Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Graham Warwick
Israel’s Urban Aeronautics is talking to potential partners and investors about developing a four-seat “flying car.”
Defense

By Graham Warwick
NASA is seeking input on the technical barriers to greater use of larger vertical-takeoff-and-landing UAVs for civil missions.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
German startup E-volo has unveiled the Volocopter 2X production version of its two-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) air taxi.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
The technology can be used to protect the leading edges of wings; horizontal and vertical stabilizers; engine inlet lips; and vanes and aircraft nose cones and is suitable for commercial; regional; business aircraft; rotorcraft; and unmanned aircraft.

The aircraft will conduct training with other Europe-based U.S. and NATO aircraft for the next few weeks as part of the European Reassurance Initiative.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Step by step, Silicon Valley-based Made In Space, Inc., is making good on its name, literally forging an off-the-planet manufacturing capability.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Keeping warships for only 20 years rather than the usual 30 may be an economical policy, Australian researchers have found.
Defense

DRS LAUREL TECHNOLOGIES has $8.8m U.S. Navy contract for Cooperative Engagement Capability transmission processing equipment sets.

The UK House of Commons’ defense committee has launched an inquiry into the Royal Air Force’s response to the country’s 2015 Strategic Defense and Security Review (SDSR).

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EUROFIGHTER delivered 500th production Typhoon to the Italian Air Force April 11 at Leonardo Aircraft Division’s Turin site.

Within the next decade, Rostec plans to modernize Russia’s tactical weapons systems.

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By Tony Osborne
The UK defense ministry is challenging industry and academia to develop unmanned systems that can supply troops on the front-line.
Defense

A U.S. Special Operations MC-130 dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. has ever deployed on Islamic State terrorists in a series of caves in Afghanistan.
Defense

The Pentagon’s Tomahawk strike on Syria may have struck 57 out of 59 confirmed targets, but a top U.S. general says the U.S. can and must do better.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
In Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, a funding drive is underway to restore the aging landmark Apollo Mission Control Center for enhanced public viewing.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
With the delivery by Leonardo of the 500th Eurofighter Typhoon to the Italian Air Force, production of the multinational combat aircraft is now entering its twilight years.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters and Romanian aerospace firm Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR) have signed an exclusivity agreement on local sales of the H215M.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
Lobbying group Gifas is concerned that a notable proportion of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the French aerospace industry are posting losses.
Defense

India is looking to aggressively market its homemade Tejas light combat aircraft and the upgraded Advanced Hawk trainers it builds with BAE Systems to international buyers.
Defense

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $69.6m U.S. Navy contract for development, integration, and production of the Navy’s AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 surface ship undersea warfare systems.

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Director Betty Sapp is getting asked by members of Congress more and more frequently what the space spy agency needs to move faster.

Bell Helicopter’s FC-X mockup concept demonstrator is proving to be more than just a talking point.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
German startup E-volo has unveiled the Volocopter 2X production version of its two-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) air taxi.
Defense