Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Ukrainian Air Force personnel say they are moving to different forward operating bases several times a week to avoid being destroyed by Russian air attacks.

Safran is teaming with India’s Bharat Electronics to produce Hammer modular air-to-surface bomb kits in India.

Turkey’s Aselsan and Roketsan have jointly received $6.5 billion in contracts to develop a Steel Dome air defense system for the country.

Turkish authorities have arrested three people for allegedly spying on the country’s defense industry on behalf of UAE intelligence agencies.

The funds will support programs including the domestically developed T-Dome air defense missile system and various uncrewed platforms.

The U.S. Air Force on Nov. 25 awarded Boeing a $2.47 billion contract for 15 KC-46A tankers, extending production into the later years of the program.

Sweden has awarded GKN Aerospace a contract to build a clean-sheet turbojet-powered uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) demonstrator within 18 months to validate rapid development techniques.

The European Space Agency is seeking around $4.5 billion from its member states to support its space transportation program covering the 2026-29 period.

ESA will keep the window open for member states to sign on to a new security-focused Earth-observation program for a year.

Germany is about to start fielding the Israeli Arrow missile defense system to give the country its first exoatmospheric ballistic threat intercept capability.

The city of Daegu, South Korea, is in the final stages of completing the master plan and basic design for a new civil-military airport.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded the first batch of prototype contracts for the space-based interceptors (SBI) element of the Golden Dome, but details are scarce.

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is calling on the Pentagon to increase UAV collaboration with Ukraine.

The U.S. Navy has picked up some of the U.S. Air Force’s T-38 repair work as the service faces a large backlog of Talon IIs requiring work.

Japan has big ambitions for its space industry. But before the country can realize those dreams, it needs rides to space to test its technologies.

The UK’s aviation weather forecaster is launching a new volcanic ash forecasting method to be made available for free to all airlines and the aviation industry.

Private Chinese company Sichuan Lingkong Tianxing Technology on Nov. 25 unveiled its Yu Kong Ji (YKJ)-1000 hypersonic missile.

Sweden is strengthening its short-range air defense capability by purchasing additional mobile surface-to-air missile systems.

The Netherlands is looking to add up to $4 billion to its counter-drone investment plan in response to a number of sightings of unidentified UAS in Europe.

Israel’s Defense Ministry is calling for a boost in defense exports with an eye on bolstering the introduction of new technologies.

When ESA meets in Bremen this week for its annual ministerial, decisions about government support for sovereign launch activities will draw intense interest.

China has launched the Shenzhou-22 capsule to the Tiangong space station as part of a recovery mission after an earlier spacecraft was damaged by space debris.

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.

News in brief.

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