The administration of US President Joe Biden has requested that the Congress allocate funding of $24.5-billion to the US Space Force (USSF) as part of the administration’s 2023 financial year... 

Research charity the Hans Merensky Foundation (HMF) president (and former University of the Free State [UFS] chancellor) Dr Khotso Mokhele recently signed an R11-million five-year research grant... 

French aerospace group Dassault Aviation has announced yet another order for its Rafale multirole (the company likes to describe it as ‘omnirole’) fighter. This contract is a repeat order from... 

Airbus Defence and Space, a division of the Europe-based global major aerospace group Airbus, announced on Friday that it had selected Italian company Avio Aero to supply its Catalyst engines and... 

South African aerospace and defence company Paramount Group has received orders from five sovereign nations for its Mbombe 4 infantry combat vehicle (ICV) in the three years since its launch at the... 

The UASA trade union has expressed disappointment that the Labour Court, in a ruling handed down on Wednesday, had effectively given financially-beleaguered State-owned defence industrial group... 

Johannesburg-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operator and developer UAV & Drone Solutions (UDS) proposes that government departments and State-owned entities (SOEs) use, to a far greater... 

Professional society the African Astronomical Society (AfAS) will host its second yearly scientific conference and general assembly in Cape Town, on March 14, with the aim of intensifying the... 

The Solidarity trade union announced on Wednesday that it had submitted warrants of execution, worth some R90-million, against State-owned defence industrial group Denel, to the sheriff of the... 

Brazil-based major aerospace group Embraer has announced that it is entering the jet air freighter market, by offering passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversions of its E190 and E195 airliners,... 

Local armoured products specialist manufacturer SVI Engineering has expanded into Saudi Arabia and plans to develop and manufacture a variety of armoured vehicles and military solutions in the... 

Renowned French aerospace group Dassault Aviation released its performance and financial results for 2021 on Friday. It reported a consolidated net income of €605-million last year, an almost... 

Airbus Helicopters, the rotary-wing business of Europe-based global major aerospace and defence group Airbus, announced on Wednesday that France and Spain had awarded it a major upgrade contract... 

UK-based global major aerospace and defence group BAE Systems has reported that it successfully executed a flight test of ‘Manned Unmanned Teaming’ (MUM-T) technology, in partnership with the US... 

Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering (KPE) – a joint venture between global aerospace and technology business Paramount Group and Kazakhstani defence and engineering company Kazpetromash – has... 

An international team of astronomers has made available detailed images of what is known to be the largest visible cosmic shock wave from Earth. The team comprises of experts from Italy-based... 

UK-based global major propulsion and power systems group Rolls-Royce, which is particularly renowned for its aeroengines, will no longer buy titanium from Russia, group CEO Warren East told the... 

Military communication systems specialist and JSE-listed company Reunert subsidiary Reutech Communications’ TR3000 transceiver unlocks the full potential of high-frequency (HF) network... 

Global aerospace and technology company Paramount Group’s equipment and technologies, in service with various armed forces and security agencies on four continents, as well as digital and... 

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has reiterated his commitment to clamp down on State-owned entities (SOEs) that are draining the fiscus with bailouts. Delivering his Budget 2022 speech on... 

Two global major commercial aerospace groups, airframer Airbus and aeroengine company CFM International (a 50:50 joint venture between GE of the US and Safran of France), have announced the launch... 

The Solidarity Trade Union has announced that it will pursue criminal charges against those responsible for theft and mismanagement at the country’s State-owned entities (SOEs). It did so in a... 

Brazilian major aerospace group Embraer has announced that it delivered 141 commercial and business (or executive) jets last year. Of these, 55 were delivered during the fourth quarter. The company... 

Europe-based global major aerospace and defence group Airbus released its full-year results for 2021 on Thursday. It achieved a record net income of €4.2-billion during the year. Revenues totalled... 

Brazilian major aerospace group Embraer, leading British propulsion and power systems group Rolls-Royce and Norwegian aviation group Widderøe have announced that they are to jointly study a concept... 

UK power and propulsion technologies group Rolls-Royce and Italian aircraft manufacturer Tecnam, in conjunction with Austrian leisure and sports craft propulsion systems company BRP-Rotax,... 

Vehicle propulsion systems manufacturer Rolls-Royce and luxury jet and helicopter service provider Luxaviation Group have agreed, through a memorandum of understanding (MoU), to collaborate on... 

The South East Asian archipelagic Republic of Indonesia has ordered 42 Dassault Rafale fighters, it was announced at the contract signing ceremony in the country’s capital of Jakarta, on Thursday.... 

Brazil-based major aerospace and defence group Embraer has announced that it has reached agreement with the Brazilian Air Force (abbreviated to FAB in Portuguese) over the restructuring of the...