In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Jan. 24 2023

January 25, 2023

Ariane 6 Testing Now Well Underway

Credit: European Space Agency

Ariane 6 concept

Space Force Acquisition Chief Takes Aim At Troubled Programs

Credit: Lockheed Martin. It is time to complete space programs that have been long-standing thorns in the side of the U.S. military, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisitions says.

DOD Not Confirming Ukraine Claim That Aircraft Donation Is Decided

Credit: U.S. Air Force

F-16

Canadian F-35 Order Targeted By Parliamentary Audit

Credit: USAF

F-35A 

MightyFly Unveils Second-Generation Uncrewed Cargo VTOL

Credit: MightyFly. MightyFly has unveiled its second-generation uncrewed cargo aircraft, the Cento.

NASA, DARPA To Pursue 2027 Space Nuclear Propulsion Demo

Credit: NASA. NASA and DARPA will collaborate to develop and demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in Earth orbit as soon as 2027, the agencies say.

U.S. Navy Survey Focuses T-45 Replacement On Land-Based Trainer

Credit: U.S. Navy. A new market survey released by the U.S. Navy focuses on replacing the Boeing/BAE Systems T-45 Goshawk with a land-based advanced jet trainer, leveraging gains in software-assisted flight control to potentially delete a requirement for carrier landings prior to graduation for student pilots.

Lockheed Conducts First Flight Of South Carolina-Built F-16

Credit: Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin has flown the first F-16 Block 70 fighter built at the nearly four-year-old assembly line in Greenville, South Carolina, company executives said on Jan. 24.

Sikorsky Delivers 5,000th Black Hawk

Credit: Sikorsky. Sikorsky has delivered its 5,000th Black Hawk helicopter, almost 50 years since the rotorcraft’s first flight.

Provisional MH-139 Squadron Set To Activate In February

The U.S. Air Force will stand up a provisional helicopter squadron in Montana to focus on preparing flight crews and maintainers for the future Boeing/Leonardo MH-139 Gray Wolf helicopter, a service official said on Jan. 24. 

Small Company Passes First Hardware Test For Uncrewed Fighter

Credit: Blue Force Technologies. An uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) designed in a digital environment by a small, North Carolina-based company to perform as a fighter for adversary training and combat missions has passed the program’s first major hardware test. 

DIU Opens New Track For Hypersonic Subsystems Testing

Credit: Lockheed Martin. A new call for proposals will seek to draw complementary technologies to a “modular payload capability” for a hypersonic vehicle testbed, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) said Jan. 23. 

Ariane 6 testing now well underway and Canadian F-35 order targeted by parliamentary audit. Take a look at these and more in our daily roundup of aerospace & defense news.

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