Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Tony Osborne, Steve Trimble
Turkey has taken delivery of the first components of an S-400 ground-based air defense system from Russia in a move that risks seriously impacting its relationship with the U.S. and NATO allies.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters is streamlining and shuffling its top-level management.

By Marhalim Abas, Bradley Perrett
Philippines Air Force (PAF) Chief Air Lt. Gen. Rozzano Briguez said the aircraft should be received in 2020, but the manufacturer would not confirm when asked by Aerospace DAILY.
Defense

View the Aviation Week Forecasts: Western Maritime Helicopter Deliveries/Retirements 2019-2028 chart in PDF format.

Launch of the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) 5 satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral has been delayed from its July 17 target.

CROATIA formed inter-ministerial committee for the procurement of multirole combat aircraft July 4, kicking off acquisition process.

By Steve Trimble
Boeing has selected a Raytheon radar to complete the supplier selection for the first of two major upgrades planned for the U.S. Air Force fleet of the nearly 60-year-old B-52H bombers.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Qatar has become the first announced customer for the Raytheon Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile Extended Range (AMRAAM-ER), a surface-to-air missile.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force plans to start testing autonomy algorithms and artificial intelligence on a flying aircraft this summer, a spokeswoman confirmed on July 11.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A university research program has developed an automatic landing system that does away with the need for ground-based instrument (ILS), microwave (MLS) or satellite-based landing systems.

By Irene Klotz
Longtime NASA Associate Administrator Bill Gerstenmaier has been replaced by Deputy Associate Administrator Ken Bowersox, an ex-astronaut.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Portugal looks to become the first export customer for the Embraer KC-390 after the government approved the purchase of five of the airlifters for €827 million ($930.5 million).
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s Rheinland Air Service (RAS) has delivered a second heavily modified ATR-72 regional turboprop to the Pakistan Navy for maritime patrol duties.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
“Approximately two minutes after liftoff, shortly after ignition of the Zefiro 23 second stage, a launcher anomaly occurred, leading to the premature end of the mission,” according to Arianespace, the launch operator.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Ryugu late July 10 for a second time within five months to obtain samples of the primitive Solar System body for return to Earth.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
The final, unpowered flight test of Virgin Orbit's two-stage, liquid-fueled LauncherOne expendable rocket clears the way for a trial run to space possibly by late summer.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Israeli startup Airobotics, a provider of fully automated drones for industrial tasks such as inspection and security, has unveiled its first sensor payload to be developed and manufactured in-house.

By Steve Trimble
Applying sanctions on Turkey remains an option if the Russian S-400 air defense system is delivered, a State Department official said on July 10.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett, Tony Osborne
Australia is sticking by a plan to replace its 22 Airbus Tiger ARH attack helicopters in the mid-2020s, issuing a request for information on a prospective order for 29 rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The French government is under investigation for a possible violation of U.S. export control terms after a cache of Javelin missiles originally delivered to France were discovered inside a Libyan rebel compound, a State Department official said on July 10.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Bulgaria’s Council of Ministers has given the green light to the procurement of F-16 Block 70s from the U.S.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission spacecraft initiated a three-day attempt late July 9 to collect a subsurface sample of Ryugu.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
British defense ministers are hopeful that issues dogging the reliability and serviceability of the UK’s A400M airlifter fleet will be solved by the third quarter of 2020.
Defense

India’s defense research agency recently conducted four successful tests of the Nag anti-tank guided missile, moving closer to its induction into the country’s military.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The USAF continues to defend its middle-tier acquisition practices strategy for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared missile warning satellite.
Defense