that has a crucial role in the operation of Australia’s new F-35 fighter planes. Senator Reynolds described the system as “a cost-effective solution for key aspects of Australia’s F-35 maintenance management”. Onc…

The Space Development Agency announced yesterday the award of two contracts for what’s known as the first generation of the transport layer, the acting deputy undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, and director of defense research and engineering for modernization said.

These awa…