Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Overall, sales rose 5% year-on-year to $8 billion, earnings per share climbed to $2.34 and the company’s backlog reached a record $34 billion.

South Korea's Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and Hanwha have revealed their new supersonic air-to-ground missile.

The Indian government has approved plans for a space investment fund, saying it has earmarked INR10 billion ($118 million) to the effort on a multiyear basis.

NASA's Crew-8 astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeannette Epps and their Russian cosmonaut colleague Alexander Grebenkin splashed down safely.

Safran expects to sell its share in the Roxel missile motor joint venture to MBDA before the year's end.

The Operational Control System program, known as OCX, was established in 2010.

Bulgaria becomes the third air force to clear a first flight event for Lockheed F-16 Block 70s, following Bahrain and Slovakia.

The U.S. Air Force’s top commander has refuted the Lockheed Martin CEO’s characterization of the first batch of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA).

The two companies will develop advanced technologies together and work to accelerate L3Harris’s “digital transformation,” L3Harris said on Oct. 23.

Spirit AeroSystems is racing to finish its sale to Airbus and Boeing or find enough bridge financing and cost cuts before otherwise running out of money.

The interceptor needs to be an autonomous aircraft launched from an air vehicle with a “hard kill system” effective against the small drones.

The analysis was released by NASA on Oct. 24.

The organization sits under the U.S. Space Force and is fielding hundreds of satellites under the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

Finland is preparing for the SEAD/DEAD mission by acquiring Northrop Grumman’s Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile–Extended Range (AARGM-ER).

Turkish industry is investing in the development of self-protection systems destined for use on the country’s growing fleet of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS).

The European Space Agency (ESA) is considering changes in its payment structure to ease the financial burden European space companies have been experiencing.

JISS is calling for Japan's Defense Ministry and the Japan Self-Defense Forces to develop its own tactical surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking satellites.

U.S. refusal to sell the F-35 to Taiwan, and the subsequent failure of the country’s indigenous Advanced Defense Fighter, has reshaped Taipei’s thinking in the face of continued Chinese encroachment.

Boeing employees represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) voted down the latest contract offer.

The Enhanced Polar Satcom-Recapitalization (EPS-R) satellites were built by Northrop Grumman and launched Aug. 11.

Splashdown and recovery in the ocean waters off the Florida peninsula is expected no earlier than Oct. 25 at about 3:29 a.m. EDT.

In mid-October, the S500 BAT clocked its highest operating altitude yet, rising to 500 m (1,640 ft.) above ground.

The feasibility review for the Light Transport Aircraft Project follows the completion of a survey sent out to the aviation market.

A UAE Armed Forces-owned TB2 released Edge’s Desert Sting in a test earlier this year.

The Space Force in 2021 selected Millennium and Raytheon, an RTX company, for the Epoch 1 program.