Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

A memo by Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adam. Bill Moran obtained by Aviation Week directs the commander of the Pacific Fleet to lead an review into recent hypoxia events in U.S. Navy T-45s and F/A-18s.

BAE SYSTEMS has £1.4b ($1.8b) contract for Royal Navy Astute class submarine Agamemnon, for protecting UK carriers and nuclear deterrent.

Congressional Republicans are preparing bills once again to try to shoot down commercial aircraft deals by Boeing, Airbus and ATR with Iranian airlines.

The U.S. Navy has further restricted flying in the Boeing T-45C Goshawk after one instructor pilot reported headaches after performing dynamic flying in the troubled tandem-seat trainer.

The UK defense ministry has signed a £41 million ($52.36 million) contract that will pave the way for the integration of the MBDA Meteor beyond visual-range air-to-air missile onto the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

The Norwegian government is urging the country’s Parliament to green light Oslo’s membership in the Dutch-led Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Fleet.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has demonstrated a reusable hydrazine monopropellant thruster it prepared for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule.

With dozens of programs springing up to defeat UAV threats, Darpa is trying to nurture revolutionary future counter-UAV technologies.

Liteye Systems and Orbital ATK are pairing their technologies to turn the Boeing AH-64 Apache’s 30-mm chaingun against unfriendly UAVs.

Scientists have been asked to come up with suggestions on what type of satellite and rocket will be required for a Venus probe.

RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS delivered first civil Mi-171E helicopter in VIP configuration to Pakistan April 19.

BAE Systems and DRS have agreed to work together on an upgraded version of BAE’s Common Missile Warning System for U.S. Army fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force says it still hopes to kick off a multibillion-dollar Bell UH-1N Huey replacement competition this summer and decide a winner in 2018.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-04 crew transport sprinted to the International Space Station early April 20.

An online survey by University of Michigan researchers suggests most people in the U.S. would use them if they become operational.

A deadly Lockheed Martin TU-2S crash during a pilot evaluation flight last year has been blamed on pilot error.

The USAF wants to turn the KC-135 into an airborne gateway, translating data between different networks so operators on the ground and in the sky can talk to each other.

Textron Aviation plans to fly a third production-conforming Scorpion light attack/reconnaissance aircraft ahead of the U.S. Air Force’s planned flight experiments to assess potential off-the-shelf candidates for the proposed OA-X requirement.

Mississippi State University has been selected to operate a small UAV demonstration range for the U.S. Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate.

A phased rollout of services to enable safe, efficient and secure access to European airspace for large numbers of UAVs is articulated in a blueprint drafted by the Sesar joint undertaking.

Chinese engineers declared the launch of their nation’s first space freighter a success on April 20.

EDO CORP. DEFENSE SYSTEMS has $29.5m U.S. Navy contract for 300 BRU-55A/A aircraft bomb ejector racks through April 2020.

Netherlands aerospace laboratory NLR has launched the Trawa project to establish standards for unmanned aircraft detect-and-avoid (DAA) systems.

View the Boeing F-15C Spec Showcase chart in PDF format.

The Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant will not fly in 2017 as previously planned, with the milestone shifting into “early 2018,” company program officials say.