Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Robert Wall
Diehl’s IRIS-T SLM land-based air and missile defense system, which has been heavily used in Ukraine, has exercised its sea legs.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Aviation Week Staff
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JET.AI, FLYEXCLUSIVE extend merger deadline... SAFRAN introduces new GPS-denied nav system... PRATT’s PT6 E-Series reaches flying hour milestone...
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By Ben Goldstein
Chinese hybrid eVTOL startup XPeng AeroHT has rebranded itself to Aridge, while also announcing scores of new orders from customers in the Middle East.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Joe Anselmo
“This year is a record in terms of investment in technologies,” Embraer President and CEO Francisco Gomes Neto says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Three F-35s arrived at the Florennes Air Base on Oct. 13, marking the type’s official incorporation into the Belgian Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters is to absorb the fixed-wing uncrewed air system programs of Airbus-owned Survey Copter into its portfolio.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
As Tom Mueller, founder and CEO of Impulse Space, sees it, the market for transporting cargo to the Moon has a missing middle.
Space Exploration

By Tony Osborne
Sweden’s defense materiel agency FMV has contracted Saab for an expansion of its ongoing multi-phase study work into future combat aircraft development.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Cummings Aerospace has announced a 60-km range estimate for the 3D-printed Hellhound S3, a turbojet-powered, subsonic loitering munition and air interceptor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The companies producing the highly in-demand Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhanced interceptor are continuing to bulk up their production capacity.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Two companies have unveiled starkly different approaches to meeting the U.S. Army’s pending requirement for a Low-Altitude Stalk and Strike Ordnance system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Data Arianespace collected on the Ariane 6 is evidence of the level of its engineering, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA) said Oct. 14.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army will start executing within a month a fielding plan for acquiring and delivering Launched Effects-Short Range air vehicles.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Ukraine’s ability to take down Russian drones is largely limited by the availability of systems to engage them, rather than the technology to do so, a senior U.S. Army air defense official says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Spanish startup PLD Space says it is completing critical design reviews of its Miura 5 launcher as it works toward a somewhat delayed first flight next year.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
The U.S. Army expects to begin testing the second iteration of the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile soon to get a production go-ahead soon after.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
A year after the U.S. Army appeared to turn its back on a program to develop a future lower-tier missile interceptor, the program may be back on the agenda.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX’s 11th Starship-Super Heavy launch system completed a 65-min. suborbital flight test Oct. 13.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

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New UK National Armaments Director... CURTISS-WRIGHT providing encrypted black box systems for MV-75... TRIDENT MARITIME SYSTEMS divests UK business...
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By Garrett Reim
Pyka has unveiled a new, in-development UAV, the DropShip, that is focused on flying military logistics missions, including parachute dropping cargo.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin has unveiled its once-secret concept for the proposed, extended-range variant of the Precision Strike Missile, which is known as Increment 4.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
iRocket reports a successful flight test of the company’s 2.75-in. IRX-100 version of the Hydra 70 rocket system.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
China’s EHang has lifted the curtain on its VT35, a long-range, autonomous eVTOL intended for intercity flying.
Advanced Air Mobility