Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Lee Hudson
A new U.S. airborne mine countermeasures capability entered the Baltic Sea for the first time during an annual NATO military exercise led by U.S. Naval Forces Europe.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
France’s Safran and Germany’s Diehl have agreed to work together to develop a small, lightweight tactical air-to-ground weapon: the Hussar.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has partnered with Embraer to offer a low-cost Airborne Early Warning (AEW) radar platform.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
NASA is hunting for more partners for its Artemis program that aims to land humans on the Moon in 2024.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon Missile Systems and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems have unveiled a partnership to co-develop a scramjet-powered hypersonic missile.
Defense

By Guy Norris
UAS specialists General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has packaged control elements developed for its MQ-9B and earlier UAVs into an enhanced command and control capability.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Safran Helicopter Engines has achieved European Aviation Safety Agency certification of the Arrano turboshaft for Airbus’ new H160 twin-engine medium helicopter.
Defense

By Bill Carey
The electronically steered phased-array RDR-84K detects weather phenomena and can simultaneously scan and receive radar returns from aircraft, ground vehicles, buildings and people.

By Lee Hudson
The DOD's chief weapons buyer is using her time at the Paris Air Show to speak with European industry and government officials on the unintended consequences of not providing U.S. defense contractors access to joint European Union programs.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The company wants to resurrect a long-abandoned plan to install external fuel tanks under the wings of the conventional takeoff-and-landing variant.
Defense

By Bill Carey
SB-S will enable an aircraft to off-board operational information drawn from Avionica’s wireless data collection and transmission devices, which provide access to flight information wherever the aircraft is operating around the world.
Defense

By Adrian Schofield
The trials are based on the DroScan system developed by ST Engineering.

By Marhalim Abas
The Indonesian Air Force has introduced two new transport squadrons to the country’s most eastern provinces.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
The Philippines Air Force (PAF) has commissioned a simulator to train its pilots to fly Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) FA-50 light fighters.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon completed a nearly yearlong series of operational test drops of the all-weather StormBreaker glide bomb from the Boeing F-15E in May, the company said.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace is looking to accelerate the development of its indigenous fighter aircraft, TF-X, in an attempt to fly as early as 2025.

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force intends to purchase 20 to 30 Kratos XQ-58A Valkyries for an extended experimentation campaign, and may launch a program of record in fiscal 2021.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
France, Germany and Spain have taken the next tentative steps toward the development of a pan-European Future Combat Air System (FCAS).
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Disagreements between France and Germany over exports of jointly manufactured defense equipment could halt plans to jointly develop a new combat aircraft before they even begin, a senior Airbus official has warned.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Six years since Finmeccanica (now Leonardo) first touted its M-345 High Efficiency Trainer proposal in Paris, the company has finally brought the first prototype to the Paris Air Show.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
As Osiris-Rex travels closer towards Bennu, the spacecraft’s suite of scientific instruments will gather imagery to generate global maps, contributing to an ongoing evaluation of where best to touch down briefly to gather a sample of soil and rock.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s Rheinland Air Service (RAS) has debuted its maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare conversion of the ATR-72 turboprop regional airliner for the first time here at the Paris Air Show, being held June 17-23.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin’s top F-35 executive doubled down on a commitment to reduce the cost to operate the stealth aircraft each hour by 43% within six years.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The French Air Force carried out their first training sorties on its new fleet of Pilatus PC-21 advanced turboprop trainers June 4.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin has revamped a seven-year-old concept for a maritime patrol variant of the C-130 to refocus it as a mission kit that can be retrofitted on existing or new-build aircraft.
Defense