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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, April 15, 2022

VOL. 280 NO. 11 April 15, 2022
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Funding & Policy

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How U.S. Air Force Is Evolving Its Tanker Plans

Apr 14, 2022
As the service looks to cut KC-10s and KC-135s, it is expressing more confidence in the KC-46 despite continued deficiencies in its development.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

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Russian State Media Says Navy Flagship Sunk

Apr 14, 2022
Russia's TASS news agency report ends a day of speculation about the status of 12,490-ton vessel. 

Programs

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Leak Halts Third Attempt To Fuel SLS

Apr 14, 2022
A hydrogen leak halted NASA’s third attempt to fuel the first Space Launch System rocket at the launchpad on April 14.
AASM
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Talks Underway To Assemble Rafale’s AASM In Indonesia

Apr 14, 2022
Indonesian defense prime PT Pindad and Safran are discussing potential local assembly of the AASM air-to-ground modular weapon that will equip the Southeast Asian country’s future Dassault Rafale fleet.
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Poland Accelerates Narew Air Defense Procurement

Apr 14, 2022
Poland has accelerated its Narew short-range air defense program, with the aim of introducing the first elements into service this year.
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USAF’s HH-60W Cut Comes As Service Studies Future Of CSAR

Apr 14, 2022
The U.S. Air Force’s surprise plan to cut to its buy of Sikorsky HH-60W helicopters comes as the service is conducting an internal, wargames-based review of what the future of the combat search and rescue mission will become.

Funding & Policy

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Lilium Takes Next Step Toward eVTOL Certification

Apr 12, 2022
Germany’s Lilium has taken another step in the type certification process for its electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi, submitting its means of compliance to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency.
Stockholm
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Finland Could Decide On NATO Membership Within Weeks, Prime Minister Says

Apr 14, 2022
Speaking alongside Sweden’s Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, in Stockholm on April 13, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin told journalists that “everything had changed after Russia’s invasion [of Ukraine].” 

Operations

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Russia To Send First Belarusian Citizen To Space

Apr 14, 2022
Russia has agreed to send a Belarusian citizen to space, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko announced after a meeting with Russia President Vladimir Putin at Vostochny Cosmodrome on April 12.

Technology

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Lockheed Laser Shoots Down Aerial Targets For U.S. Navy Demo

Apr 14, 2022
A Lockheed Martin-designed, all-electric laser shot down multiple aerial targets during February tests at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, the…
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Lithium-Sulfur Crystal Battery Startup Targets eVTOL

Apr 11, 2022
German startup Theion is targeting electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft as an early market for solid-state, lithium-sulfur batteries that promise three times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion cells.

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