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Further to our report last week, the US Air Force is still many years away from fielding a hypersonic weapon system capable of delivering a warhead into denied airspace.

Following the release of a critical review of the P-8A from the US Defense Department's top weapons tester last week, Boeing, Navy and Pentagon officials have come out in support of the program.

QinetiQ has carried out a fatigue and fracture mechanics assessment of NATO's submarine rescue vehicle.

Israel Aerospace Industries has unveiled its new Unmanned Surface Vessel combat marine system - KATANA.

Rheinmetall Nitrochemie and the French defence group Nexter have entered a long-term supply agreement for ammunition components.

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NASA will conduct a series of missions in Australian airspace over the next six weeks, using a Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk HALE air vehicle

In his recent posting on hypersonic anti-ship missiles in the Strategist, ASPI's Andrew Davies notes that there are two main appeals of a very high speed weapon.

Reports that Lockheed Martin Mission Systems is engineering an export oriented 'core Aegis' component cluster more readily integrated with third-party CMS and sensors could be good news for radar specialist CEA Technologies.

The US Navy has accepted three General Dynamics C4 Systems-built ground stations for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).

Austal has recently celebrated the keel-laying ceremony for the fifth vessel of eight patrol boats that Austal is designing, building and supporting for the ACBPS.

ASPI has once again been rated as a world class Institute in the University of Pennsylvania's 2013 Global Go-To Think Tank Index.

While the death knell continued to sound last week for the US Army's Land 400 lookalike, the Ground Combat Vehicle, the Army quietly released a notice to industry requesting information about a new, air-droppable ULCV.

News that the Philippine Army is planning to purchase up to 14 M113 APCs to help enhance its fire support capabilities in 2015, suggests an opportunity for this country to provide defence equipment to a regional neighbour, still reeling from a massive natural disaster and the ongoing impact of insurgency.