Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Russia’s TsAGI aerohydrodynamic research institute is studying superconducting motors as a way of improving the performance of electric and hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

BOEING has $92.5m U.S. Army contract for engineering, analysis and support for AH-64 Apache, A/MH-6M Little Bird, H-47 Chinook.

The Japan Self Defense Force and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have verified the ability of the newest version of ballistic missile defense (BMD) on a recently upgraded Japanese destroyer in the Pacific Ocean.

View the Fleet Snapshot: Russian Air Force Manned C4ISR Aircraft chart in PDF format.

This is XTI’s third campaign on Startengine.com to help finance a full-scale prototype of its TriFan 600 ducted-fan vertical-takeoff-and-landing business aircraft.

The U.S. government has blacklisted the head of China’s military arms procurement organization and the agency itself for buying Russian Su-35 fighters and air defense systems.

Software development companies in separate announcements on Sept. 20 described products designed to detect and track drone swarms and to monitor areas near airports to help prevent against bird strikes.

The Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm was the last operator of the Sea King, flying the Mk. 7 version. Two of the helicopters made a farewell flight from their home base at RNAS Culdrose Cornwall on Sept. 19.

The air forces of Germany and the UK have signed agreements which will see their Eurofighter communities working more closely.

NASA’s New Horizons team is planning the most distant planetary object flyby ever on Jan. 1, 2019.

“You have to be able to go to space more frequently with less lead time,” Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos says.

Deployment of the two Minerva landers was scheduled for Sept. 21 between midnight and 12:30 a.m. EDT.

The more the U.S. Navy adopts multi-domain operations for unmanned platforms from a carrier, the more the service is going to need greater connectivity across the force, says Sean Stackley, L3 Technologies corporate senior vice president.

Leonardo and South Africa’s Paramount Group are to study a potential armed version of Leonardo’s M345 jet trainer for the African market.

AEROKOOL AVIATION CORP. has $8.2m U.S. Navy contract for repair of F/A-18 turbines.

During a presentation at the Air Force Association’s annual symposium, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell struck an atypically militaristic tone for the leader of a commercial space company.

The latest Skunk Works concept is likened to Lockheed’s losing proposal for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 tanker program, but with some major differences.

U.S. Air Force is pondering further upgrades for the Boeing B-52H fleet, including a concept that reduces the crew to four positions and eliminates the below-deck workstations.

The U.S. Air Force is planning to use what are essentially government credit cards to work with small businesses.

Air launch space company Stratolaunch Systems has unveiled study plans for a pair of hypersonic flying testbeds that could be launched from the company’s very large carrier aircraft.

Japan has scheduled the fourth attempt to launch its latest cargo mission to the International Space Station for Sept. 21 at 2:15 p.m. EDT.

Startup Astro Aerospace plans to flight-test its prototype passenger-carrying unmanned aircraft at Toronto Markham Airport this week, after receiving a special flight operations certificate for the vehicle from Transport Canada.

The Air Force anticipates delivery of light attack aircraft within roughly 18 months of contract award.

Britain’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory has been testing unmanned air and ground vehicles that can sniff out chemical contamination.

Lockheed's Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared System will make up the first block of the missile warning constellation that will replace the current Space-based Infrared System.