Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Planet Labs has expanded its partnership with satellite image analytics firm SynMax to sell AI-powered vessel monitoring and classification software.

Armor Harris, the newly hired vice president of Aircraft Engineering for San Diego-based Shield AI, wants to lead a new revolution in aircraft design.

Croatia and Greece have signed contracts to purchase de Havilland Canada DHC-515 amphibious aircraft to modernize their aerial firefighting fleets.

AeroHT is developing the Land-based Aircraft Carrier, an all-electric, five-passenger off-road SUV that carries a two-passenger multirotor eVTOL in its trunk.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 crew transport successfully docked with the International Space Station on March 25.

The British Army Air Corps has marked the impending retirement of its locally assembled Apache attack helicopters with a flypast around the UK.

Leadership changes at Boeing have Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal out effective immediately, while both CEO Dave Calhoun and chair Larry Kellner revealed their departure dates.

Airbus Defense and Space announced March 25 that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Cologne-based cyber security outfit Infodas.

Hybrid Air Vehicles wants to build production, testing and certification facilities that would be able to produce up to 24 airships a year.

South Korea will spend close to $6 billion on 40 KF-21s and related infrastructure and armaments through 2028.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 is carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight tourist Marina Vasilevskaya.

The Cargo Dragon freighter is to remain docked for about five weeks before departing for a return to Earth with time-sensitive research.

The CarryAll is the first version of AutoFlight’s planned Prosperity family of 2,000-kg gross weight eVTOL uncrewed cargo and piloted passenger aircraft.

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada is reviewing the potential market for a modernized version of the Short Sherpa twin-turboprop cargo aircraft, last produced in 1990.

Lockheed Martin Ventures led a group of 14 investors that raised a $12.5 million seed round investment in Firestorm Labs.

The U.S. government says it welcomes a decision this week by a new Argentinian government to acquire an undisclosed number of used F-16s from Denmark.

The Indian Space Research Organization’s Pushpak reusable spaceplane autonomously landed on a runway.

The FAA has released proposed special conditions for type certification of electric engines developed by Beta Technologies and Safran.

Boom Supersonic has flown XB-1 demonstrator, the world’s first privately developed faster-than-sound civil aircraft.

The UK Royal Air Force is seeking a new provider of red-air aggressor services for its combat air fleets.

British intelligence officials are suggesting Moscow could be facing fleet availability issues.

Sweden has awarded contracts to Saab and GKN Aerospace to begin studies into future combat aircraft and propulsion development.

Leonardo is looking to further sweeten its AW159 Wildcat offering to the New Zealand Defense Force, by promising to set up a support center at Whenuapai AB.

Adm. John C. Aquilino, leader of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, warns of China’s rapid military buildup and its ability to strike beyond the first island chain.

Development of a new Chinese heavy attack helicopter in the 10-ton class appears to be well underway, as evidenced by photographs that have surfaced online.