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“We’re investing,” says Ted Colbert, outlining company plans on the eve of Farnborough Air Show.

The future of Navy and Marine airborne mine countermeasures will be influenced by past programs—and new technological capabilities.

Boeing and Nammo have conducted a series of ground-fire tests of Ramjet 155 Extended Range Artillery in Norway.

The time of the rocket is at an end, the time of the spaceplane is about to begin. At least that is what developers of them are hoping.

As the Army races forward to take flight in its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA), Breaking Defense contributor and acquisition expert Bill Greenwalt sees too many troubling parallels with the Air Force’s infamous production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. With taxpayer dollars and Army tactical capabilities in the balance, he argues in the op-ed below that Congress should act to prevent a costly repeat of history. Almost a decade ago, Frank Kendall, the acquisitions official...

Tritium charges to $2b Nasdaq listing May 26, 2021 – 8.40pm Share Home-grown electric vehicle fast-charger Tritium, backed by coal entrepreneurs Trevor St Baker and Brian Flannery, is set for a “double unicorn” listing on NASDAQ after signing a deal with a so-called blank cheque company in the US that looks set to put a rocket under its growth ambitions. The deal with Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation II, a special purpose acquisition company, will allow Brisbane-based Tritium ...

Americas Skunk Works: The Innovators That Made Stealth Technology Possible Its origins show how American and immigrant know-how helped the United States beat the Nazis and how high-tech inventions could help win the Cold War. Heres What You Need To Remember: The Skunk Works and its founders innovation-focused approach made an invaluable contribution to an understanding in sectors ranging well beyond military aviation that groundbreaking achievements sometimes require allowing a small team ...

Though Kelly’s earlier projects certainly experienced growing pains, the F-35 has proven slower and rockier than its predecessors.

Skunkworks: The Super Secret Program That Built Americas Stealth Fighters As jet fighters grow more expensive and vastly more complex, the innovative high-speed project management methods used by the Skunk Works may prove harder to sustain. Heres What You Need to Remember: Today, the Skunk Works appears to be working on another unconventional project to build a (likely unmanned) hypersonic spy/bomber jet unofficially dubbed the SR-72. It has also developed numerous spy drones that remained vei...

This special unit gave birth to the F-117, F-22, and F-35.