In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Aug. 02 2022

Credit: USAF.

The U.S. Air Force is planning the next phase of input quill assembly (IQA) replacements on its fleet of CV-22 Ospreys after finishing a first round, as all of the tiltrotor operators continue to look for a root cause of the gearbox problem affecting the fleet.

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The world’s first multi-sovereign venture capital fund, led by NATO, closed €1 billion ($1.09 billion) in funding for defense startups on Aug. 1.

Credit: Orbital Reef.

Test samples of material that is to form “king-sized bed” windows on the Orbital Reef commercial space station were launched to the International Space Station onboard the Northrop Grumman Antares rocket on Aug. 1. 

Credit: DJI.

The Chinese government will expand export controls for small drones and counter-drone technologies that are increasingly being used in the Ukrainian-Russian war and other conflicts. 

Credit: U.S. Air Force.

The U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy have set up a new joint pathway aimed at bringing on nontraditional suppliers to try to grow the propulsion industrial base, which has largely been limited to major heavyweights. 

Credit: Collins Aerospace.

RAF FAIRFORD, England–RTX business Collins Aerospace has announced that integration of its MS-110 sensor onto the F-16 aircraft has been completed.

Credit: President of Zimbabwe.

Russia’s Mil Mi-38 heavy twin utility helicopter has its first export customer.