WASHINGTON — The Army is one step closer to improving its air and missile defense capabilities after a successful live-fire evaluation intercepted two low-altitude targets flying at close proximity Thursday.

The intercept test is part of the larger Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Comm…

LUXEMBOURG — Today, the second Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) aircraft was delivered to the Multinational MRTT Unit (MMU), at the Main Operating Base in Eindhoven (The Netherlands).

Upon completion of the acceptance process, the ownership of the aircraft was transferred (through OCCAR) from Ai…

On Saturday 15 August, Ariane 5 completed a flawless launch from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, orbiting two satellites and a life extension vehicle: Galaxy 30 for Intelsat, MEV-2 for SpaceLogistics LLC and BSAT-4b for B-SAT.

The launch marked Ariane 5’s 109th fligh…

Lockheed Martin, maker of the F-35 Lightning II family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth multirole combat aircraft, together with Israel’s Foreign Investment and Industrial Cooperation Authority, signed a new Industrial Cooperation Agreement (ICA) in a ceremony that was held at Lock…

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) completed its 11th independent steaming event (ISE 11) Aug. 5, and is now more than halfway through her post-delivery test and trials (PDT&T) phase of operations.

During ISE 11, Ford completed many major PDT&T milestones designed to exercise installed systems and condu…

CANNES, France — Thales Alenia Space, a joint-venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced that it has signed a contract with SES to build SES-22 and SES-23, geostationary communications satellites. These two new satellites are designed to provide digital broadcasting services over N…