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Aviation Week & Space Technology, Aug. 25, 2025

VOL. 187 NO. 33 August 25, 2025
SNC Navy Trainer

SNC is entering the race to win the U.S. Navy's future jet trainer program to replace the aging T-45, offering its clean-sheet design Freedom jet that it says will come with lower flight-hour costs.  

Credit: SNC artist's rendering

DEFENSE

Sierra Freedom concept rendering
article

New Competitor Looks To Upend U.S. Navy Trainer Competition

Aug 22, 2025
SNC’s Freedom proposal looks to revive a carrier-representative landing practice requirement for the T-45 replacement.
EOS laser demonstration
article

Laser Weapons Earn Their Combat Credentials

Aug 21, 2025
With their promise of deep magazines and relatively low cost per shot, laser weapons are becoming a battlefield reality.
Lockheed Martin F-35 in flight
article

F-35 Procurements Face Setbacks In Spain And Switzerland

Aug 19, 2025
F-35 purchases by European countries are back in the spotlight as Spain scraps procurement plans and Switzerland wrestles with a $1.6 billion cost surge.
Mil Mi-24 helicopter
article

Russia’s Seemingly Dormant Attack Helicopter Gains New Lift

Aug 22, 2025
Far from ending Russia’s interest in attack helicopters, the Ukraine War has taught Moscow that it needs them with more speed and range.
LUS-222 concept
article

Portugal’s First Indigenous Aircraft Buoyed By Air Force Involvement

Aug 19, 2025
The homegrown LUS-222 is intended to lift Portugal into the global aircraft market.

MILITARY SPACE

Vulcan rocket launching on USSF-106
article

Vulcan Launch Vehicle Joins U.S. National Security Space Launch Fleet

Aug 20, 2025
U.S. launch diversity returns with the United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket’s first Space Force flight.

MANUFACTURING

Employee looking over paper instructions
article

Boeing Is Modernizing And Simplifying Production Process Instructions

Aug 22, 2025
Boeing is overhauling many of the foundational documents that factory floor workers and management alike rely on every day.

COMMERCIAL AVIATION

Qantas aircraft taking off
article

Australasia’s Narrowbody Fleet Renewal Gains Momentum

Aug 20, 2025
Airlines in the region are focused on narrowbody deliveries this year, but more widebodies are coming in 2026.
Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3
article

Frankfurt Airport Is On Track To Open Third Terminal In 2026

Aug 21, 2025
Lufthansa and Fraport have repeatedly clashed over Frankfurt Airport operations, but the nearing arrival of Terminal 3 will open up new space for the airline.

TECHNOLOGY

Truck-based propulsion rig
article

The Week In Technology, Aug. 11-15, 2025

Aug 12, 2025
Beta’s motors coup; VerdoGo advances hybrid; medical drones deliver in Belgium; charging electric trainer fleets.

COLUMNS AND OPINION

business deal signing ceremony at the Royal Palace in Doha
article

Opinion: The Unwelcome Return Of Politicized Jetliner Sales

Aug 19, 2025
Increased government involvement in airliner sales will shape the industry in three ways—none of them good.
Startup Katalyst Space has won a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract worth $30 million from NASA to attempt to save a space telescope from re-entering the atmosphere.
article

SpaceOps: NASA Mulls SmallSat Reboost Mission For Swift Telescope

Aug 20, 2025
Without intervention, NASA predicts Swift will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in late 2026.
Tom Hanks and James Lovell
article

Tom Hanks Recalls Night-Flying With Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell

Aug 21, 2025
Tom Hanks relays a memorable night flight with Lovell during preparations to bring the Apollo 13 story to film.