Northrop Grumman has asked rocket startup Firefly Aerospace to build a new version of its Antares rocket without Russian-made engines. “Through our collaboration, we will first develop a fully domestic version of our Antares rocket, the Antares 330, for Cygnus space station commercial resupply services, followed by an entirely new medium class launch vehicle,” said Scott Lehr, vice president and general manager, launch and missile defense systems, Northrop Grumman
Uralvagonzavod, a subsidiary of Russias state-owned Rostec, has handed over T-90M Proryv tanks and BREM-1M armored recovery vehicles to the Russian defense ministry. T-90M and BREM-1M are created by design engineers of the Ural Design Bureau of Transport Engineering of Uralvagonzavod
Boeing has signed a contract to continue providing full Performance Based Logistics (PBL) support to the Italian Air Force (ItAF) four KC-767A tankers through December 2025. The contract was awarded to the company by the Directorate for Air Armaments and Airworthiness (DAAA)
Almaz-Anteys All-Russian Research Institute of Radio Equipment (VNIIRT) said it is completing work on a new multi-purpose light quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV as high strength and low weight due to the use of modern materials such as carbon fiber and filled polymers
The technology war between the United States and China got a little more intense with the Pentagon announcing a series of project initiatives including a 6G for defense, while Chinese company SMIC has claimed the development of 7-nanometer chips that could have dual-purpose applications. On August 2, the Pentagon said it recently kicked off three new projects under the Innovate Beyond 5G (IB5G) Program
Belarus is reportedly deploying additional electronic warfare systems in Volyn and Polissia, close to the Ukrainian border. On Monday, the Ukrainian Armys
An explosive device attached to a small drone went off in a compound belonging to Russian Navy's Black Sea fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, according to a Russian navy release on Sunday. Medical assistance was provided to those who were injured by glass fragments in the result of the explosion, the official added
The Defense Department has come up with a strategy to deter what it calls Chinese ‘aggression in the Indo-Pacific region after a series of ‘unsafe encounters between Chinese aircraft and warships, and U.S
An air-launched missile created by Northrop Grumman managed to identify ‘hostile air defense systems during third captive flight tests held recently. Completed at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, the internally-funded test successfully validated the capability to identify and discriminate modern, integrated air defense systems and successfully tracked the intended targets during a series of captive flight maneuvers using the companys test aircraft
The Russian military has managed to destroy four High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) from July 5-20, defense ministry